Show GLORIFYING CROOKS relief monetary monetary mone- mone from unemployment P. P tary tan standards and world questions of high Importance Pr President Hoover struck at atthe atthe atthe the root of crime expansion crime exP when he talked to the national convention of police ponce chiefs ch in Florida The growing disrespect for law has become be- be come conie the mainspring of a misconceived no notion notion no- no tion In a large portion of the public mind that certain types of criminals a are e rn more re or orless orless or orl l less ss heroic They are glor glorified fled accordingly and given no end of adulation by misguided I mortals who wl-o evidently do not p pause use to weigh harmful effects What President Hoover tried S to do in his nis shift In public address was to bring about a sentiment from the criminal to the police mars marshaling aUng t behind the law law enforcement agencies a stron strong support If this cart cari be beacco acco accomplished the picture will take on an en entirely entirely entirely en- en different aspect for It Is only with powerful public sentiment backing the police I that crime may be check checked d. d The general condition of which the president lent dent spoke Is found In grave detail In every city of any consequence e. e Criminals have become defiant of the law bec because use the police organization has lias permitted itself to become pot potted ed with politics and therefore weakened in Its offensive against outlawry T The e average police officer takes his Job Seriously until it becomes obvious that a powerful pressure is 15 exerted from above to vitiate his efforts In a small way this be becomes be- be comes apparent in hi the fixing of minor c cases ses through political influence in a larger sense the fixing involves ves a co coalition of politicians criminal lawyers rs and spineless Judges Bac Back Backof Backof of it all Is a pret pretentious def defense nse fund raised by the criminal guild The honest police officer regards the thc criminal as hi his natural enemy The policeman policeman police police- man inan usually In uniform is at all aU times at a disadvantage In contact with gunmen and gangsters The Th officer is constantly s subject t to the surprise of ot concealed weapons while the policeman known to b be armed is Isa a ready target S The Th people have It within their power to rid Id the p police ce department of crooked politics to sever the illicit relationship between the u underworld d and the politicians to place conscionable conscionable con- con judges judgeson on the bench and arid to he hearten the entire police system by restoring honesty and sincerity to the task of ot law enforcement The president sees clearly that crime will willbe willbe willbe be checked when the police have the vigilant vigilant vigilant lant universal backing of public opinion the implacable support of prosecuting authorities and the courts |