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...most residents want to leave the clean, well-kept neighborhood, the litter-free streets, the bungalows with freshly painted shutters and the largely crimeless environment. The median income is $15,000, and houses average $30,000 in value. Youngsters play in safety on the elm-shaded streets, and families frequently leave their car,doors and garages unlocked. Observes Housewife Gail Cichanowski, 28: "People feel this is one of the last really good white areas in the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RACES: This Is a Battlefield | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...Crimeless San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...district is entirely in error and I can say in all truth that there is no district in San Francisco which can be described as being "tough." The San Francisco Police Department has worked hard and takes great pride in the fact that ours is one of the most crimeless cities among metropolitan cities of the world. We have never had racketeers or gangsters here; we have not had a kidnaping for ransom since the turn of the century; sex crimes of violence are lower per capita of population than any city of comparable size in the U. S.; bunco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

MURDER IN BERMUDA - Willoughby Sharp-Kendall ($2). In crimeless Bermuda, a comely girl is stabbed. The astonished police trace the actions of doubtful tourists and a dead man; catch a murderer and a kidnapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...newspapers periodically announce they will play down crime news-usually as a publicity stunt. The only consistently crimeless U. S. daily of any size: The Christian Science Monitor (132,058 circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Noble Effort | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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