Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Governor Miller proclaiming that New York City must be made a "safe place to live in" and the daily press echoing with the announcement that in the last 98 days there have been 91 murders in the Metropolitan district, the so-called "Crime Wave" is with us again. Is it the effect of the post-war reaction, reflecting general world wide lawlessness as a result of renewed acquaintance with the automatic? Are there laws enough at present against crime, or is the present machinery adequate to enforce them? Does the flaring publicity attendant on each daring hold-up serve...
...whatever statistics come out of this investigation, one defect is glaringly apparent even to the layman. Crime and its methods have advanced as rapidly as the rest of civilization. The old-time "jimmy" and the nitroglycerine "soup" are now aided by elaborately planned, wireless-informed rings operating with the most modern tools and making a getaway in high-powered cars. To combat this the old-fashioned equipment and ponderous methods of the police departments are hopelessly inadequate...
...private ventures. Americans are notoriously stingy about any expenditure that savours in the least of public service, and correspondingly extravagant in satisfying the private wants; but thorough going support of the police is one part of the public service that cannot wait. It is one thing to talk about Crime Waves and their origins in idleness and unemployment, which will come to an end when "business picks up a bit"; but the most effective means of preventing any such wave from becoming permanent is by providing the machinery of the law with adequate funds...
...thing that was evident in the course of the lecture was that Mr. Burns looked on crime and criminals not only from the point of view of a cold-blooded detective but form that of the philosopher and psychologist. "Environment is responsible for 85 to 90 percent of all crime committed in this country," he said. He always made an effort to find out what turned the criminal on the wrong path, and was interested in seeing whether a criminal went straight afterwards...
...Burns was born in Baltimore in 1861 and was brought up to be a tailor. But he grew interested in the detection of crime, and when he solved the celebrated "tally-sheet forgeries" in a State election, his fame become widespread...