Excerpt from Efficiency in the Administration of Criminal Justice Address: Before the New York State Bar Association, January 12 Very little progress has been made, however, in this direction. Less has been said, but much more accomplished during the last ten year period in the reorganization of our judicial establishment, especially in the large cities of the country. Beginning with Boston - Chicago, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cleveland,, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and New York City, in its Magistrates Courts, have reorganized their city courts. Such organization has been found necessary because the need has been first felt in the city. A city court must deal with a great volume of litigation; it must enforce numerous police regulations made necessary by conditions of city life; it must enforce the criminal law where crime flourishes. To do this effectively, numerous tribunals must be established. These must be organized in order to avoid the waste of judicial power, save time, promote efficiency of administration, and economy of expenditure. The earlier court system of the United States was adopted at a time when the thirteen states had no greater population than New York City has today. In the pioneer days, a judge was assigned to a county or to a district. He handled all sorts of litigation, civil and criminal, and traveled from county to county holding terms of court. Litigated cases were simpler in their nature. As population and wealth increased, and cities developed, the legal problems became more intricate and more important questions were involved. The tendency was to establish numerous distinct, unrelated courts. As judicial power developed to meet expanding human needs, portions of it were from time to time parceled out to newly created tribunals. In the formative period of the American state judicial system we went a great way to correct this primitive looseness of structure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.