Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-04-19 | Page 10 | How To Reduce Crime Wave

HOW ip TO REDUCE CRIME WAVE CRIME WAVE 1 Noting the fact tact that the th crime wave Js Is I not decreasing the Wall WallStreet WallStreet Street Journal suggests that a gr greater ater certainty o 0 ot punishment would see seve to check the tb criminally Inclined and It makes make this observation tion 5 Grime Crime Crim was rampant in England a century ago aio when when people ben people could be III hanged for theft of property ox- ox cx the value of ot forty shillings Penal Penalties lies were reduced although not to our ridiculous extent It was Sl Si Sir Robert nobert Peels Peel's efficient police pollee force torce replacIng the th decrepit watch watch- watchmen Bow street mon men men and the corrupt runners runner who r reduced with crime crime operation operation co-operation of o the courts Apart from crimes of ot passion indicating the trIm crim criminal no inherent moral warp inal is the th product of environment Ho He takes take what be h thinks Is the line of st kl least resistance and he regards regard steady work ork as the line of ot most resistance rE New Nw York City being at least 40 10 per cent thu chances against arrest are any thing from two up to five to one oneTh The chances chance for conviction are in are Inthe tb the criminals criminal's favor tavor especially If Khe he can get a smart lawyer lawer The chances of ot reversal on technical points all help him while parole parol boards are devoted to 10 of o seeing that he doesn't doesn't serve his sentence An American judge Is not allowed to Interpret the evi ev ecce to the th Jury or tell them thia when he thinks think a witness Is lying al though that is exactly where his ex- ex ex ex would be b useful That Is Isone oue of his bis duties in the English courts It Is i almost humiliating to consider the th preposterous ways our judges hav hae found of o tying each others other's hands T There ere Is not a word here against a the unstrained quality ot of mercy or the th humane view of oth the Ibe criminal But the great hu humanitarian found that certain pun punishment was the th truest kindness 00 op