Criminal Justice in Cleveland: Reports of the Cleveland Foundation Survey of the Administration of Criminal Justice in Cleveland Ohio (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Criminal Justice in Cleveland: Reports of the Cleveland Foundation Survey of the Administration of Criminal Justice in Cleveland Ohio<br><br>For some time previous to this survey Cleveland had been restive under a growing feeling of insecurity of life and property. The fifth largest city in the country entertained a wide-spread conviction of its failure in the most primitive function of government. In the spring of 1920 this feeling was brought to a head. An atrocious and sordid crime implicating the chief judge of the city''s municipal courts stirred to action dormant civic pride. With rare self-restraint and self-knowledge the leaders of the community realized that the city had the feeling but not the understanding for action. They had the insight to realize that this sensational case was but symptomatic of deeper causes. In a word a problem in social sanitation and social engineering was presented. Therefore in the winter of 1920 a number of civic organizations headed by the Cleveland Bar Association requested the Cleveland Foundation to undertake a survey of the administration of criminal justice in Cleve land.<br><br>Doubtless to a considerable extent the survey proved what was already suspected by many and known to a few. The point is that the survey proved it. Instead of speculation we have demonstration. Now one ventures to say there is no possible excuse for a citizen of Cleveland not knowing the shortcomings of the system and the indis pensable conditions for their correction. The system is judged not by the occasional dramatic case but by its normal humdrum operations.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.