The police believed professional gamblers were similarly discriminating about their clientele.
Sands wrote that the police felt that many of the customers of bootleggers and gamblers were moderate participants and that their commerce hardly rose to the level of “vice.”
However, “Police contend that when persons assume a low moral standard they are apt to indulge in break-ins, burglary, robberies, murder and other crimes. That’s what causes crime, say police.”
“Crime after crime,” Howell maintained, “begins in the shady tavern, where women and men of low moral fiber congregate, drink beer, consume fuzzy pills or other substances. Crime starts from the hip pocket of pocket bootleggers peddling low grade white liquor (moonshine) on the streets to low-classed individuals who have little or no moral character.”
So the problem was not the professional gamblers, prostitutes and bootleggers, police reasoned. “The problem is with the streetwalker, the girl who never lights long enough to be caught. The problem arises when the streetwalker, out for a good time, comes in contact with the over-indulger in a shady tavern, and they drink again and again and plot a robbery or break-in.”
Sands also ruminated on the role of errant teenagers in supporting frowned-upon activities. He mentioned teenager “Pete Jones” who had recently written a provocative letter to the editor.
Jones “admitted he deliberately went to hotel for feminine pleasure, and bought liquor from a cab driver and then blames police because he was able to do so.”
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