The following program is brought to you In Living Color on wnbc TV central Harlem where analogies are easily drawn between day-to-day existence and the biblical struggle between Good and Evil on Sundays the forces for good Gather in scores of churches which DT the community [Applause] at the Upper Park Avenue Baptist Church the congregation awaits the sermon of
Its Pastor a man who equates evil with just one thing crime words alone do not serve the Reverend oira Dempsey and what he sees as the onrushing Armageddon he and his followers have formed an armed private militia to meet the challenge of crime the church Vigilantes have the tacit
Support of the police veteran Harlem police Commander said it it’s a case of the good guys against the bad in those terms the Reverend Dempsey is clearly a good guy just 45 minutes from Broadway as the old George M Cohan song goes we found traces of the impact of organized crime
New relle in Westchester County looks outwardly respectable expensive homes line the pleasant lanes that Manan out from the business center some 77,000 people live here but law enforcement officials agree not all of them live within the law 109 wiill Terrace is the home of Joe tufo described in a 1964
Report of the state investigations commission as controlling most policy operations in New Rochelle well he took the work out and they and they left from from gambling’s Nemesis here is this man a minister named Albert Fay Hill working with with members of his church most of them Housewives the Reverend Hill spends
His days tailing gamblers he uses walkie-talkies to coordinate the activities of the women working with him okay and this is what they often see fast moving relays of gambling receipts and bedding slips these films were shot by the Reverend Hill and Hills informants tell him when the day works
As the gambling receipts and slips are called may be going at the moment a so-called policy bank and nearby pelum is believed to be the ultimate destination of the works at first the Reverend Hill was not taken seriously but persistence paid off evidence gathered by Fay Hill’s people resulted
In 36 arrests by federal authorities way toward in Washington Avenue in sth do you read me read you beautifully you are watching a technique used by thousands of burglars who prey on New York apartments but this man is not a burglar he is a highly skilled New York
City police detective whose business it is to know the working methods of the so-called Pikman after he has picked the lot the burglar uses a plastic card a loyed in the vernacular to ease the door latch the more sophisticated among the burgling fraternity may do the job so
Smoothly that you would not realize that your apartment had been robbed until you noticed something missing despite their understanding of the burglar’s modus operandi the police solve only about 14% of the more than 12,000 burglaries in New York each month Electronics to the rescue in this enactment a burglar enters a darkened
Apartment a radar device has detected ected the burglar’s very presence emergency please call New York please both the apartment building telephone operator and the police receive automatic alerts M Happ emergency please respond at once repeating there is a burglary in progress another electronic Marvel a computer speeds police to the scene if
Every link works perfectly technology May CCH a burglar however most burglar are not caught there is endless gadgetry in the war on crime women today arm themselves with tear gas guns before venturing out into the streets we also try to talk crime to death we have the worst crime
Situation the most horrifying crime situation in our particular City and in unfortunately in our community that history has ever recorded there is no woman woman that doesn’t go from the subway to her apartment or from the bus line to apartment at night and I dare say most of the men too without fear
First that she might not make it without being attacked and two when you get to the apartment has it been robbed and what was taken now that’s no way to live in this great City in this great country but gadgets and talk are not stemming the overwhelming tide of crime
Which sweeps over this great City and Country the worst of it is that the police aren’t able to stem it either and that prompts another Hue and cry You’re Not Safe in your own home you’re not safe in your own business You’re Not Safe anywhere how long could this go on
They’re destroying state by state and city by City how long are we going to take this and I’m asking mayor Lindsay let him answer how long are we going to take this I’m Edwin Newman NBC News this program will among other things attempt to answer the question asked by that
Woman it will look at the extent and nature of crime in New York today and how we as a community are moving to meet it in a broad sense it’s a program about all of us what do we know or care about the so-called crime problem how do we
Respond to it for crime is not a problem not a job for the police alone it is no coincidence that the ancient Greek equivalent of policemen was citizen word up this a Death Jam production man Johnny Blaze word up another s on Che it out now it check it I get
Drunk off a cheap wi and line [ __ ] want a [ __ ] with me your on your Sunshine sne [ __ ] come as hard as a PO R can you D it only 5% live it while the rest of you fake [ __ ] try to get it to St half a yard need to quit itting hard
