The sun., 1916-01-08
POLICE TEACH BAD
BOYS TO Be GOOD
Message Of encouragement
From Woods Carried 10 Cor.
rcctiOnal Institutions.
PROMISE OF HELP MADE

"you will he told that every pull,oina-
is trying to build up his record o..
arrests by grabbing you on the sngh,os.
suspicion. That is not the truth IT,.
Police Department wants TO encourage
you: wants you 10 be good want yo.
to make good. You can make good"
That is the message that .s lcr.
heard this month ny the boys ami your
men In correctional institutions ii. A..
near New York city. NOT from rro'es
sionaI sermonizers or theoretical mora
lists, but from the lips of sergehn,s ~
the New York Police Department Tie.
are being sent by Commissioner Woo'
10 Harris Randall's and Rikers island,
to the Catholic and Jewish proter'or.es
to the farm colony in Orange county
the reformatory at Elmlra and else.
where.
In their own words good. simple. col.
lopuiai words that nobody can misundef.
stand. backed by tho authority 81 u.
Commissioner and their own cNpericrc.
they are "handinR Out the straign'
Coods"---a frank talk Oh tls futllity o,
crime. the satisfaction of homes, woi.
and the disposition OF the police to help
aud not to persecutc and discourage
The sentences quoted above happen to
he from "a talk by Sergt. Georg.
Fcrre Of the Twenty second precinc-
100 boys at Hart's Island on Wedn.,
day.
81 know most boys have been taush'
to fear a policeman" Beginning tina
way. Sergt Ferre made sure Of al al.
tentive audience. lie went on:
"My orders from the Police Comm.
sioner arc to try and remove that fes
and to ask you when you leave 'hs
Institution to go out forgetting the pa.
and holding your heads up. Determined
to go straight and make good.
Tells of Tough Boys.
Il know what you are up agaius' I
know there are some neghhorhoOd.
where the boys will kid you and jee-
at you--boys who want you to he IT,
themselves, young buns, idle and goo Dr..
for nothing. IL is very easy for b.
to go with the tough gangs OF
u-ighborhood and do the things tho
they do. Take the toughest h.
YOU know and look him over. HIS idea
II usually to get the reputation ~ be'rs
the toughest young fellow In his ncg
borhood. To keep that reputation lie .,
continually insulting women, annoNMg
old people. stealing from puShcarts, rlt
bing vacant houses and picking H.
pockets of drunken and helpless me
on the streets.
what eventually becomes ~ .
tough guy? He lands "a state Il.s.
because he is sure to got crugl'
suffers. like all criminals, from l4,a
imagination. Ask any criminal t..
he has passed - years and hcl
YOU that crime is Improbable. O.
the best he can look forward -
spend the greater part OF his w.
state prison and end NJ in ihe poo
held. And every one of them wii. g.
Nlsa a Young man to follow the str,.-
and narrow path.
How about the other boy the OF
side OF lie? Take the boy who H.
dustrious. who hustles for Job .
goes To- work. Not the one who .a
down and growls that he cam 3.
work. but the boy who when hy -,
job finds out what the boss w..
him To do and how he wants
and goes at IL with ginger aud Ir.
believing that the bose's interesr-
his interests and showing the boss
his every action that he II made or
right stuff ana wants to make
That boss Will soon recognize i.
ness ana increase his wages"