CRIME IN AMERICA
Many are the causes of a rate of homicidal crime in the United States which is now 18 times the British rate, writes the New York correspondent of the Observer. Of major importance hitherto lias been the lack of police authority of the Federal Government. This work is the function of the several States. Under Mr Roosevelt, however, the Federal Government lias been strengthened in this ns in other respects. What is required is further strengthening of the Federal police arm. In this connection a demand has been refocused on Washington for an anti-firearm law. Anti-racketeering laws are also demanded. Rackets have become such a feature of American life that a facetious salutation to a new acquaintance nowadays is; “What’s your racket? A grand jury in New York City has just unearthed enough evidence of this poisonous growth to make the ears of the citizenry tingle. Business men arc too frightened to testify. Others are working with the gangsters. Even labour unions have been captured.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22831, 16 March 1936, Page 16
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