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Show 1 Y. POLICE LEADER HAS PLAN TO CUT CRIME 1 PRISONS TOO I PLEASANT IS I ENREOHT VIEW i Wants Central Bureau for Identification of Criminals CRIME WAVE PASSING Checking of Criminal Anarchy An-archy Through Immigration Immigra-tion Urged Itv I DW VRD M THIERRY NEW YORK. Aug. 21. Richard E. i-'nright police commissioner of Sew Vork. looms up as the leader In the solution of one world problem which j politics seems unlikely to hinder "to I make tho world unsafe for criminal-I criminal-I ty." "I" don't expect to s e i rime utterly ut-terly banished." he sajs." but I do see a way to cut It down 50 per cent In five years." Conunleeioner Enrlght, just back from Europe, s aer to- converted the i police authorities of six nations to his 1 Ideas, told In an Interview with NEA 1 service the program he wo I lay before a meeting ol the National Police conference con-ference which will really be international interna-tional in scope--on September 11. This Is the program: o.Nj.. National and International police co-operation on a systematic Uaiej an ' entente cordiale ln police a i fairs." TWO: A ,-cn:ral bureau under federal fed-eral auspices as a clearing house for j the Identification ol criuunhale, and I for the automatic gathering and ex-chance ex-chance or records, fingerprints and) phot -graphs. i liiiti.i.: Broadcasting ot complete i InfoniiaUonr up-to-date recordei un-1 gerprints, photographs of habitual criminals auout to be released irom I prison. ! r'OiK: An agency to combat criminal crim-inal anarch; t Id ep tab on move- i IlleUtS oT "I cOS." 11 ' : Police supervision of imml- Igratlon, to prevent International oo-lopcration. oo-lopcration. entrance or criminals and anurchists. "Crlm. is receding all over the rnnnfrv " kivs Knrirh' Indeed major crime in New Ifork alone is 20 per cent less than m IK Iff. before be-fore abnormal war conditions came. Hut we can col it more. "Too many In America think the law Is a Joke. I found England has less crime becau.se there is a well-grounded well-grounded respect for the law. But I Hunk some parus of Continental Europe Eu-rope have more crime than America, si I m. I LKJEN I Kn U l'ltlMi. "Criminals here no longer fear pun- llshment in prison, tney consider it sort of holiday 1'rlson lite Is too easy !und omfortable The prison reform foddiets have broken down respect for ' law. : That Is why 1 advocate keeping a 'closer tab on released prisoners not I to persecute them, but to belp those wio are entit'ed to help and to prevent pre-vent the Conflriried criminal from committing further crimos. "Nobody has more sympathy than I have for tho first offender. Many 'are rescued even after the second of-fenae; of-fenae; But after the third offense, a man usually Is a crook for life. ! as for the reformed ones, the po- illct' of New York have done more for ,Kr, u,fh Inl.u eX-CruuKa pioviueu im. ...v.. and helped more of th-m to go Straight than all the reform and welfare wel-fare l.-agues put together " Ml AM 111 I P IN ONillFAS ln explaining his program for a central records bureai Knrlght said It would be entirely Independent of1 any federal secret service agency, and: was not In any respect a step toward, or advocacy of, a federal police force I Senator I.llllam M. Cald.-r of New ! York, he said, had drawn a bill cm-bodying cm-bodying it. which pronably will be hatred ha-tred I In congress following Ihe National Na-tional Police conference session. -Jts Initial cost will be 1880.000 n vear with a gradual reduction each lyear," Enrighl says, "until it should eventually pay for Itself In Ihe help 'given federal agents alone. ln five I years, crime could be reduced perhaps per-haps 60 per cent, millions saved In 'property loss, nnd deaths, due to criminality crim-inality which are said to have been I So 000 last year would be reduced i tremendously." High police authorities from T.on - don and !-aris win attend the September Septem-ber conference here. Enrlght savs. and probably alSO representatives from ' B rlln. Vienna, Home, Naples and Brussels. i BtHlEAf IS CLEARING IP U SE The proposed central bureau." he .said, "would be strictly a clearing 'house, with n field force no control I no jurisdiction, With foreign co-op-ration, assurances of which I recclv- Continued on Page Two) PRISONS TOO PLEASANT IS ENRIGHT VIEW (Continued from Page One) ed while over there, it will become an International clearing house. "Checking criminal anarchy through Immigration control, Is one of the most Important phases; for most of the crime of this sort during tho last ten years. Including the Wall utrect bombtriw In which 39 were killed two years ago. has gono un- IU punished " Commissioner Enrlght, a man of 111 great bulk, with a shaggy head of curly gray hair, W45 promoted five years ago out of the ranks to the command com-mand of New York's 1 1.000 policemen. police-men. "Yes, there lo less crime generally," he said, "but bad liquor Is the caueo of many major crimes. I can't hazard haz-ard a guess what prohibition's effect will be on criminality because real prohibition has not arrived. How can It, when as, the poll of a. popular magazine says, half tho people are against it?" |