Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-12-12 | Page 8 | Gives Reasons for Underworld

Gives Reasons For FOl Underworld I Editor The Telegram Why J Is an underworld I That Indeed Is a a. timely timely question question that Is difficult to answer r. r The The Telegrams Telegram's editorial on the subject raised a 3 number of interesting and enlightening nl points which J ad me meto meto to make comment I In II- its efforts to enforce law a 10 police lie 0 department necessarily deals with two elements clements One is tho aver average v rago r- r ago ago age cl a class sn ss' ss of people l even evi as as you you or orI orr r I wh who who- unwittingly or otherwise ma may violate ordinances ordinances' meant for for common common cornmon com corn mon safety such as as' the ordinary traffic code The other Is li the element elemont ele ele- mont ment that is in organized and I premeditated pro pre r 1 meditated war ar against tho the law Jaw e en enforcers en- en forcers bC because of or the livelihood derived front from it It follows that of ot the two el elements ele ments meats one ono one is mu much li the the easl easier r todeal to todeal deal with tho the former former- The luckless individual who parks his car too long Jong ong who ignores nores a a 1 re red reI traffic light or exceeds s thirty miles an hour Inan in inan inan an effort to get somewhere in a hurry lurry Is fa far easier prey for tor the tile arm of ot the law than the uie individual engaged in an established calling that is In hi direct conflict with law lawand arid and order B In hi mind let Jet us note comp comparative efforts of a a. p police do to deal with these op op- op- op elements Wo We may nay take tako Salt Sal tako's ik s 's public safety department because be Causo cause cuso of the present situation and bec because s it itis is different from different from rom no othel city's dep department in this respect t. t Uniformed patrolmen in ill large number patrol tho the streets dally daily and nightly Their Their- efforts corts are confined almost entirely to checking checking- f for r vi vio- vio lations of traffic ordinances TheiR Theli h heaviest st routine ro Une duty is marking out small tags arid and nd leaving them themon on automobile windshields True at Uin times s the they act act- in emergencies and andl inay may engage o in a gun gunfight fight or a a scuffle but these instances are few and far tar between Automotive men cruise the streets on motorcycles or In Inc c cars rs Their ef efforts forts torts too are aro ire directed largely 1 against the tho former class clas of ot law violator though of ot course they sometimes make arrests of ofa a dl different dir dif fe ferent nature I Compare these forces with the ones that are assigned to vice vico and crime of ot the th aggravated arty Va-tv ty Thero There is no unrelenting for violations Spasmodic raids aro made accounts aro are given in the newspapers Arrests are few and convictions fewer e er One Ono 11 has lias s but to glance over a police c calendar lendar to feel teel this point strike home Each day tho majority o of at cases on Call are aro those of ot th the the- former class But surely there are area areas areas a as man many many- If IC not more violations being committed by denizens of the word underworld which is peopled by a aiace alaCe arace race laCe all its O own n The former class of ot law violator l takes lakes kes his his his' medicine In lii court like a sport The latter flees to a mouthpiece mouth piece and hides behind it Its Us skirts while tho the mouthpiece in court pictures hi his client as a a persecuted innocent person who has been preyed upon by the police pollee And In more cases than is believable is 15 successful H. H D. D ItA R. R A AI