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Excerpt from The Committee of Fourteen, New York City, Annual Report for 1925 The double violation of law - illegal sale of liquor and prostitution - in these places, has caused a conflict as to court procedure; there being no state liquor law, the police must act under the Federal Volstead Act. If there is to be an adequate search and seizure, the Federal Law requires a search warrant. The delay subsequent upon securing it prevents the arrest of women by whom the officers may have been solicited when obtaining evidence of illegal Sales of liquor. Moreover, such cases as might be made, would most likely contain a serious degree of entrapment, since the women found in these places require to be wined and danced before suggesting unlawful intimacies. In the Committee's opinion, prostitutes can still be found by men with considerable time and money. How they are to be apprehended and convicted by the police who have neither, is the problem. 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.