And be soft as a Cott it no balls at all if you do something get with it raise a sharp in my Jawbone I might spit I’m dealing with it on a everyday basis Ro where get cold out and stack glaces in the zone is the once again Stone throw
Your hands in the a pump up bom did you ever get the feeling for that back [ __ ] something different from that R being [ __ ] but here it come from the GS of the one I amazing fire in the beat me Johny BL check it my mind’s on the ain’t the
Damn thing funny getting money Blaze represent kills the fraudulent [ __ ] giving me the grill nowadays everybody trying to keep it real hit me with that 3030 rifle Beats from the streets Mega Tri rap gymnastic flipping from the cradle to the cas piing up a pull fantastic this the method not the plastic
Man coming down like our glass sand check the tactic now you know the ultimate and leg the counter fit and or get snake bitten filled up with deadly venom Johnny Blaze get a Venom play them out like Lee denim can you dick it can the rub eat can I
Live it get sow deeper whoever slipping get the sleeper hold faces of that body cold on some that part you swallow your soul yeah and it don’t stop the body Ro Hy rock yeah hip hop we sat out in the dark we used to do it out in the park
Hell Avenue ain’t a damn thing new stay true to my clan I’m a family man loyalty brought me royalties to the guards I give my heart and soul totally this a bar can’t be broken that’s my life I’mma die if I think twice I’m not joking to
The ass if I’m half stepping politician use the system as lethal weapons when we slip up lethal injection everyday Life’s a lesson I take my spot in the lower class section Johnny Blaze To New York Central Park by day hardly seems the most likely place for a television program on crime after all people come here to enjoy the good life of the city crime’s very antithesis but here in the park you can see most graphically what crime is doing to the
City and the people who live in it as darkness comes the park empties out and takes on a new quality cold and vaguely Menacing survey by Lewis Harris reveals that people in cities are increasingly concerned about going out at night on City Streets between between three and 500,000 New Yorkers own firearms and requests for pistol permits are at an all-time high last year the police seized some 4,000 illegally owned
Handguns a kind of mild hysteria mixes with resignation in the city and movie goers are treated to fantasies which reflect a growing public cynicism toward law enforcement and the police along the empty side streets of Manhattan dorm men wait out the night like lonely Sentinels in the darkness many commercial Avenues and
Boulevards are abandoned to the criminal and to his traditional enemy the cop on the beat and who can calculate the job opportunities and the pure fun of the city that are lost because of [Applause] that at dawn the city’s vibrant life Returns the crime rate falls off somewhat for nearly half of all major crimes are committed in the 8 hours between 400 p.m. and Midnight as Lewis Mumford has observed the city has a way of protecting and nurturing criminals in cities they exist out of all proportion to the general population if there are a 100 New Yorkers in these scenes statistically half a dozen of them will become victims of crimes this year nearly half a
Million crimes are reported in New York each year and police believe many others go unreported there may be three times as many burglaries as statistics indicate but episodes like the actual case shown here filmed for the Daily News by a photographer who happened to be across
The way cost New Yorkers $75 million a year during the last 6 months of 1967 the burglary rate increased by 9% shoplifting industrial thefts and other reported Larsen over $50 many of them concentrated in the heavily Industrial and Commercial Lower West Side of Manhattan totaled some $14 million last year authorities believe
The actual figure may be 10 times that since many such thefts simply go unreported the grandar arony rate increased 15% in the last 6 months of last year about 140 cars are stolen every day in New York in 40% of these cases the owners helped the thief by leaving ignition
Keys car stolen last year in New York were valued at $76 million the rate of car thefts in the city jumped alarmingly in the last 6 months of 1967 up 34% a robbery or assault occurs every 13 minutes in New York this is an actual mugging filmed by NBC cameraman sa Avet
Who happened to be nearby such robberies cost New Yorkers $1 million last year the rate during the last 6 months of the year increased by [Laughter] 31% finally 746 New Yorkers wound up here last year the victim in murder cases New York ranks only 10th among major cities in Murder statistics if
That’s any comfort another thing if you get along well with your relatives and Friends your chances of becoming a murder victim are considerably diminished relatively few murders are committed by Persons Unknown to the victim in the actual case shown here it was the proverbial lovers triangle more cold comfort your chances of dying
In American cities because ambulance service was delayed are actually greater than the odds that you will perish at the hands of a Murderer the police Sol four out of every five murder cases in New York only about 20% of felonies on the whole however are cleared and the New York clearance rate runs below the national average still it’s an apples and oranges kind of comparison so the experts tell
