Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1933 — Page 3

AUG. 11, 1933

REVELATIONS OF MOLEY’S FIRST CRIME SURVEY, MADE IN 1920, STIRRED CLEVELAND Staff of Lejral Experts Was I Xed to Study Ills and Diagnose Situation; X-ray Now Aimed at All of U. S. BV Klf HARD 1.. MAHF.R | imf ‘■penal W riOr CLEVELAND. Aig IL—Cle\eland :n the year 1920 found itself beset by the scourge of rrim< Pay roll robbon** came as regularly as Saturday; desperadoes roamed the streets; more than a score of unsolved murders were written in to the police records. Perjury mas rampant in the courts. E'.en the chief justice of the municipal court had become involved in a kiUing. lor which he mas acquitted alter two sensational trials later lound to have been saturated with perjury and procuring of false testimony. Police openly admitted *hir inability to cope with crime. The administration of criminal justice seemed to have broken down completely. What mas there to oo about it? Cmr organisation* including the Clc\rland Bar Association, the League of Women Voters and tne Chamber of Commerce, petitioned the Cleveland Foundation, a privately endowed institution for civic good, to make a survey of criminal justice.

Ra mond Charles Molev was director of the organization He was selected to direct, the survey. Now this same Ra> mnnd Molev is head of President Roosevelt s brain trust " and assigned to direct a national drive against crime The Foundation agreed to make the survey in December, 1920 lust before one of the most shocking murders in the history of Cleveland. Wilfred Sly and H K. Fanner, foundrv officials, carrying a pay roll to their plant, were set upon by a gang of robbers and shot to death a' noon one Saturday. New Held for Moley The city was in a mood for a wholesale, frank exposition of the causes of the breakdown in Justice and the remedies. It was anew field for Molev. He had come at the age of 22 from an obscure chair of political science at Western Reserve university to direct the foundation. He engaged I>ean Roscoe Pound of Harvard law school and Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, former chairman of the war labor policies hoard, to conduct the survey. Th B y picked assistants and gathered together a staff of about twenty-five. Molev was here and there, directing keeping his fingers on all activities and knowing all that was going on just as he operated in the Roosevelt campaign last fall. lTie staff gathered by Molev. Pound and Frankfurter a.s their experts included manv men of noted ability in their partirular fields. Th reports began appearing in the late summer and fall of 1921 and rreatcri sensations and wide comment in the city. Prosecutor is Criticised Their revelations figured in thp mayoralty campaign and municipal elections that fall, and many attribute Cleveland's adoption of the city manager plan t since abandoned! in part, to the crime survey. The police report blew up a storm. The investigators put- the force through an intelligence lest 'the United States Army Alj>ha test *. and the detectives rated lowest of any group in tlie department. The detective personnel is supposed to be the cream of the uniformed patrol force." commented the report We doubt the truth of the presumption that the detective personnel in Cleveland is entitled to rank as a group having superior abilities." The most scathing rriticism of official conduct came in the study of the county prosecutor's office. As P. Ayres, nationally known statistician, put it in speaking of ihe report, before the City Club of

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Cleveland 'Ayres was secretary of the Foundation at the timei if All Baba s forty thieves were raueht in Cleveland, twenty-eight would go free, twelve would be sentenced but onlv six would go to the penitentiary." Flareup Over .luvenile Court Prosecutors were found frvinc cases of which they had never heard before, papers if) the rase were placed in their hands at the beginning of the trial day. Thp report, did recognize, howpver. that salaries of the prosecutor and his seven assistants were ridicuously 10w—55,500 yearly for the prosecutor and $3,000 to $5,000 for the assistants—a fact that contributed greatly to the failure to obtain more able men in the office. It recommended a yearly compensation of $15,000 for the prosecutor, a suggestion that has been ignored. Thp biggest flareup came over the juvenile rourt. The report spoke in critical terms of the court and its supervision of the delinquent child. The judge of the court, George S. Addams since deceased—had been in the court since its founding and had become such a tradition with the public that criticism of him and his methods was almost treason. Judge Addams engaged in a word battle with Molev over the report, calling it "rotten - ’ and "unfit for publication." But it was published. C’herk Operating of Courts The direct result of the survey was the founding of the Cleveland Association for Criminal Justice, an idea of Moley's. He saw in such an organization the meihnd to chock up on the operations of courts and the police department, a constant supervision of justice. He sold his idea to thirteen civic organizations, who joined with him in creating the association. Moley being its first treasurer. It railed Charles DeWoody. one-time department of justice agent, to Cleveland, to become the director. The association still functions. The report so rocked the city that William S Fitzgerald, who while mayor in 1920 had asked the Foundation lo undertake the survey, was defeated for re-election. Both old line political parties. Democrats and Republicans, were administered a double drubbing at the polls in 1921 by an enraged citizenry. Furthermore, the city manager plan was voted in by an overwhelming majority. Following his work with the Cleveland Foundation. Moley was called to Columbia University. There he branched out as a criminologist and began directing surveys throughout the country.

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