ALL-NIGHT POLICE COURT.
MUCH-NEEDED INNOVATION IN NEW YORK.
Arrangements to establish an allnight police court in New York have been practically concluded (said a message to a London journal lastmonth), and it is suggested that the fourteen magistrates now holding office shall share the work amongst them. The magistrates do not seem to be keen oil nocturnal duty, but night courts are demanded as llie only way of breaking up the disgraceful system of “professional bondsmen,” or, in plain English,-put an end to the business of shady lawyers and other land-sharks who, working often with the connivance of the district police officers, hang around the police stations and virtually compel persons arrested to take their hail at an exorbitant
;prtce. With night courts, - as tiie New York Tribune says, persons arrested could ho brought immediately before a magistrate and disposed of on the spot, and so remove the curse of the professional bondsman, who is found in nearly all the big American cities.' The journal also pleads for an increase of the [powers of disciplining police officers, who, it is not denied, wink at the system.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 16 May 1907, Page 2
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