Us not very valid and New York’s police seem to be doing a good job in keeping Pace with the problem the clearance rate goes up every year with the crime rate so the disturbing factor is not so much that the criminal is getting away with
It what bothers us is the fact that in a population stable at about 8 million the rate of criminal offenses keeps shooting up why a good part of the answer to the perplexing question of why the crime rate is increasing is to be found in the poorer sections of the city for really
Our population is not stable those who have done well in life are leaving the city a new class of poor people is filling the vacuum the president’s crime commission spoke plainly on this subject more than half of major crimes against property are committed by Young people under 21 many of them poor idle
Unschooled the poor and the newly arrived in the cities are also the chief victims of crime the 41st Precinct in the South Bronx where these scenes were made has more reported crimes against persons than any other area of the city these sad facts are nothing new it was
Seriously suggested little more than a 100 years ago that the only way to curb Street crime in New York would be to stop Irish immigration Mayor John Lindsay recognized the problem of young offenders when he launched the Harlem Community Patrol to see whether the youngsters drawn from the immediate area kids recognized as
Leaders could help control crime the community of Harlem wants police protection and they want they want to be safe they want to be able to walk tall down the street and to keep their eyes straight ahead they don’t want to have to look over the shoulders all the time but the
Area where we’ve had some of the biggest trouble are with the young cats you know what I mean teenagers these the young boys 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 in their 20s and here’s where you got the toughest job of all the patrol was tried as an
Experiment for a week and may become permanent but can each community be expected to police itself shouldn’t Society in general do more Society is not dealing realistically with the mounting crime problem the courts are one example of neglect in Manhattan’s Criminal Court the administration of justice has become a
Matter of management of paper shuffling what presiding judge Bernard botin calls instant Justice the number of Judges has not been increased here since 1957 arraignments are on an assembly line basis lasting an average of three to 5 minutes there is a huge backlog in the meantime many of the
Accused wait in jail for periods longer than they would have had they received the speedy trial guaranteed by the Constitution Society has failed again in the jail System more than 10,000 prisoners are kept in institutions run by the New York City Department of Corrections it costs1 125 a day to keep them and that is just the trouble these men at Riker’s Island the city Penitentiary are merely kept there is no real rehabilitation program
Every day about a hundred men at Rikers finish serving their time and return to the community another group of about a 100 begin serving sentences in an endlessly revolving door how was Society served by the punishment these men underwent here not well it would appear most of them leave with
Only their clothes and the dollar for a Subway of bus ride back to their homes only a small percentage of the staff at the prison works on Rehabilitation as such correction authorities concede that prison life does little but reinforce the criminal cynicism because probation workers like judges and correction Personnel are so
Overwhelmed by their case loads little followup occurs in the community among the men hostility and pent up disillusionment with Society are offset only by the prospect of once again being free men good God I can’t stand it another 30 seconds your breath and they fan out into the community many
Of them heading back into the revolving door the record for a return to Riker’s Island is set to be 4 hours it will take a little longer than that but half or more of these men will be Back when all is said and done about the crime problem Buck passing ends with these men the policeman is completely at the mercy of the crime problem he cannot duck it our police come in for criticism from time to time as brutal or corrupt or merely bad mannered and there is some
Justification for these charges but we must be able to depend on the police for they are the front wall in the defense against Crime now they cannot function as well as they might in the vacuum left by social deterioration ineffective criminal justice and citizen apathy but they will function as New York’s police
Commissioner Howard ly put it the police are the omnipresent man the visible Target for the hostility and antagonism that come from a lifetime of Filth squalor discrimination and Broken Dreams the police are actually doing very many logical things to cope with the problem of crime as we will see next
The basic method of policing the city has not changed in nearly 300 years the object is simple to provide a police presence at those places in the community where it is most needed theoretically if the police were everywhere there wouldn’t be any crime so the chief problem of the police
Administrator is to devise a method to get his men as close as possible to the place where a violation of the law or other incident requiring police action is most likely to take place once he’s on his post the patrolman’s job is a combination of guard Duty and community
