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Show v v ..BK.B. ment meted out by the courts. The whole procedure is rather discouraging to enforcement officers. offic-ers. On numerous occasions officers offic-ers will do a splendid job in the apprehension and arrest of the violators, only to see their efforts come to naught, once the case is in the hands of the judiciary. A fine of $10 for an offense of this kind is sheer mockery. Perhaps Per-haps the hands of tlie judge were tied by the limitations of the citation cita-tion which read, "Failure to keep a car under control." If such limitations lim-itations exist, they should be removed re-moved at the first legislative opportunity. op-portunity. To continue to handle persistent teen-age offenders with ldd gloves, after repeated offenses, is one of the surest ways to assist as-sist them on the road to a criminal career. The early morning Labor Day Main Street automobile crash has come to the usual conclusion. The pole-shearing episode, which attracted at-tracted several pajama-clad spectators, spec-tators, has apparently culminated in the "wrist slapping" action predicted pre-dicted by this column some weeks ago. According to an officer who assisted as-sisted in the arrest, the teen-age driver of the careening vehicle, has been arraigned before the District Dis-trict Juvenile Court, and fined $10.00 The amount being promptly paid by his father. Information supplied by the officer of-ficer also indicates that the offender of-fender had received his driver's license just a few months prior to the Labor Day incident. At the time of the Main Street crash, the youth was reportedly without an operators permit, since the same had been revoked after a previous violation. The point in rehashing the sordid sor-did details of this incident is to again point out the woeful disparity dispar-ity between the seriousness of traffic offenses, and the punish- In the interest of conservation of human life, persistent offenders of this type should be restrained definitely and permanently from operating a motor car on the public pub-lic thoroughfares. There is nothing noth-ing too drastic about this it is just plain common sense. So long 'til Friday. |
