Abstract

Editorials

This article presents information on the issue of civil liberty in the U.S. particularly in New York. It is that combination of official ignorance and stupidity, coupled with the belief that all officials are above and beyond the laws, which has come grievously to menace civil liberty in America. It is that phase of lawlessness which the Hoover Commission on Law Enforcement should study above all other, for more than anything else it explains the difference between the law-abiding character of the English people just now closing twenty-one prisons for lack of prisoners and the disgraceful lawlessness of the American nation. It is that official lawlessness which makes possible the third degree in almost every police station in the country; which daily results in the violation of personal rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and the hourly breaching of that document itself by city and police officials.