Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-11 | Page 4 | Parasites

L driven to tor V Q and then a police pollee Judge yh r I distraction by the depredations of ot- bail ball to bond brokers issues an order designed regulate their conduct at the public safety 1 building and the city jail For a time there theres improvement and then the theold theold Us s a noticeable old system is resumed and the abuses become worse vorse than ever The bail ball bond nuisance has always been Intolerable ble It could not endure without connivance upon the part of certain members members members mem mem- bers of ot the police department who are openly friendly to certain professional bondsmen Why the professional bondsmen have any friends or allies or confederates or cappers or boosters or whatnot inside the police de department de- de can best be answered by officers who help these leeches and parasites ply their nefarious trade never has been a time when the courts and the police lacked the power to break the contact between professional bondsmen and members of the department but heretofore the matter has been handled in a kid-glove kid fashion The fact is that professional bondsmen have been permitted to engage in a mad scramble for business at the city jail not so much because of the he necessity of springIng springing spring Ing mg prisoners but in the interest of the fee ee charged If it takes an ordinance to abolish this nuisance the sooner the ordinance is passed the better