Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gold Eagle Line, 1906. Here one sees plushy opulence indirect and each visitor must enter through a golden Arc de Trlomphe, from which dangles a heavy medallion. Young Guy comes gleefully in to tell his hated failure that the scuttled ship has been said vaged, and the crime thereby disclose Gold Eagle tries to reason, but failling that he invokes the Deity to descend upon on this wayward Absalom. At the dramatic moment, Heaven responds with a beautifully-handled earthquake, in which father and son perish as the Gold Eagle is rent in twain...
Urging an improvement in personnel as the foundation of more efficient policing, the current volume published by the Harvard Crime Survey strikes at the roots of the modern problem of organized vice. However, the successful capture of public enemies is of no practical consequence unless it is possible at the same time to revolutionize the present practices of criminal prosecution...
...current struggle between the officers of justice and the organized forces of crime, the local police departments, ham-strung by the venality of city bosses and the inferior talents of their men, are unable to function with the essential efficiency and coordination. Offering a meagre salary and little hope of advancement without political influence, the police forces are compelled to recruit from the lower strata of society...
...Civil Service examination make the possibilities of good selection extremely dubious. The efficiency with which the 400 federal officers have mowed down the public enemies during the past few months is a striking illustration of the value of a group of men trained in the necessary elements of crime detection, chosen for service by an impartial commission, and stimulated by the prospects of rapid promotion and increases in pay. Yet any reform in the police agencies must be accompanied by similar reformation of the practices of the criminal prosecutor. This officer has practically sovereign, discretionary power in determining which...
...annals of modern crime are nothing but ugly tales of the inefficiency of local policing and the political intrigue of prosecution. Establishment of a scientific personnel department and elimination of political pressure from the realms of law and order are necessary pre-requisites to efficient criminal warfare...