Relations it has been this way in New York ever since the first town Watchmen began walking the beat in 1693 they were called the rattle watch because of the huge wooden rattles with which they sounded alarms the police are continually trying to modernize their operations most of their new equipment is designed either
To improve Communications or to increase the flexibility and speed with which the police can get to crime scenes or potential crime scenes in all the odd corners of the city when you get home your boyfriend comes and you this is the main switchboard in the communications room at Police
Headquarters 240 Center Street when you phone the police emergency number 440 1 234 in Manhattan your call is answered here I live in a 4,400 calls come in a day and with this equipment it takes between 3 and 4 minutes to dispatch a patrol car new computerized equipment scheduled to go
Into operation this summer will reduce that time to 20 seconds the police are modernizing on the human side also here in the 28th Precinct central Harlem you can see the evidence when the 400 p.m. to midnight tour turns out patrolman Bobb gner works with his white partner Mike mcshain
There are now 1,400 Negroes in the department and Negroes are actively recruited because among other reasons they’re best able to deal with the chief problem here the youngsters modern police patrols might seem about the same as they have for years but there are important differences in the old days
That patrolman succeeded best who kept what was called a clean post the cop on the beach simply ran in anyone who looked like a troublemaker now the choice of Swift action has to be balanced against prudent restraint even on minor infractions okay no crap game fellas no
Game there is a constant give and take between the policeman and the ghetto neighborhood he serves every cop knows that he can become the flash point for real trouble and that affects the way he approaches his Job patrolman Arthur Johnson walks his post in the time honored fashion of the cop on the beat but even here we find a contrast with the past for Johnson’s Post in a high crime area is very small just one block along 125th Street every block along Harlem’s busy commercial thoroughfare is manned in the same way yet despite such police saturation Johnson and others like him can expect to have about three holdups a week on their blocks and there are numerous incidents of shoplifting and vandalism the criminal waits for the
Patrolman to go to the other end of the block then strikes quickly and disappears the question arises how much good can police saturation Tac ICS do the police are looking for a scientific answer to that question here in the 20th precinct on Manhattan’s west side 18 months ago the patrol force in
These 100 odd square blocks was increased by 50% in an experiment today you can see the effect if you do as we did observe the precinct’s key intersection the convergence of Broadway Amsterdam and 72nd Street four Patrol sectors areas allocated to squad cars also converge here the purpose of the experiment is simple to see whether a substantial increase in police Manpower can bring a substantial decline in the crime rate the precinct was given some new communication A’s gear and the number of supervisory Personnel sergeants and
Lieutenants was also Increased the result has been a general decrease in Street crimes such as muggings and auto theft here in the 20th Precinct the experiment in the 20th seemed to demonstrate that a massive infusion of new policemen can reduce the crime rate but is the reduction achieved worth the
Cost the additional 100 patrolman in the 20th cost a million dollar a year if the experiment were to be run on a Citywide basis requiring an addition of 15,000 men the cost would be $150 million a year and New York is already spending nearly a half billion dollars annually
For police services Lieutenant Leonard Cassat could tell you the limitations as well as the advantages of the beefed up Patrol in the 20th Precinct he generally has about 45 men under his supervision on the four to midnight tour that’s roughly one man for every two square blocks in the
Precinct but even with their heavy saturation the police cannot be everywhere at once the hold up of a hotel night clerk is sent a half dozen squad cars to the scene within minutes but they’re too late the Bandit has gone beefed up patrols can reduce crime
On the street but there are limits to their effect on burglaries and robberies indoors Street as follows two unnown number one 5′ 10 CL unknown possible gun if not more policemen how about better policemen at the John J College of Criminal Justice some 2,000 New York City policemen are pursuing college
Degrees Dr Arthur neidhofer a retired police Lieutenant is Professor of Sociology at the college in John J we try to tell policemen what the world is not from the police point of view but from the point of view of those who have studied deeply who have added to the
World’s wisdom we try to show them there are other ways of thinking about the world that the kinds of conceptions that policemen have may be right from their point of view but they must admit this that men of Good Will men with as much knowledge as much insight and experience
Have thought of the world in different terms terms that may be exactly opposite to what the policeman conceives as a reality ity and to me this is the big thing he sees himself as a member of society helping to solve the critical problems of our society rather than a
