REPORT ON LAWLESSNESS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT

Authors

John Barker Waite, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

The first part of this Report offers taxpayers little return on their investment. All it even purports to do is to inform the public that the police throughout the country sometimes use intolerable, brutal methods to extract information concerning crime and occasionally keep arrested persons out of communication with lawyers and friends until they can be questioned at length. But of these facts the public was already convinced through newspaper and magazine. Indeed, the Report itself uses the widespread public knowledge of the evil as evidence of its existence. Yet, beyond this repetition of already accepted beliefs, the Report really offers nothing. It can not be called a scientifically compiled authentication of actual conditions through direct evidence, because its conclusions are based only upon hearsay and opinion no more carefully analyzed and evaluated than by previous publications of one sort or another.

Recommended Citation

John B. Waite, REPORT ON LAWLESSNESS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, 30 Mich. L. Rev. 54 (1931).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol30/iss1/8