Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-21
cbist Of Police Pitt Makes Rec
concentrations for Drastic
Steps in Matter.
DIAN is TO ISOLATE WOMEN.
~, 10 Have Absolute Control
chief Also Suggests Means for
Abatement of Nuisances.

rho need Of detention home for
-. and boys is emphasized in tho
s.rsl report of Chief of Police Tom
pitt presented to Mayor Bransford
night. A startling recommended
~. regarding the conrol of fallen
men by the city is also made q
.ominent part OF the report. He also
IN Tor better vagrancy ordinance.
psgarding the chiefs recommended
,,.r, for The better control OF the
anaer,yorld and it's attendant evils,
chief Pitt says
81 at the city set aside a piece of
u-,nnd of sufficient size to accommo-
es,e several hundred of the red light
1s,-ict women. Enclose same care
.,nv with high board fence; build
,c,tsges or houses to accomm odate
,bsse inmates; charge them rent; IL
.,,se them ana place them under con-
trol OF tho police department as to
iber safety and confinement, and to
,he board of health as to their clean
iIress and sanitary conditions. In
This way every person caught solicit
Inc and working on the streets could
he handled by the police court and
where she bel onged. In this way the
department would be in complete con-
irol Of this element, and could also
control the drug element and men
who mako q practise of living with
this class of women"
Chief Pitt says that the women are
being confined TO Commercial street
and Victoria alley, but that It Is diffi-
cult to handle the class of women who
walk the streets soliciting patronage.
Chief Pitt declares that there are
enough saloons in Salt Lake. In al
most every instance crimes are plot
led in saloons. he says. He recon-
mends that all saloons be compelled
10 close at midnight or / o'clock.
LIQUOR IN RESTAURANTS.
Chief Pitt would like the council TO
PASS an ordinance requiring cafes and
restaurants TO tear out partitions and
make them open to view throughout
In this connection, he says:
zone of the greatest evils in this
dty is restaurants where Intoxicating
liquors are sold. This class of res
uurants are nothing more nor less
than places to debauch young girls.
sivise that an ordinance be passed
regulating these places, and that it be
done quickly"
He asks for an ordinance giving
greater scope and fewer entanglo-
nents in the vagrancy ordinance that
The police may deal to better advant-
age with this class.
ADMITS GAMBLING.
He confesses lamepess of the de-
partment in the matter of gambling.
He says that to arrest the owners of
buildings rented for gambling is the
only remedy To secure convictions
under the present law he says is al
most impossible. He declares there
IS no roulette or faro in the city. but
admits poker rooms are being oper-
ated.
To do away with fences" he de-
clares that the pawn shop license
should be increased to $1,000 per an
nun and thus do away with smaller
estabphments wsSch are really places
where criminals may dispose of prop
erty
He strongly urges that the city and
county cooperate ON some plan to
provide detention home for boys
and girls whose home surroundings
lead them into delinquent ways.
Chief Pitt wants civil service plan
adopted in the matter of selecting po-
lcemen, the examinations to be for
mental and physical capacity.
He cites the cost of the police de-
partment for the year 10 have been
NHi9O.6S. There were 5,12S arrests
made during the year.