City Overrun with 'Sheiks', Remy Told

From The Indianapolis Times, Wednesday, December 9, 1925:  Answering assertations made by six women that young men – “shieks” – in autos and on downtown corners are annoying women and girls and nothing is being done, Prosecutor William Remy said politics in the police department is responsible for “sheiking” because Indianapolis police are told whom to arrest and not to arrest.  Police officials responded, saying women mostly are to blame for the boldness of the “shieks” because of present fashions with low necks and high skirts, together with encouragement offered by women.  Mayor Lew Shank challenged Remy or anyone to prove the police chief has been impeded in enforcing the law, pointing out that Indianapolis is low in crime compared with other large cities and that two young men of respectable north side families were arrested for annoying telephone operators leaving work.    

“City Overrun with ‘Sheiks’, Remy Told,” The Indianapolis Times, 8 December 1925, p. 1:2

“Romeos Just Little Faster, Says Shank,” The Indianapolis Times, 9 December 1925, p. 1:6