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Show Watch Out Go-Go's, Etc. Vice Squad: Protectors of Morality, But Who Protects the Vice Squad? no minors were watching her not be illegal. No S.L.C. Deviates On the whole, the plan seems to be working. Salt Lake mommas mom-mas can rest assured their kids not to mention their husbands are not being indecently in-decently exposed at. Consequently, Conse-quently, no sex-crazed sons and husbands roam the streets of our fair city. On the other hand, if there's anything to the view that association as-sociation with low types and watching lewd displays tends to rot minds, hadn't we better start worrying about our boys on the vice squad? Maybe we should stop trying try-ing so hard to see to it that everyone is virtuous and pay more attention to the mental health of the poor people who must enforce our laws. Lord knows they must be having a rough time of it. For example, undercover men for the hotel raids have to be recruited from as far away as Orem. Are we going to spread this evil to all corners of the state, or shall we just let those few people interested in that sort of thing do it and be done with by Harold Mailer The Salt Lake City Police Department, limited in size but quite competent, has one division for which the mommas mom-mas of Salt Lake can be thankful. thank-ful. This is the vice squad. These minions of the law in civilian clothes are charged with the responsibility of sneaking about Salt Lake City i seeing to it that no one is being dirty. Control "Profession" One of their most important j. jobs is to control the spread of the oldest profession. By dint of weekly raids on a west-side west-side hotel, they manage to keep most of the shady ladies in town either waiting trial or , in jail. To aid them in their efforts in this particular area, they recently got the City Commission Com-mission to pass a law saying , the chicks could be arrested . for "unnecessarily" walking on the streets after dark. Keep 'em Covered Another ordinance assiduously assiduous-ly enforced by boys with hidden hid-den badges is the one which , says go-go dancers must keep the more obvious parts of their bodies decently covered. This t, ordinance has a rather inter-esting inter-esting history. It was passed at the urging of Police Chief ., Dewey J. Fillis, who said it ., was needed to protect the mi-l mi-l nors of Salt Lake City from ,, being exposed to indecent ex-, ex-, posure. No one bothered to : point out to the chief or to the commission that they already had an ordinance, already i being enforced by the vice .; squad, which made it illegal for minors to be in beer joints with go-go girls in the first place. So now it works something .,' like this: The vice squad j creeps into the local beer hall and sits at a quiet table from which they can observe the go-go girl. They watch a couple cou-ple of dances to make sure she isn't being illegal. If she is being illegal, they watch her for several minutes to make certain she is being really illegal, il-legal, then they arrest her. If she isn't being illegal, they check ID cards to make sure |
