as been used to circumvent the State Supreme Court ban on illegally obtained evidence.

Professor Sherry, without discussing the merits of the ruling, noted that it was largely the product of what some considered improper police taotics.

"It seems a little odd to discipline officers by a rule ofovidence," he added. "The courts write a rule of law and assume some one will tell the police about it and that's a big assumption. Then they assume some one will supervise, direct and control. ... But there is absolutely no machinery for carrying this out."

Sherry advocated a now approach to the problem with the emphasis on educating police officers in some of the finer points of the law as they omorgo through legislation or court decision. In the absence of such a system, he said, the State Penal Code has become "a kind of do-it-yourself handbook" for law enforcement officers.

Alfred Arnaud, legal adviser of the San Francisco Police Department, told the committee that rookies were required to take a 14-week oourse of six hours per week on constitutional and individual rights under the direction of Dr. Carlo Lastrucci, professor at San Francisco State College.

When Arnaud went on to show a large sheet of arrests and the great percentage of those released, Chairman O'Connell oxpressed deep surprise that all the arrests were made without warrants and "all" booked as "suspicion of felonios", However, Mr. Arnaud oxplained that there wore other arrests not indicated on the chart.

Gregory Stout, San Francisco attorney, told of groet shakedowns among those arrested under the "Vag-lewd" statutes. Officers intimidated those arrested under this law (section 647.5) to plead guilty to another dragnet "catch-all" law referring to disturbing the peace (cection 650.5) so that they would not have to register under section 290 as a sex offender. He quoted judges as saying, "Leave section 647.5 to our learned judges, for we can interpret." However, Mr. Stout pointed out there is prejudice, even among our judges. He commented that most "toilet cases" should