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Show Governor Roosevelt on Crime Governor Roosevelt of New York : has submitted to the New York Crime Commission whereby the state would establish . a corps of highly trained criminal investigators, available at anv time, to aid law enforcement officers of-ficers in rural localities. Although every section may have adequate police protection, Governor Roosevelt says that "there remains, ! however, one other important func-tion""which func-tion""which should not properly be laid upon a force primarily designated to Rprchend criminals and preserve order""detection of a criminal in those cases where he is not caught redhanded in the act. Applicat;on of modern methods requires men who have made extensive study of the subject and have mastered an increasingly increas-ingly difficult technique." The matter of crime detection has passed far beyond the fingerprint stage. There are, according' to the Governor, "men who can, with the aid of the microscope, accurately determine de-termine whether any particular bullel has been fired from any particular .weapon the story told by every mo-tor mo-tor tire track has been carefully studied stud-ied ; the preservation and identifica-, identifica-, tion of footprints, a hundred different tell-tale signs, which would mean . nothing to the layman, stand ns a j clear trail before the eyes of these .specially trained investigators, j "That such facilities should be at i the disposal of our county shorrlfis .has seemed to be becoming increasingly increas-ingly important, owing to the growing ! disposition of the murderer in the large city to carry away the body of his victim by automobile to somr sparcely settled and desolate localitv where it is left in the hope that the local authorities will be unable tc .trace even the identity of the victim' I Governor Roosevelt's suggestion is in line with the very successful F.ne. llsh system where every community has at its disposal the experts of the j famous Scotland Yard. It goes at .crime from the right angle, that what , we need are better police me-thods anc i enforcement of the laws we now have |