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DEATHS BY VIOLENCE

TWELVE THOUSAND IN ONE YEAR. The "New York Eveuiug Post” published a few weeks ago a lengthy bcnes, * articles on the crime wave in the Uiiiten States. Tue annual cost if crime m that country is estimated at something like ten thousand million dollars, or 4 thousand million English pounds stcrlnig The sum of 3.5011.000,003 dollars octets the cost of property stolen tnrough Baud ami acts of violence, win e "“L iars covers the cost of both official a amateur protective activities. It is ti < largest single bill paid ly the cour and is almost three tunes the amount spent annually on the United States Go - eminent. It also approximates to tn sum loaned by tlie United States to al foreign Powers during the war. The cost of crime to each individual inhabitant of the States is 63 dollars t.er year, or about 16 guineas. . r . n .. The loss of life resulting from acts ot violence is annually greater in tne United States than »n Britain, trance. Germany. Italy. Canada, and the Scandinavian countries combined. y ea ;? for instance, no fewer than 12.000 persons lost their lives through acts ot violence. 70 per cent, cf which were committed by professional criminals in coni blood. In New York city alone the number of homicides was 240 in 1918. and 3/ in 1925. , _ , .... . This increase of the loss of life is obviously due to the new type of bandit and criminal in the cities The hold-up man of the West, rougrh as he was, at least possessed a certain amount of respect for human life. Victims were lined up. but revolvers were not sed actively unless serious resistance was made, inc modern bandit, on the other hand, does not display the slightest concern for anyone at all. If cornered he does not hesitate to shoot down defenceless women and children, or anyone who may be standing by. Tlie revolver and the automobile have made crime easier for the town robber. , The crime wa/e has not been traced to any one particular cause, The war has hern blamed, but as Europe has not suffered from such a crime-wave, this argument falls rather flat. Social and moral irresponsibility . appear to have played a great part in the making of criminals, while the display or wealth has turned many young People into bandits eager for “easy money ’* On the other hand, many law experts hlamo the laxness of the law for the situation.

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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 51, 24 November 1926, Page 5

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DEATHS BY VIOLENCE Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 51, 24 November 1926, Page 5

DEATHS BY VIOLENCE Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 51, 24 November 1926, Page 5

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