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Show Gans of New York Kg Policemen and Pol-Kpg Pol-Kpg With Grafting. for SUCH CONDITION Kg and Govern me nt Ktion for Social Evil Menicdy Proposed. !l iflro lo The Tribune. lisK. May 13. Thdt the police Etliticlans collect $2,500,000 a En and blcakmail from unfor-E'eS unfor-E'eS wfis the Ulrect charge t by Howard S. Gnns, former Bjitrfct attorney of New York Efcai J. Travers Jerome. He kj4 there have been police KTlhls city where the graft jaunted to $30,000 a month. EricSp bcrwoeii the police ft of brothels." said Mr. Gans. jstrt tlgurc of speech. IlivlnB. shrieking met. Lirees of wholesale graft and iviit given as an argument in foe licensing ami government t the social evil which Mr. W In a speech before the con-the con-the reform of criminal law Kurt held at Columbia univer-h univer-h today," said Mr. Gans. "the i.ir. this cltv in its most ob-i ob-i forms rather than in Its less ib!e forms. The horrors of the n traffic are unchecked by the itlcli Is legitimately to be de-iiaj de-iiaj expected of us. No law 'tolerable berore the world" can Ktttnt laws against the social iot and shall not be enforced. Muence of this is that the public e it undermined in the sense liiiisatlon, blackmail develops. (.deprlnient is demoralized, a in Income Is established be-e be-e kwpcrs f disorderly resorts fikt anil laws are not enforced r Inherently enforceable, face captain asks himself wliw 5 enforce the law if nobody inforced and why he should not fids manner The effect of this the rank and tile of the dels de-ls contagious. In the face of ilem who and what is the po-! tktloncr? His present difficulty 2(fcribcd as impossibilities, yet id police commissioners say in Utir jobs would have no more ordinary administrative difficul-irere difficul-irere not for the absurd laws ritlllns and the social evil, if the prices we pay in this iae laws is the demoralization f our picked men and the cored cor-ed essential Insubordination of !, department." |