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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26TH, 1921.

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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN Mr. Fosdick shows that the negroes, and

AMERICA,

SOME STARTLING FACTS.

"ÍFROM A CORRESPONDENT TO “ TĘS DAILY TELEGRAPH."

some of the aliens and

persons of alien origin, contribute a higher percentage of crimes and misdeineandars, than the pirely English-speaking sections, This foreign and coloured element, with its traditions and habits of a lower civili, sation, and with its diversity of lang- unges, is more difficult for the police, to deal with an control than the homes geneous multitude in a town or conuiry. district of Western Europe.

Mary kindly and buiune citizens of the United States are disturbed by the condition of Ireland. From the accounts furnished by an enterprising Press largely under Irish or anti-English in fluences, they assume that hardly ang man

However, Mr. Fosdick does not suggest can call his life his own in that unrestful that the alien factor is the sole island, and that almost everybody there cause the high criminality rate. He goes in fear of assassination or outrage, admits frankly that the native-born It may console them, or perhaps depress Americas criminn of Anglo-Saxon " them farther, to reflect that any private dessent contributes substantially to the individual, not actually a member of the tall he says, the offences of armed forces of the uation, is much des or foreign" and coloured races were likely to die by viclence in Ireland than stricken from the calculation, our crime he is in the United States of America cord of Western Europe. He thinks the record would still greatly exceed the re- Crimes of violence, in proportion to the population, are many times more mane.the task of the police is rendered harder rous in the United States than they are a certain tendency among Americans in Ireland, or in England, France, Belo tolerate and excuse, if not actually to gium, Sweden, Italy, or any other Ekindliness and good unture, the temper cummit, violent crime. With all its pean country, except Russia. Add the proportion of undetected and unpunished crimes is greater still

four communities contains a strong stening of violäner. We condong violence and shirk its punishment."

We lack a high instinct for order. There in mischievous force in the United States probably more undisciplined, egotistic, that in any country of first rauk in the world." This is a weighty indictment which a foreigner might hesitate to re- produce if it were not framed, by an ledge of the fiets und a sense of respon American citizen, who writes with know. sihility...

CRIME AND THE LAW COURTS.

This is not a question of opinion; it is one of arithmetic. The facts and Egures are tabulated and set forth by American writer. Mr. Raymond B. Fox- dick, in a pamphlet lately published by the Century Company, of New York. The author is recognised authority on American police systefna, and has also carefully examined those of Europe; having had special facilities placed at his disposal by Scotland Yard, and the corresponding departments in Paris, Bome, Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna, and He also believes that the punishment other capitals. He is a cautious, imparand prevention of crime are much in tial investigator, and his statistics and been by the procedure of the American deductions can be accepted with confid tribunals, and prosecuting authorities. ence. They are surpring, and even The police, he says, are not properly. startling: for they reveal the prevalence supported by the Courts. The legal of what one might without much exag-system, with its red tape and technicali geration call a permanent orgy of crime ties. is fantastically employed to aid in the chief centres of population in the the criminal. The police may catch a United States," and they show that even

"crook," but they always feel that some in these post-war days our own criminsi sharp, legal trick will be used to take record is by comparison strangely favour. him out of their hands,... The criminal Law of America is a game in which the defendant is given every chance to es If the figures were not drawn from un-cupe, fair or unfair, while every possible impenchable official sources, they would obstacle is placed in the way of the pro- seem incredible. They indicate a consecution. A prominent member of the trast which is simply amazing. Greater Philadelphia Bar has said that when London in 1910 had, nine premeditated criminals have money enough to employ murders. Chicago had 105. But, the the most able counsel, and to take advan- Iatter urban area contains only about take of every delay and technicality one-third the population of the former available they practically never are con If Chicago were as large as London, itvicted, Thus, in Oregon, in one year would have presumably 315 murders per forty-six perrons

