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1939 Y.B. 1 (1939)
The Role of the Police in Crime Prevention

handle is hein.journals/yrbok23 and id is 7 raw text is: I CHECKING EARLY SYMPTOMS OF CRIME The Role of the Police in Crime Prevention HELEN D. PIGEON Former Executive Secretary International Association of Policewomen N a country bounded on the east by one World's Fair and on the west by another, it is a fitting time to dis- cuss crime prevention units in police departments, for the first protective service was set up in Portland, Oregon in 1905, during the Lewis and Clarke Exposition. It was definitely a woman's plan, staffed by women and designed for the protection of young girls, and the character of the movement continued for many years in the police- women's units which were subsequently established. Many of the officers in the International Association of Police- women and in the local civic groups promoting these bureaus had been famous in the suffrage field and they carried over into the new project their courage, their high ideals and not a little of their fanaticism, qualities which are inherent in all pioneering. Their task was made difficult by the punitive aspect of all American police work, accepted alike by the police and the public; by the military nature of the police hierarchy which had neither room nor liking for feminine intruders; and alas, by the Greek chorus of the social agencies, crying, Keep the children away from the police. In this the agencies re- fused to accept reality (to use one of their favorite phrases), for the police are by nature on the first line of defense, covering every inch of the city geographically,

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