CRIME IN AMERICA.
NOT A WAVE, BUT A GROWTH. AL CAPONE’S INCOME. United Press Assn.—By Elecirir Telegraph—Copvr i ght. WASHINGTON, AngusU 22. “Supporting gangsters in the style to which they are accustomed costs every mail, woman and child in the United States £35 annually,” declared Major Brown, Chiel 'of Police, ill a nation-wide broadcast, in which he estimated the total cost of crime at thirteen billion dollars. “Lawlessness in America is not a wave,” he said. “It is a growth, a slow growth, which has taken a long time to reach its present alarming size.” 2 Citing the vast profits of racket-® eers, Major Brown estimated that in good years A 1 Capone had an annual income of forty million sterling. Major Brown defended the bulk of the American police as able, efficient, and willing to fight crime if backed by strong public opinion.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12429, 23 August 1933, Page 4
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