Show I CANADA GOOD MODEL FOR U. U 8 8 S. IN CRIME CONTROL Why Is it that Canada with a system tys 1 tem tern of crime control which conforms to the basic Ic law In the United States Statu in every fundamental keeps crime under control better than its neigh bor bar to the south It isn't our constitutional principles that are at fault say Ernest Jerome Hopkins in the Rotarian Magazine Rather its it's our institutional sloppiness ness plus our slow footed refusal to avail ourselves of certain devices in police and ana court procedure the worth of which has been abundantly established lashed in our neighbor nation and which could readily be adopted or adapted by any American state Mr Hopkins who investigated conditions con in Canada for the Wickersham Commission points out the advantages advantages advant advant- ages of the uniform criminal code for I all aU Canada which is just the re reverse reverse reo re- verse erse of the up chopped-up forty eight tate state system in the United Unite i States We find the United States he points out could have uniform laws too If Its It's Its It's a big if the It the states would all adopt the American Bar Dar Associations Association's Associations Association's tion's Model Code of Criminal dure The code is there there better better than than I any sta state code code but but nothing la Ss being done to put it over He points further to the selection of judges The remark pf one judge is typical of the Canadian attitude If I weren't life appointed hence politically politically poli poU Independent I wouldn't serve Under any election system those who bad had helped elect me would be around demanding their price If It I were an elected judge I couldn't be an honest man Strong words continues Mr Hopkins Hopkins Hop Hop- If kins but that seems the universal Canadian belief They ascribe the breakdown of justice in the United States m more more re to politicks specifically to the election of ot judges and prosecutors prosecutors tors than to anything else For a year in Canada they find excellent men to serve in these positions of prestige removed from life embodiments I ments of law But then their judges are somebody They have all but I dictatorial powers on the bench They can make rulings with firm authority for the law itself is uniform and clear They arent aren't mere mere umpires between waring attorneys |