ANOTHER STEP TOWARD CRIME STOPPERS

Cape Girardeau can be pleased that progress is being made toward the establishment of a Crime Stoppers program here. The program, which has been so successful in other places, would likely be equally successful in Cape Girardeau.

With the Noon Lions Club organizing the effort, civic groups will get together Feb. 4 to discuss setting up the program. Volunteers will be sought, and from them will be selected a Crime Stoppers board of directors, which would oversee the program.

Crime Stoppers fights crime by offering reward money for information about those who commit serious crimes. It also can help serve as a deterrent to crime: Notice how the rash of burglaries in Cape Girardeau fell off once a substantial reward was offered by a number of businesses.

Crime Stoppers would be another valuable tool at the disposal of police. Cape Girardeau needs the program.