were arrested for annum. In other words, thirty-five | homicide. Only three were convicted, Chicagoans end their lives by deliberate and only one of murder in the frst de homicide for every one single Londoner gree. In IBIS it is calculated that there who meets his death that way. In one were 7,047 culpable homicides" in the year Chicago recorded twenty more murnited States, and only eighty-five of the ders than the whole of England and murderers were executed. In England Wales, with a population äfteen, jizes and Wales Slty-three persons were tried larger,

salon murder "blurges, Twenty-eight of the It may be thought that Chicago is caused were adjudged insane and con- exceptionally burdened with the criminal fined: ten were sequitted: fifteen were element. But it is no worse than other sentenced to death. The contrast is suf great American towns, and better thanfciently striking-

able.

SURPRISING CONTRAITS.

some. New York, in 1917 and 1918, yield. Another point made is that the "weak ed six times more homicides than Lonsentimentality of public opinion gives don, Glasgow and Philadelphia

every, temptation to magistrates and

are

about the same,size, but in, three years juries to treat certain classes of Glasgow was the scene at only thirty criminals with indulgence. Prosecuting eight homicides, against the 281 provided attorneys declare that it is almost im- by the Qunker City" St. Louis is possible to secure the conviction of a nearly as large as Liverpool, and has woman for murder, no matter how con- eight times as many murders. We think clusive, the evidence. The killing of a of Los Angeles as a delightful, busy plès-gru is a comparatively safe amuse- sure resort, a city of palms, flowers, sunent.Ifugger kills

white, man, shine, and cinemas. It is all that. But that's murder. If a white man kik a while it fleets the time pleasantly it con- nigger, that's justifiable homicide. If n trives to perpetrate two more murders nigger kills another nigger, that's one annually than our grim old London, lese nigger." That is how the case was though it is scarcely one-twentieth as put, brutally, but with substantial necu. big.

racy, by the chief of the detective depart- Nor is the American superiority in meat in a largo Southern city. serious crime confined to assassination. Burglary is said to be on the increase

**GUNMEN" FOR EXPORT.” Whatever may be the explanation, the

in Great Britain, but it will have a long facts are indisputable. There is more way to travel before it approaches the violent and unpunished cripie in Ame- American level. In 1015 New York City ries than in any other civilised country. had approximately eight times as, many The question of finding a remedy is one burglaries, as London, and nearly twice for Americans themselves, and foreigners as many as all England and Wales. are not concerned with it. But the sub- Chicago beats Greater London in bur- ject has a certain international interest. glaries by a yearly margin varying from The professional assassins and outrage- 806 to 3.400. Detroit and Cleveland, amongers of the Translatautic towns are Seventh or an eighth the size of London, exported like other American products. are well ahead in the annual burglary The gunmen" of Chicago and New count. In robberies other than by house- York took a hand in the Bolshevik-re- breaking London in 1919 had sixty-three, volition, and helped the Lenin and England and Wales 100, and New York Trotsky group to terrorise Petrograd sad 840. The highly respectable and genteel Moscow. It is known that a number of capital-city, Washington, D.C., managed these persons have descended upon Ire- to get in four times as many robberies land, and have borne an active part in as London. Cleveland, a prosperous, in the irregular civil war. No doubt thei jand manufacturing town, in 1910 report callous cruelty of the Sinn Féin rebels. ed thirty-one robberies lazode as well at the executive ability they bava in Liverpool, with all its wharsus and often, displayed. has been largely due to shipping and alums and sailors' boarding the assistance and inspiration of these houses.

"trained experts in crime. Irish or alieri' Why is it that life and property are rican practical energy, and they go about

by origin, they have acquired the Ame so much less secure in these American their murderous work with a ruthless towns than in the far less wealthy, Jess scientific efficiency which renders them comfortable, dad, as it might stem, less more formidable than any body of re- progressive and civilised European com-volutionaries whom European authorities munities? One might put it down to the have hitherto encountered. inefficiency of the police, bat this Mr. Fosdick denies. He says that, given the conditions prevailing in New York, Chicago, or Philadelphia, the Metro-

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