Review: Murder at Belly Butte
| Published date | 01 July 1931 |
| Date | 01 July 1931 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X3100400329 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS 479
The
Chicago Police is exceptional in entrusting the investigation of
complaints against the rank and file to a small corps of civilian inspectors,
whose posts
'are
not considered to be highly attractive.' Each district
(corresponding approximately to our Metropolitan Police Divisions) is a
sort of Police Department on its own, with the Commissioner a remote
figure who must be consulted only in unusual cases.
The
Committee are of opinion that there has been much wilful suppres-
sion of crime reporting.
The
scales of salary for the Chicago Police, and indeed in the majority
of American Police Forces, do not appear to be much above the level of the
cost of bare existence,
but
the pension system is said to be liberal according
to prevailing standards.
The
Committee say that so long as the familiar relationship between
politics, the police and the criminal element continues to prevail, effective
leadership will not be secured.
'It
will be necessary to cut deeply before
the cause of present inefficiency and corruption can be removed.' All said
and done, however, prohibition
remains-and
while it does, must not
political corruption and gangster rule continue?
MURDER
AT BELLY
BUTTE.
By
T.
MORRIS
LONGSTRETH
and
HENRY
VERNON.
(D. Appleton &Co., London, and Century Co., New York.)
Price 10/6 and $4.
THEauthors of this book will need no introduction to readers of The
Police
Journal.
Their
articles on Police work in Canada have been collected into
book form and make a very readable volume.
The
stories are illustrated.
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