AMERICAN CRIME
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TREMENDOUS GOST lawlessness not ; a wave but a steady growth POLICE CHIEF'S BROADCAST
— By Telegrapb — Copyright).
(Rec. 10 p.m.) Washington, August 22. "Supporting gangsters in the style to which they have been aeeustomed costs every man, woman and ehild in the United States, £35 annually," declared Major Brown, chief -of-police, during a nation-wide broadeast in the course bf which he estiinated that the total. cost of crime in the United States has been 13 billions of dollars. i , ..... . „ ... "Lawlfessness in the United' States is not a .wave,".he declared. "Its grow.th is a slow. gr.owth.and it has taken, a longf , time to reach its present alarming.size." Citing,;the va,st pi'pfits of tho.racketeqrs,^ Major Brown estimqted, that in.good years,, A1 Capone had a^ annual income of £40,000,000. Major Brown def ended the. bulk of the American, police as ahle efficient men wiliing to -fight crime if backed by a strong public opinion.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 617, 23 August 1933, Page 5
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153AMERICAN CRIME Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 617, 23 August 1933, Page 5
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