Man going out to serve a summons make an arrest and do his eight hours of Duty without getting in trouble the police department itself is engaged in all manner of activities designed to improve the policeman and His Image in the community at the 24th Precinct on Manhattan’s upper west side this work
Begins with citizens of a very impressionable age I want you to play and to run Lieutenant ludvic Mackle of the 24th begins a Station House tour with a little talk if I find out that anybody crosses the street against the light I’m going to get very
Upset I’ll open up this door here and you want to go in the police call this program operation friend besides the Station House Tour and Lieutenant mle’s lecture on respect for Law and Order the youngsters are sworn in as Junior policemen if they promise to obey their mother and father of
Course the precinct works with Community groups to sponsor athletic events outings parties just about anything that might improve the cops standing with youngsters they even put on an Easter egg hunt [Applause] I [Laughter] [Applause] [Applause] The idea of winning sympathy and understanding for the policeman is a relatively new one policemen themselves often still think that the best way to deal with most situations is in the vernacular of the cops to knock Heads the public backs up that idea agrees that getting tough is the best answer for preserving Law and Order and particularly for dealing with civil disorders but now authorities who have studied the problem believe that less police force may end riots sooner and make them milder in the final analysis
It is the individual policeman the man on the spot who in each case must decide what to do we’ve been talking about the positive role of the police and dealing with crime we’ve purposely avoided discussion of police apathy corruption and other abuses they are beyond the scope of this
Inquiry next we will look at the citizens role in meeting the problem of crime central Harlem where analogies are easily drawn between day-to-day existence and the biblical struggle between Good and Evil on Sundays the forces for good Gather in scores of churches which do the Community [Applause] at the Upper Park Avenue Baptist Church the congregation awaits the sermon of its Pastor a man who equates evil with just one thing crime words alone do not serve the Reverend oira Dempsey and what he sees as the onrushing Armageddon he and his followers have formed an armed
Private militia to meet the challenge of crime the church Vigilantes have the tacit support of the police veteran Harlem police Commander said it it’s a case of the good guys against the bad in those terms the Reverend Dempsey is clearly a good guy I’d like to talk to us today
About many of these challenges that we face as a church and as we face as a nation now I want to tell you one thing my friend friends there is no justification for Crime I don’t care if you’re black as an ace of spade you are not justified for going out snatching somebody’s
Pocketbook or robbing somebody I don’t care if you’re white as snow there is no justification for Crime I’m against looting I’m against routing I don’t say that people shouldn’t protest I don’t say that they shouldn’t fight if they want to fight yes if you got something to fight for
Fight but I’m against any type of crime that’s committed against a human being for the sake of taking away from that human being something that rightfully belongs to him so therefore it is up to us now to face this challenge I’ll say to you today that the greatest challenge facing
America is not North Vietnam the greatest challenge facing America is crime awareness of that challenge comes early here junkies Hustlers hoodlums are common sights to George blunt who’s 12 and his younger brother Jeffrey George recalls the time his family’s home was broken into and they took some of my father’s papers and I
Watch what they book lock three different times they broke in my mailbox a wi or a dope attic or something a taxi driver attacked right across the street from where the boys lived these two boys jumped them they beat him up hit him this one stab him in his arm they beat
Him all over in his face and everything took his money then two policemen came then they took he took him to the hospital and an attack on an old woman in the park she I came from the bank these to boy they saw and they sned the
Pocket book and kept going she holl she said help she said help help this boy drive me these boys are sixth graders at the fashionable Browning School on East 62nd Street in degree and type the crime problem on the Upper East Side is different from that known by George and
Jeffrey blunt but it’s nonetheless very real here too take Charles maor age 11 over the past 18 months Charlie has been threatened and menaced by bigger boys more than half his classmates have had the same experience most of these incidents are not reported to the police because parents generally do not
Consider them serious enough but who could question the seriousness of what happened to Charlie and one of his Chums when they walked into a tunnel in Central Park not so long ago these kids came in from the other side of the tunnel one of them the biggest one
Pulled a knife on us and said do you have any money we said yes and uh they took the money 35 cents and ran off the other way few would question the idea that Boyhood ought to be a relatively Carefree time but the city youngster learns early that such an attitude is
