Show TRAFFIC SQUAD COSTS EXCEED CASH RETURNS From Revenue Standpoint Enforcement Enforcement Enforcement En En- Fails to Pay for Itself By BILL McDOUGALL Salt Lake City was more than 25 in uin the red for 1934 because Ih the city maintains a traffic police detail one Forty-one persons met violent death in Salt Lake Ci City y during 1934 despite its traffic police detail Docs Does traffic enforcement pa pay When books were balanced a at end it was easily seen that tha from a revenue viewpoint Salt Lake Lak City's traffic police ce detail far from paid for itself It went more tha than in the hole What is the answer More enforcement enforcement en en- reply police Their reply traffic survey studies show seems to tobe tobe tobe be a correct one Friday The Telegram completed analysis of a state t. t tax n commission commissio traffic survey compiled by V. V H H. Coombs statistician The survey covered covered cov coy ered the first 11 months of or 1934 I It analyzed 1892 traffic accidents and fatalities their causes circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances and considered possible reme reme- dies The outstanding solution the survey survey sur sur- vey showed was more rigid more uniform more extensive traffic en en- Add more traffic police was was one of or the answers But more police cost more money Will more police pollee pay for themselves both from a revenue and a safety standpoint Did they pay for themselves In 1934 A glance at the record shows tharom that tha from rom a revenue standpoint they emphatically emphatically em em- did not pa pay for themselves them selves during 1934 in Salt Lake Cit City Here are arc the figures Fines ant and forfeitures from traffic law violators violator totaled in Salt Lake City during 1934 according to ta police cour court figures i ures Maintenance of the police traffic squad cost Salt Lake City taxpayers between and during 1934 There is a difference of ot more thai thai- there there there-a a loss Joss that sho should hould not be Why Bec Because 1 e eye we ye are undermanned because because be be- cause courts do not inflict uniform p penalties penalties- because se a the the- public seems educated to a doctrine of beat the traffic cops fix cops fix it square it-square square this tag answer police Their answers appear to be sound Police olice themselves offer possible Lions ions to that loss In Mondays Mondays Monday's Mondays Monday's Mon Mon- days day's Telegram their answers and their heir solutions will be pr presented |