Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-25

stricting organizations. There is an
enormous increase in population which
might lead unthinking persons who fol-
| low crime records to suppose that crime
is on the increase. The fact is that
several years ago large percentage
of the wrongdoers sought managed TO
get away. Now the percentage Is
greatly reduced and we get ten men
where formerly we got one.
Same Methods Employed
policemen are sane-m minded and
conservative men, who do not try mir
acles or attempt to bring clairvoyancy
and dream book records into their line
of business. We all read the papers
and carefully scan them for all reports
of things which may be of interest to
US, and we catch more wrongdoers by
keeping informed through the press
than any Sherlock Holmes could get
in ten thousand years by studying
cigar ashes, examining cigaret butts
and taking his daily shots of hop
police officials have to keep their
minds clear, and their efficiency is not
wasted by giving too much time to de-
duction. The men who accomplish the
best results keep the telegraph wires
| hot and cover the most ground IN the
least time. One automobile is worth
| "a nuQQTGQ
some; and a daily police bulletin, such
as we issue, is worth more than all
of the secret messages ever written in
pursuit of crooks and thugs. Several
times in the last month we have been
able to get to the scene of a reported
crime or attempted burglary with such
speed as to catch our desired men on
the spot"
81 am a believer in all modern and scien-
tihc adiuncts to further the capture OF
wronEdoers 1 don't want more police sta
tIons a. they are prOportionately too expen-
siye in their maintenance. Give me two
more automobiles in which to transport my
men with the utmost speed TO Whatever
places they are needed and will get many
times greater efficiency out of my depart
ment with less expense.
Auto Saved Three Lives
mot only in the capture Of male
factors but in the saving of human
life I have found our police automobiles
effective. We saved three lives during
Elks' week by having an extra autOmo-
bile pressed into service, because we
were able to rush to the scene of acci-
dents in time TO give medical assistance
which would have been too late had
our coming been delayed few more
seconds.
Not long ago a man in a building
not far from the heart Of town tele-
phoned to us that two men who had
all the appearance of burglars were
about to make an entrance into the
building 1t happened that two motor
cycle police were just coming in to
make their report. / rushed them to
the scene of action, and almost before
the telephone receiver could be hung
up our men had reached the building
and nabbed the burglars. They proved
to be a not very important capture, but
the man who sent in the call for help
was so delighted that he mailed a big
check for our police pension fund.
Here the chief verified his story and
gave the name of the donator to the
police fund, but requested that the
name be withheld.
GIVE me the automobile and motor
cycle with a good force of active men
and the people certainly will get full
value out of their police force" con-
tinued the chief. "The thing of I'M
portance in my department is to get
the men to the scene of action at once
This is what counts"
Pink Whlskers Out of Style
Upon being questioned in regard to
any similarity of procedure between
the sleuth of story books and the real
seuth the chief laughed heartily,
Pink whiskers, or false whiskers Of
any hue, rubber soles, goggles and in
tuitive lunches exist only in romantic
rot" he remarked. "As a matter Of fact
police detectives often get their best
captures by means of hearty co-opera-
tiOn on the part of the different police
heads throughout the country and a
harmonious working OF the various