Abstract

The Week

The article presents some evidence of imperfections of police administration in U.S. cities. In Chicago, Illinois, the revelations of a police officer whose headquarters were raided some time ago and who has become the State's chief witness in the trial of the former Chief of Police need not all be believed to leave a shocking residuum of undoubted truth. Whoever was responsible, it has been clearly shown that police promotions were sold, that graft was collected from gambling houses and other evil resorts, that the licenses of evil saloons were juggled with, and so on. In Seattle a shaking up of the police has followed hard upon the refusal of the commander at Camp Lewis to permit his troops to go to the city because of the moral dangers there.