Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-11 | Page 4 | Cost of Crime

J j COST E OF CRIME f A of the cost of combating crime in Salt Lake shows that every man wo- wo yuan luan and arid child under the federal census in inthis inthis inthis this city pays and and every taxpayer Annually J While the cost is figured against the expense ex ex- ex- ex I pense Vense ense o of the police department and criminal less the amount of revenue it may be I timely to explain that a considerable portion of this not segregated segregate in the report of City Auditor Nicholls goes toward the suppression pf of traffic offenders and the regulation of traffic in the city The cost of crime itself cannot be determined determined determined deter deter- mined for br there must be included the loss of things of value and damage to property But the cost of regulating traffic might easily be determined by checking the expense of maintaining maintaining main main- taming the traffic squad against the amount pf revenue in the way of fines Whatever the crime war costs it is too much The taxpayer who has to pay each year his share of the e expense Pense may easily whittle whittle whittle whit whit- tle down his pro rata by observing the laws and nd using his good influence to see that everyone within the sphere of it does the same thing That goes for traffic quite as readily asfor as asfor asor for or burglary