The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-20
THE VICE CRUSADE

D RIDGEPORT HAS police force which under good drec D ton would be organization to be proud of. The maximum estimate of the Burns who conducted the re- cent raids that 15 involved criminaly involved according to the statements that have been made to the papers,
 The matter entirely with relations between the police and the so-caled redght district charged that the police did not the illicit sale of uor that they permitted gambling establishments run straight, but crooked that they tolerated houses permitted most dangerous and threatening traffic in the lives of young women and girls under twenty years of age.
 It to be asserted, but very clearly, things permitted because the law breakers paid part their gains to those whose duty
 The implication is apparently plain, that the who proection and received payment among fifteen who have been numbered.
 In these times and under the illegal sale of liquor under ordinary circumstances grave el IL becomes grave It exists through the corruption of the authorities, rather than through the oleraon public opinion
 Gambling hells not good thing a city, they are on the level They evil if they ed and by connivance with the authorities youth will be corrupted here and here In the other the entire community must suffer- for authority corrupted by bribery is ra reed for great industrial city to lean upon
 Nevertheless the charges that relate to liquor ling comparatively trivial
 The attention of the public upon the un- speakably horrible conditions that said respect to the traffic in flesh and blood.
 is claimed that vice organized and upon large that the earnings over to the heads of the system and that of these earnings paid the authorities they protected this traffic and have received part of the proceeds.
 These the essentials the thatshas to Inc public upon the authority Mayor the Burns raiders The mayor that himself responsible
 
 self became convinced that his police nearly every of which has been appointed during which he has characterized organizations of ifs kind unreliable that protecting the crime if should have suppressed.
 Upon this statement of conditions iustifies course which certainly extraordinary.
 How it happened that the mayor continued year after in ignorance of conditions city remains to be
 What part he had in fostering conditions which duced the police force to necency The sufficient ly stated
 The suspension Superintendent Redgae follows inme daely the sensational disclosures which the raids brought into being.
 It to be assumed that the suspension head of the police department will the the crusade must be only beginning This singuarlv small remedy to flow from charges and in the importance of the individuals understood to be accused
 If protection money has been paid and received a crime has been committed committed for each separate act As every this sort r1- turns toward certain who justly unusly under suspicion
 This thing must not end where it s The cards go the table face The honor of the city demands less; public opinion will not be satisfied with
 Who the two the three, the ten the fifteen guilty? Who gave protection? got money that was paid? Who the trafckers in the virtue girls?
 The mayor must go forward upon the road which, he says, has voluntarily guilty wha they guilty of The public waits the facts true then jail gates yawn those richly deserving the felon's fate.
 If the statements which have are untrue ther Mayor Wilson occupies position which few to occupy.
 The Times has open mind It is waiting facts
 The the facts produced the everybody