Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1904 — Officers’ Duties. [ARTICLE]

Officers’ Duties.

The following statements by Judge Grant of the Supreme Court, of Michigan, are worthy of the consideration of both officers and citizens He says. “I want to tell you right here that the next time a law officer says it is not his business to make oomplaint and tells you that if you will sign the oomplaint he will set the machinery of the law in motion, that you can assure him that it is not the doty of any private oitizen to do this.” The Judge says yet further: "It is not safe for any private oitizen to attack three kinds of law-breakers —keepers of houses of prostitution, gamblers, and liquor dealers who sell unlawfully. The suppression of their illegal business is not the conoem of private citizens." He speaks of the risk to property and personal safety which such citizens would iuour, and adds: "Law enforcement is what you pay the for and it is their duty and net a private citizen's."