Not entirely realistic I’ve been mugged about five or six times my mother makes me carry a quarter around in the event I’m mugged I feel pretty scared I always look around thus crime penetrates and troubles even the richest parts of the city like Harlem this is an area of
Homes and family life primarily but rants run to $100 a room and more here in the Silk Stocking District the very affluence of the place attracts burglars and bandits daring daylight holdups have become commonplace and the merchants along Lexington Avenue have become the chief victims during business hours many shopkeepers
Have taken to locking their doors and admitting only those they consider to be safe the survey of this one block tells you why take Mr Lance’s beauty salon near 81st Street three times burglars have broken through this display window to steal expensive wigs hot items on the illicit
Market up the street Butterfields liquor store has been held up three times all within the past year burglars have three times broken into the Venice Meat Market Cooper stationary store has been held up twice and at other times burglars have broken in lovs a venerable Pharmacy in the neighborhood has been
Burgled three times for 20 years Benjamin green operated a jewelry store here now after seven holdups Mr Green has been driven out of business in a recent month 436 burglaries were reported in the 19th Precinct Eastsiders are not known for their Community Spirit but crime statistics showed their area
Ranked third in number of Major Crimes reported a young attorney Steven Hansen issued a call for the formation of a citizen group to deal with the problem the response for the east side was overwhelming we have a problem and we have to confront it we have to meet it head
On the problem is and I I stated uh by drawing an analogy perhaps to my youth I grew up one block from here I went to the Buckley School on 74 Street when I left our apartment in the morning my parents were worried about one thing and that’s whether I’d get run
Over in the street when I was roller skating I am now married I now have a 15-month old son and I now am worried about his being hit over the head when is walking in the streets with him the crowd some 500 people represented a crosssection of the
Area the object of the meeting was to find out what could be done to curb the crime rate one speaker a reformed drug addict told how the junkie operates I had did every conceivable thing that a person can do for the purchasing of Narcotics why I mean not what I mean by
Narcotics is heroin there’s no bounty on burglers uh police community relations patrolman discussed apartment security and safety on the streets the final speaker was assemblyman John Burns Vice chairman of the joint legislative committee on crime there are a lot of groups that have one meeting there are a lot of groups that mean
Well this group must Prevail or we will not be able to live on the east side anymore it’s that simple we will be driven driven out of here than but bad as their problem is the plight of the citizens on the Upper East Side cannot be compared with that of those who live
In the heart of a ghetto like Harlem Leroy Adolf is the leader of a Citizens group organized to fight crime in the Drew Hamilton houses on West 141st Street Adolf asked Albert wals chairman of the City Housing Authority for more police protection it seems that when we
Misbehave we can get of police in this area but are they here to protect us or to watch us I dare say it’s the ladder the tenants charge that crime in the project has become unbearable and only more housing police can meet it the Housing Authority today is spending $15
Million a year of your rents for housing police all all I’m saying is Mr Adolf that if you have needs totaling $10 and you only have $8 in your pocket your problem is money and that’s the situation that we’re in I want to ask you one further question you talk about
$9 million $10 million million a half from this fund from federal funds state funds you know everybody here no one’s seen a million dollars in their life when you in one of these hallways at night and someone’s got a knife to your throat all you want is a cop some help
Some place to dramatize their protest the Drew Hamilton tenant staged an all night vigil before this meeting while you all are debating where this money is coming from all we want to know is one simple answer when can it be done we cannot wait until you take it into legislation
Or whatever you do with it we need it now I have never seen three or four housing policemen but last night they were running over top of each other so if they can run over top of each other when we are having a visil let us have it now this is an
Emergency Mister we can’t wait until next week or we need it now now and that’s what we want to answer to now she want to go the baby Mrs Irma Medina and the other women here are pioneering and ways to get more policemen directly into action in the
War on crime it costs nothing because the women are volunteers the women drawn from the 23rd Precinct distribute literature they handle the scores of minor cases that come into the Station House the women counil troubled people on housing Health welfare education problems the police are not well equipped to handle but the
