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LA TopCop Parker sez Cal. Supreme Court ruling that police must operate within Constitutional limits is unfair, hampers police action. Viva la hamper! Dist. Atty. Roll sez new laws on arrest and search needed, BUT police should be able to do job within law. News editorials say illegal-entry and illegal-evidence ban hampers prosecution of dope offenders et al. This may be true. Constitutional guarantees specifically limit police power, in favor of citizens' rights, guarding security of person and property. Mr. Parker in effect demands police right to break down any door any night, on suspicion something illegal might be occurring. We judge a modern state by whether citizens' or policeman's rights are primary. Admitting the police have rough job, and citizens' rights do hamper job, we insist police exist for citizen, not vice-versa. Do we want society where police must work harder to get some types of lawbreakers, or society where no man, guilty or no, is safe from tapped phone and midnight invasion? Recent midnite Calif, spectacle, where TV followed cops into several San Bernardino homes in dope hunt, rousing men and families from bed under eyes of TV audience, should give pause. Is there a right to privacy? National security a parallel question

U. S., up against Russ, requires some security measuresbut how much and at what cost? Habitual infringements of basic rights can't add much to national security. Value of American experiment lies in showing world freedom and power are compatible... Civil Service Chmn. Young

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by dal mcintire

sez his agency maintains file of over 2,000,000 Americans allegedly subversive-small compared to FBI file. Wonder if list lumps homos in same category?

LA Councilman Harold Harby and FBI boss Hoover each recently said cops oughtn't be called cops. Not nice. Harby proposed city ordinance to ban press and public use of term. Not adopted. Same day, an "officer of the law" gave Harby a ticket. Children to be encouraged to play "officers of the law and robbers" or maybe we should also be polite to crooks?

Toronto man, charged in Pittsburgh with molesting boys, was charged at trial with making trips to several US cities from Canada "for no apparent reason." One is needed? . . . Young Frisco prosties talked to cops, got indicted for effort, learned about 5th Amendment from Perry Mason novel, clammed up. No other witnesses. Case dropped . . . Private-ear "Steve" Broady wiretap trial in NYC showed astonishing extent of private wiretapping for jealous wives, business rivals, etc. Seems this pro "listenin Tom" even cut in on Mrs. Luce's line . . .

Utah fuss over polygamy practiced by "Fundamentalists" long excommunicated by Mormons. Estimate 20,000 involved in multiple-wife culttaken seriously as basic tenet of true Mormonism. Say govt. persecution inconsistent with "separation of Church and State," are appealing arrests to higher courts. Especially questionable was recent case of children seized when mother refused to sign oath she