26 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SAN JOSE. 



CHAPTER V. 



HOW TO PROVIDE FOR THE SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC. 



Section 1. The City's Police. 



1. Police board or police commissioners. 



a. How chosen. 



b. Powers and duties. 



c. Qualifications. 



d. Corrupt politics and its effect on police. 



2. Powers and duties of police force. 



a. Learn who the criminals are and where they are. 



b. Enforce the law. 



c. Preserve order. 



d. Prevent accidents. 



e. Prevent crime and disorder. 



f. Educate the public. 



3. Reasons for low police standard. 



a. Method of selecting men unsatisfactory. 



b. Inferior men in the place. 



c. Associated with corrupt politics. 



4. Reform methods. 



a. Defects of merit system. 



b. New idea of civil service. 



c. Efficiency record ; physique, scholarship, experience. 



5. Tests for eflBcient police service. 



a. Laws enforced. 



b. Vice and crime suppressed. 



c. City orderly and law abiding. 



6. Benefits to be derived from a state constabulary. 



a. Laws pertaining to liquor selling, gambling, prostitution, enforced better. 



7. The citizen co-operates with the police. 



a. By reporting crime and evasion of law. 



b. By willingness to appear in court. 



c. By preventing delinquency. 

 S. The women police. 



a. Field of activity. 



b. Service — preventive. 



Field Work. 



1. Ask a policeman to tell you all the different kinds of work he does in one day, 



when on duty. 



2. Classify his duties. 



a. Ways of preventing accidents. 



b. Ways of helping the public. 



c. Ways of preventing crime. 



d. Ways of bringing persons before the bar of justice. 

 o. How do the policemen of your city get their positions? 



a. What is the objection to this method? 



b. What can be said in favor of it? 



c. For how long are the police chosen? 



4. What is the advantage of having Civil Service rules for selecting the police of your 



city? The disadvantage? 



5. Why does a policeman not always arrest a man who violates a law? Ask him. 