Precinct receptionist program is so far just a promising experiment the police auxiliary is another story here is a wellestablished vehicle for volunteer service to help the police mayor Lindsay urged more New Yorkers to join the auxiliary during its recent Field Day in Flushing Meadow Park the 3800 members of the auxiliary assist regular police with Patrol work these men work 4 hours a week in Central Park paying for their own horses not to mention uniforms they receive no compensation the auxiliary is trained in rescue work and traffic control those with pistol permits are armed and make
Arrests but the number of auxiliary policemen needs to be increased many times over we don’t normally associate burglaries shoplifting and Street crime generally with what is called organized crime but Milton Rector of the National Council on crime and delinquency contends that there is an intimate relationship between them uh juvenile
Delinquency is very much related to organized crime because youngsters are the first to know illegal activities going on in their neighborhood and if they know it they know their police know it and so when the police come in to put a stop to a rumble or a gang out break uh of a
Group of youngsters uh if the police are the same who are tolerating because the public wants them to tolerate a gambling operation you can’t talk to these youngsters about respecting the police and so you have an erosion of Law and Order continually going on uh throughout the Democracy of this
Country just 45 minutes from Broadway as the old George M Cohan song goes we found traces of the impact of organized crime new relle in Westchester County looks outwardly respectable expensive homes line the pleasant lanes that fan out from the business center some 77,000 people live here but law enforcement
Officials agree not all of them live within the law 109 wiill Terrace is the home of Joe tuo described in the 1964 report of the state investigations commission as controlling most policy operations in New Rochelle well he took the work out and they and they left from
From gambling’s Nemesis here is this man a minister named Albert Fay Hill working with members of his church most of them Housewives the Reverend Hill spends his days tailing gamblers he uses walkie-talkies to coordinate the activities of the women working with him okay and this is what they often see
Fast moving relays of gambling receipts and bedding slips these films were was shot by the Reverend Hill and Hill’s informants tell him where the day works as the gambling receipts and slips are called may be going at the moment a so-called policy bank and nearby pelum is believed to be the ultimate
Destination of the works at first the Reverend Hill was not taken seriously but persistence paid off evidence gathered by Fay Hill’s people resulted in 36 arrests by federal authorities way toward in Washington and S you read me read you beautifully from his Church Hill keeps tabs on many gambling spots in new relle
An operation worth millions to the organized crime syndicate I began to work on this to try to to uh awaken the public and to go the officials into taking some affirmative and and positive some effective action to suppress this syndicated gambling and and um finally
Uh we were goated to the point they kept saying that how did we know it was happening and could we prove it and so we uh actually got this tape recorder and put it on people and sent them in to make bets we still have a great many
Bookie joints here I have undercover people who while reluctant to testify of course since this would put them in some uh Jeopardy uh are willing to go in and make bets for me and and recordings or other ways we have of being sure that it’s happening and I’m am able right now
To name somewhere between 40 and 60 places or Runners uh accepting illegal wages in Nell for our part seeing and hearing was believing this wristwatch microphone and the tape recorder were placed on one of Hill’s informants the informant was dropped off in the middle of newer shell
To walk to a nearby bookie joint the informance destination proved to be Harry’s lunchonette at 58 Mechanic Street we watched the informant enter the place he emerged with the following recording listen carefully Jak I gave you $5 on this I don’t think I got 15 on the horse right Harry to win cash
Walker Harry is Harry kosi Jake is Jake Goldstein kosi has a record of four gambling convictions dating back to 1940 a week after our visit the police raided the lunchonette and arrested Goldstein he is on bail awaiting trial now true enough uh these are not the kingpins in the organized crime
Situation but these are the capillaries that feed the heart of crime and the courts and the police must move against the little people in the crime setup because this is the only way you run up the cost of the business when the numbers Runner or the bookie is arrested
He has a guarantee that his fine will be paid if he gets off with a fine he has a guarantee that if he goes to jail his mortgage will be paid all the food will be bought for the family and the youngsters will be taken care of the
Same as they were when when he was working for The Syndicate so with these guarantees the only way sometimes when you can’t catch the the king is to catch so many of the little fellas that the cost runs up So High by the concerted work of the police the
Prosecutor and the courts that they’re literally forced to move out of town because new relle has proved that this is a business operation and if there’s anything that can uh stop organized crime in America it’s public exposure it’s public concern it’s your and my uh having sufficient
