UNITED STATES CRIME BILL.
Dr. Clayton J. Ettinger, professor of sociology at the Western Teachers College of Kalamazoo, Michigan, in his book “The Problem of Crime,” asks how any taxpayer can view with complacency the enormous public cost of crime. Dr. Ettinger estimates this at 4,000,000,000 dollars (normally about £800,000,000) annualy. Losses through frauds, property losses through burglary and robbery; the economic value of 12,500 murdered persons every year, and the general waste due to crime —these items amount in excess of 8,000,000,000 dollars (normally about £1,600,000,000) more. “In recapitulation,” Dr. Ettinger says, “after pondering all these items and considering the far-reaching effects of crime, we come to the conclusion that the highest figures on its annual cost yet ventured—l3,ooo,ooo,ooo dollars (normally £2,600,000,000) —• is probably not not an exaggeration.” That is a terrible commentary on organised society. It should make every American shudder to think that crime saps more from the people than all the legitimate costs of Federal, State and local government. It must be curbed, and curbed at once.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4459, 19 October 1933, Page 6
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