Show 11 Curb Crime by t Stopping Sale J 1 of Fire Arms Arm De Declaring that the tho pistol serves no useful purpose In the community today the committee committee on law enforcement enforcement en en- enforcement en- en included in its recommendations recommendations submitted to the American Bar Dar association at San Francisco one OnD one for for the prohibition of the manu mann manufacture facture and sale of or pistols and of f cartridges or ammunition designed to be be used in iii them save as such manufacture shall be nece necessary sary fer governmental and official use un l r r. proper legal regulation and control We find that more than ninety per cent of ot the crimes in this cou try are committed by the use of pistols pis pia- I tole continued the report of the committee of which Judge William WilliamB B D. D Swaney of Chattanooga Tenn was chairman We find that the laws oils aws prohibiting the carrying of firearms or deadly weapons are In Ineffective in- in effective in effective In fact that they work to the he benefit of the criminal rather than the law-abiding law citizen Other members of the committee were Judge Marcus Kavanaugh Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- c cago a g o fr Governor Charles S. S Whitman New York Wade Vade H. H Eli EHg Washington D. D C. C and Charles W. W Farnham of St. St Paul Tho The Crime Wave ravo The criminal situation In the United States so far as crimes of ot violence are concern concerned d Is wor wore wor-e e ethan than that of ot any other civilized country country coun coun- tr try the report said Here there theo Is less respect for for law From all available sources of Information we ve estimate that there were more than unlawful homicides last year in inthis n this country that in 1920 there occurred occurred occurred oc oc- oc- oc not less than such homicides homi hom- and that in no year during the thelast thelast thelast last ten years did the number fall below below below be be- low In other words dur l g the last ten years no less than thau of or our citizens have perished by persons persons per per- sons sons by the pistol or the knife orby or orby orby by somo some other unlawful and deadly deady instrument Burglaries have hate increased in this tills country during tho the last ten years year 1200 2 0 0 per cent Deliberate murder burglary and robbery will seldom be attempted unless the criminal is armed In European European European Eu Eu- countries the criminals as arule a arule rule are not armed On the other hand in crimes which indicate the dishonesty of the people such as larceny extortion counterfeiting forgery fraud and amI other crimes of swindling a c compari son of conditions demonstrates that the morals of this country are better better better bet bet- ter than in to any other of the large countries s of the world J Cleans are Inadequate It n is our united opinion that the means provided in the United States Staten for coping with crimes and criminals are today neither adequate nor efficient efficient efficient effi effi- for example First we find that the parole and probation laws as administered very generally fail to accomplish the purposes for which the laws were designed and weaken the administration administration ad ad- ministration of criminal justice We VIe recommend that tha t first offenders only should be eligible for probation and we believe too too that neither probation nor parole should be per ner- i I those convicted of homic homicide de burglary rape or highway robbery I Se Second ond we find that more than 90 per cent of the murders in this country are committed by the use of pistols Third we find the causes for delay in ill criminal cases so varied and the conditions so differing that we hesitate to make specific Dilatory motions and many other causes for delay all accrued accrued ac ac- accrued ac- ac to the benefit of th the er We Ve recommend that every state be given ever every right to appe appeal l now enjoyed by a defendant except defendant except from a verdict of not pat guilty and we recommend that the prosecutor in n a criminal trial shall have the right to call the attention of the jury to tho the fact that the defendant dant has failed to contradict or deny testimony offered offered of of- by the prosecution ft Broaden States States' Rights We recommend that the state be given the right to amend the indictment indictment indict ment upon v proper oper terms In matters I of form 7 H 5 ve t C L- L recommend mat there should be but one appeal from a judgment of conviction in iii the trial court We recommend that there be a en enacted 1 i- i I acted legislation limiting the time during which judges or or courts may hold under advisement dilatory motions mo mo- made in n criminal trials th that l at l the expiration of such time without action such a motion shall be ed to be denied Fourth we find that in some somo of the states the jury is the final judg r both of the law and the facts We Ve believe that such a condition is absolutely absolutely ab ab- subversive of a government go of law and we recommend the r repeal ro- ro peal of such statutes Fifth we find in various jur juris jurs- 3 dictions glaring abuses in the matter of bail both in the amounts amount imposed ed and In the sufficiency of ot offered we find that further legis- legis UE E ec UP e rt rte fl 11 I t J lotion lation should be enacted by the congress congress congress con con- gress to punish and prevent lynching lynching lynching lynch lynch- ing and mob violence Seventh we find that more stringent laws limiting and controlling controlling controlling control control- control control- ling Immigration should be enacted and enforced Eighth we find that the bill bilI no nou no pending in the congress increasing the number of or United States district judges and co conferring powers upon the chief justices and senior circuit judges to have supervision over the tile work of the courts and see that the are kept clear lear should be enacted en en- acted Ninth no meritorious case whether civil or criminal that i is cognizable in the courts of the country country coun coun- try ought to fo be denied the thel service of an able courageous and loyal ad- ad ad And no man or woman oman however humble ought to be able to say in ariy any American community that justice is too too expensive for the poor We Ve therefore urge that in every community the members of oC this association volunteer to aid without without- fee fee the worthy poor who are bt being ng oppressed defrauded defraud d or or otherwise wise otherwise wronged and who have not the means to employ counsel Tenth first offenders must be segregated from veteran criminals for the jails throughout t the e land to today today today to- to day are breeding places for crime and the young and thoughtless who may often be reclaimed are taught by professional criminals to scorn the restraints of society and in this connection we may well consider the extension of psychopathic laboratories laboratorIes laboratories lab lab- oratories established as adjuncts to 4 the criminal courts 7 1 0 |