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Cities, such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, may have more difficulty combatting the numbers game ?or bolita or the policy racket???because its networks of runners are big employers in the ghettos and amount to major community industries. Notes Max Renner, a New York investigation commission special agent: "Even when the numbers in Harlem was operated by white mobsters, 90% of the take stayed there." Thus powerful politicians from poor urban constituencies have traditionally opposed serious attempts to drive the numbers out of business...
...once the onetime War Lord appeared smiling, affable, passed around his famous fat cigars. The accident was regrettable, he said, but easily explained. He had been "handling" a new pistol?presumably much as a Tilden swishes a new racket???to get its hang and feel. He had not noticed Prince Hsien Kai or anyone else in the garden. Somehow or other, while he "handled" the pistol, it had gone...
...RACKET???Chicago on a particularly restless evening when a gunman shoots a cop (TiME...
...RACKET???A cruel tale of Chicago police stations written and played with stern reality...
...RACKET???Purple evenings in a Chicago police station...