Show 1 Overlooking Crime Jt i t crusades against liquor and gam gani- i j Ambling I bling are not cal calculated to to render t the e fullest degree of public protection While r police department i is busy rounding up fafe bootleggers r and their customers so far t V tp possible sible burglars and thieves make merry i rith the property of oJ the citizenship We Ve cani can- can i complain compla n that the officials of the police a department are are re inactive for it H comes to us ff that at the chi chief f exe executives are on the job day a and nd ld night The difficulty appears to be that is more concerned with ith oft of- of department Mr t Tenses s s against the dry laws than with th the rimes crimes of those who seek their plunder at l point of a gun it J Hardly a night passes that a daring holdup is not recorded and sneaking burglary 4 or r a 1 that does not show a night hardly a passes number of arrests arrests arrests' of the cal so-cal called so-called ed moral i offenders Re Records of f arrests rr of burglars b and g aymen I are are not so f frequent quent ht and so we must ril nii conclude that this gentry is out to help th clean up P. P th the town At least the existing g current activities indicate that moral wave affords a 13 certain amount of seI se- se to the old older r type of f criminal crimin t. t Officers l I ho ire axe are chasing m cannot be chasing and thieves at the same time J perhaps the police department is not ent en- en f t r ely Jo to blame jor tor the c condition ion So many and ordinances have been e enacted acted p petty tty la laws laV laVand If for or and against against the individual that officialS official r attention is diverted into many channels i The s flie lie public naturally expects ts a thorough enforcement enforcement en- en for ement of ot all of these laws Nevertheless ahe first duty pf of the public safety department would seem seem to lo be to rid the city of the desperate desperate element which is a real menace to life and property Police officers cannot render render ren- ren B der r the best public protection when the public S. S appears to tb c consider the arrest of a aJ J bootlegger more important than the capture r OFa fa a burglar or or robber Let us enforce all of r Tour our l laws ws to tp th the best of our ability ity but let first those that affect they the us u-co u concentrate centia on y Citizenship as as asia ia a whole A |