Concern that we will not play the bookie that we will gamble only uh by going to the tracks uh that we will not tolerate illegal activities because we can be sure if we put $2 with a bookie in new relle that 50 cents of it is going for police and political
Corruption as we’ve seen the ways in which the citizen can help with the crime problem are limited at the moment but new avenues are opening up all the time and this should be encouraged in every possible way we must come to grips with the crime problem because it threatens to tear our
Cities apart we’ll look at that threat next crime of course endangers day-to-day life in our cities it also threatens the very existence of the Cities themselves but crime is not not only the seemingly endless parade of thefts burglaries assaults and murders it is mass crime also we call it civil
Disorder in the gray light of dawn after these holocausts Society is brought up short trying to think of ways of preventing the next one the responses vary widely in that respect New York certainly one of the more threatened cities may be typical thank you Anthony imperiali a self-styled vigilante speaks
To his followers before we start our meeting our national anthem record was broken today however I believe we’re all good Americans here I think we should rise for a moment of prayer which our country said greatly needs would you all rise in prayer please almighty God save us from the
Forces of evil which have come upon our doorstep give us the strength to fight this evil so that we may save our country [Applause] amen I am not an advocator of violence I am not an advocator of overthrowing our government or the Constitution of the United States but I’ll be damned and
Hanged if I’ll stand by and watch our city get burned looted and robbed and whatnot while the politicians and the Supreme Courts are passing law making it more and more possible for these black radical animals to exist and to let the Communists into this country
And we know communist has got a lot to do what’s going on this is where they want to come and say burn Thy Neighbor kill Thy Neighbor rape them stick them up and this is where we will meet the enemy and destroy him at the Other Extreme in New York a
Massive Gathering of concern white suburbanites returning to the riot torn Central ward of nework on Palm Sunday to engage in what was called a war for understanding something new whites marching blacks looking on but what permanent good can come from this well-intended demonstration can the answer really lie in a simple display of Concern in the South Bronx the Community seeks a more specific answer in the relationship between policeman and ghetto youngster these kids from what is considered one of the most crimer ridden areas in New York are off for a weekend in the country the idea is to find a neutral
Ground where festering differences with police on city streets can be resolved quietly the Pioneer youth camp near rifton New York is the setting the boys hosts are cops from their own neighborhood in the 41st Precinct but it’s Soft Cell the program is to say the least Loosely [Laughter] Struck over lunch the talk begins Petty gripes begin to surface Sullen misunderstandings are ironed out maybe for good when I was coming over here on the bus got little the talk continues into the afternoon and on through the weekend little we had a little conversation going over there in one
Group patrolman Anthony imbimbo who himself grew up not far from the 41st Precinct house led the discussion what we’re trying to accomplish by being here is we want you people to learn about us as cops and we want to learn about you you understand we want to find out
What problems you have what objections you have towards the police and why and we want to try and explain to you our viewpoints our stand on the whole thing why we do some of the things we do why sometimes we’re forced to do it today there’s no cops right we’re all
Guys we’re going to to fool around we’re going to have a good time we’ll talk out the problems and we’ll find out a little bit more about each other you’ll learn about us we’ll learn about You if nothing else the weekend offered one rare opportunity for release of pent up aggression the chance to push a cop into the drink with all his clothes on needless to say you wouldn’t see that back in the South Bruns no one can be sure what value there is
In the confrontation between ghetto youngster and policeman that we’ve just seen it seems a halting First Step at best but it is at least that now to answer the question posed by the indignant citizen how long are we going to have to put up with the growing
Crime problem well perhaps the answer is as long as we fail to take the first steps to cope with it we’ve seen that training and understanding to reduce tension between police and Community can help better Patrol methods more modern police equipment are costly and of limited value but we should have them
Something must be done about our courts and our jails but perhaps nothing will help more than the realization that in a profound way indeed we all are policemen the crime problem will be solved to the extent that we as a community want it to be this is Edwin Newman [Applause] reporting [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] n [Applause] Yeah
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