Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16

nish information concerning uniform meenO0s
Of crime reporting. as well Is the cards and
envelopes for Thanking the records 70 wash
ington.
To-day If the police anywhere arrest sus-
picious character they can send his nngerprmts
to the National Division Of Identification ana
information and within 46 hours have his come
pIete police record, II such Is ON file. Inquiries
are being received at the rate of $500 . day,
and on an average 500 identifications day
are being made. If an immediate answer Is
desired the information is sent by wire at
Government rates. Today the collection con-
sists Of more than 100000 nngerprint records
and 1t Is being rapidly increased, about half
million prints having been added TO the coA-
lection during the last fiscal year.
About 2,20O law-enforcement agencies IN the
United States and foreign countries are now
cooperating, and any law-enforcement ofncer
who may desire to become correspondent Is
welcomed and furnished with . booklet Of
instructions.
ssThe criminals themselves are rapidly becom-
ing aware Of the net which Is closing down over
the privileges and freedom which they enjoyed
when they roamed through the forty-nine dtf-
ferent jurisdictions with no central bureau to
check and double-check their activities and
operations. BY means of the washington, d. O..
records, 131 fugitives from justice have been
identified in a single month and returned to
the institutions from which they had escaped.
with past criminal records before them.
United States justices are able to mete out
equitable penalties. This Is especially true
where there are laws providing long sentences
or life for criminals with records Of several
felonies against them. One defendant I'm the
Middle West when arraigned denied having Q
past criminal record. After his trial, but be-
fore sentence was passed, his record. furnished
by the Department Of Justice In Washington
was read aloud In court. The prisoner tarne9
to the judge and said:
Boss, what do you say we just let that 60
and give me what you were going TO give me?'
lsER TGHT now we are particularly interest&9
in compiling criminal statistics which
the bureau has just been authorized by Con.
gress to collect and disseminate" Mr.. Hoover
continued.
Prominent jurists sociologists penolegists
reinforcement agencies and other responsible
sources have for some time been eager to eff.
feet an organization for compiling such figures
in manner that would be ineligible to the
layman, but nothing was done until 1927 when
the International Association Of Chiefs of Pc.
lice appointed its Committee on Uniform Crime
Records. With the aid of the Rockefeller
Foundation and the Laura SpeIman Rockefeller
Memorial, much Of the groundwork was done
in the preparation Of instructions to police and
In the gathering Of figures for the first half
JSsA' - O1AJ - sAAC OSpoEt~
Inent took the work over and Is now issuing the
reports IN monthly bulletins"
WIN the police be honest about sending In
correct records Of felonies committed within
their jurisdiction" Mr. Hoover was asked
Il think they are" he said "In the first
place. the police chiefs themselves inaugurated
the movement because they wanted the infcr-
nation. $3.50
you VIII ind most chiefs of police TODAY
high-class men. The community in which the
once Of police chief is > political pawn ID .
backward community"
t0opyright. $500