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Show 4. 7 POLICE CHIEF STARTS 1 CLEAN-UP OF CHICAGO; I POLITICIANS AID GANGS ! . , 7 By EDWAED 31. THIERRY, N. 12. A. Staff Correspondent. CHICAGO, April 20. Chief of Police Po-lice Garrity is starting out under a now police ordinance he holped to frame himself to clean up crime in Chicago, in spite of the politicians. Everybody considers the chief on six months' probation. In January, Mayor Thompson said; "If I wore chief of police I would draw a new ordinance; and if, under my ordinance, I couldn.'t suppress crlmo in aix months I would resign " Ever before the chief's eyes arc tho long rows of pictures hanging in his office of former Chicago police chiefs, with the dates showing that scarcely any lasted more than two years. Garrity, a former National Guard colonel and not a policeman, was appointed ap-pointed chief in November, Twice he and the mayor have quarreled. quar-reled. He is usually at war with Ma-clay Ma-clay Hoyno, state's attorney and archenemy arch-enemy of the mayoV. Thompson leaders lead-ers have clamored for his head se-eral se-eral times. Every now and then it li-reported li-reported Garrity will resign. ."Clean-Up" Halted. Garrity is plugging along in spite of opposition and in spite of the fact that tho police ordinance he drew is little better than the old one because of trimming in tho council. Some months ago Garrity was going to clean up the police department by dismissing six police captains. But nothing was done. It is said powerful influence stopped it. The new Chicago crime commission is seeking to aid Garrity, but Henry Barrett Chambcrlln, commission director, di-rector, agrees with tho state's attorney that Garrity is helpless. Reduction in crime pointed to by Garrity came in January, just after the commission's first annual report, showing that the record. of a murder nearly every day and a burglary, robbery rob-bery or automobile theft every 30 or 40 minutes. Police Captains' "Ring." Edwin W. Sims, president of the crime commission, says: "Tho poliCo know who the habitual criminals are. Backed up by tho prosecuting authorities ahd tho courts, there isn't a police captain in the city today who cannot reduce crime In his precinct 50 per cent in 30 days, if he wants to." A ring of police captains is credited j with being the "Invisible government" that actually runs tho Chicago police I force. State's Attorney Hoyne says there arc only three "good" police captains in Chicago. Sims and Chambcrlln blame .crinie conditions on "'business -efficiency methods used by an organization of 10,000 criminals, aided by criminal lawyers, professional bondsmen, grafting graft-ing police and crobked politicians." Last year 79 out of 167 murders were unsolved; Or '40 per cent. Burglary insurance is higher In Chi-! cago than in any other city, $27.50 per $1,000. San Francisco's 13 $22.50; New York, St Louis and Cleveland, I $19. SO; Minneapolis, Seattle. Buffalo, Cincinnati, Denver, New Orleans, Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, Milwaukee, Omaha, Salt Lake, St. Paul and Portland, $16.50, and Boston's is only $11. j Few Arc Convicted. Chief Garrity has publicly praised tho work of James Mooney, chief of detectives. Hoyne- calls him a "woodenhead." In a year the Chicago detective force arrested 43,001 persons, preferred charges against 5,026 of them, and convicted 2,649 or one out of every 17 arrested. Bond forfeitures in criminal and municipal courts In 1919 totaled $2,-209,4 $2,-209,4 97, of which only $25,000 was collected. The commission is tring to get more business men tot do jury service. T It has endorsed Sheriff Peters' policy of hanging condemned murderers be-foro be-foro public audiences as a means of "teaching a lesson of fear." oo |