PARK POLICING 



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Ninth Series of Questions and Answers 



1. Q. John Doe was driving an automobile truck 

 west on Jackson Boulevard, and in the truck he had 

 his wife and two children. Officer Jones gave John Doe 

 an arrest notification for violating Section 2, West Park 

 ordinance. Was the officer justified? A. No. The 

 boulevards are for the use of pleasure vehicles. John 

 Doe had a right to drive on the boulevard, inasmuch 

 as he was using his truck for a pleasure vehicle. 



2. Q. What constitutes an offense? A. A criminal 

 offense consists in a violation of a public law in the 

 commission of which there shall be a union or joint 

 operation of act and intention or criminal negligence. 



3. 0. What do you mean by intention? ^.Intention 

 is shown by the circumstances connected with the per- 

 petration of the offense, and the sound mind and dis- 

 cretion of the person accused. 



4. Q. Is drunkenness an excuse for committing crime? 

 A. Drunkenness shall not be an excuse for any crime 

 or misdemeanor unless such drunkenness be occasioned 

 by the fraud, contrivance or force of some other person 

 for the purpose of causing said drunkenness for such 

 malignant purpose. Such other person shall be consid- 

 ered principal and suffer the same punishment as would 

 have been inflicted on the person committing the offense 

 if he had been possessed of sound reason. 



5. Q. What is a delinquent child? A. A delinquent 

 child is any male who, while under the age of seventeen 

 years, or any female who, while under the age of eight- 

 een years, violates any law of this state, or is incorrigi- 

 ble or knowingly associates with thieves, vicious or 

 immoral persons or without just cause, and without the 

 consent of its parents, guardian or custodian, absents 

 itself from its home or place of abode, or is growing up 

 in idleness or crime or knowingly frequents a house of 

 ill repute, or knowingly frequents any policy shop or 

 place where any gambling device is operated, or fre- 

 quents any saloon or dram shop where intoxicating 

 liquors are sold, or patronizes or visits any public pool 

 room or bucket shop, or wanders about the streets in 

 the night time without being on any lawful business or 

 occupation, or habitually uses vile, obscene, vulgar, 

 profane or indecent language in any public place. 



6. Q. What constitutes contributing to delinquency 

 of children? A. Any person who shall knowingly or 

 willfully cause, aid or encourage any male under the age 

 of seventeen years or any female under the age of eight- 

 een years to be or to become a delinquent child as 

 defined in answer to Question 5, or who shall knowingly 

 or willfully do acts which directly tend to render any 

 such child so delinquent, and who, when able to do so, 

 shall willfully neglect to do that which will directly 

 tend to prevent such state of delinquency, shall be 

 deemed guilty of contributing to the delinquency of 

 children. 



7. Q. Define crime against children. A. That any 

 person of the age of seventeen years, and upwards, who 



shall take or attempt to take any immoral, improper 

 or indecent liberties with any child of either sex under 

 the age of fifteen years with the intent of arousing, 

 appealing to or gratifying the lust or passion or sexual 

 desires, either of such person or such child or of both, 

 or who shall commit or attempt to commit any part 

 or member thereof of such child, with the intent of 

 arousing, appealing to or gratifying the lust or passions 

 of sexual desires, either of such person or of such child 

 or of both, or any such person who shall take any such 

 child and entice, allure, or persuade any such child to 

 any place whatever, for the purpose either of taking 

 any such immoral, improper or indecent liberties with 

 such child, with said intent or of committing any such 

 lewd or lascivious act upon or with the body, or any 

 part or member thereof of such child with said intent. 



8. Q. Define seduction. A. That any person who 

 shall seduce and obtain carnal knowledge of any un- 

 married female under the age of eighteen years of previ- 

 ous chaste character, but no conviction shall be had 

 of said crime upon the testimony of the female, unsup- 

 ported by other evidence, and provided the subsequent 

 intermarriage of the parties shall be a bar to the prose- 

 cution of said offense. 



9. Q. What is required of officers regarding punctu- 

 ality and obedience to orders ? A. Officers shall be punc- 

 tual in attendance, prompt in obedience to orders, quiet 

 and civil in the performance of their duties and they 

 shall agreeably give their names and the number of 

 their stars to any person who may request same. 



10. Q. When is an officer justified in using his baton? 

 A. He shall not use his baton except when necessary to 

 subdue a resisting prisoner, or in the most urgent cases 

 of self-defense. 



Tenth Series of Questions and Answers 

 I. Q. What should an officer traveling in a park pay 

 particular attention to? A. Particular attention should 

 be paid to arrest every person who makes an indecent 

 exposure of his person. A person waiting to make an 

 indecent exposure of his person picks out a place where 

 there are no men in sight; he generally sits on a bench 

 near a girls' playground, or where women are likely to 

 pass by. They act in a very nervous manner, they can- 

 not sit still for any length of time, and are continually 

 looking around them. They generally carry a news- 

 paper, and pretend to be reading it, but in many cases 

 use it to cover up their person in case some man or 

 person they are afraid of passes by. When such persons 

 are arrested on complaint, the officer should always 

 have the person making the complaint sign the com- 

 plaint, and when committed in the officer's view, he 

 should endeavor to have the person for whom the inde- 

 cent exposure was intended appear in court to help 

 prosecute. A very good practice for an officer traveling 

 in a park is to try, if possible, to memorize the descrip- 

 tion of every person he sees act in a suspicious man- 



