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Show 3 LAW AND ORDER alarming increase in crimes against business. categories of robbery, burglary, and larceny increased cent between 1965 and 1970, and 182 per cent between 1960 There has been • an The combined 13 per and 1970. The retail sector suffered the largest proportionate loss to crime, losing $4.8 billion in 1970. The manufacturing sector lost $1.8 billion, wholesaling $1.4 billion, and service enterprises such as hotels and hospitals, $2 billion. • • The costs of private crime prevention efforts amounted to over $3.3 billion in 1969. This represents an increase of 150 per cent be tween 1960 and 1969, compared to an increase in public law en forcement expenditures of 90 per cent during the same period. Criminals are becoming highly mobile in tion by local or state authorities. • The F.B.I. has noted in its 1965, an effort to escape detec Uniform Crime Reports that since 60 per cent of federal offenders had arrest records in two states for serious crimes reported on the F.B.I. crime in over or more dex.> Forty per cent of the criminal rearrests made in the late made in a state other than the one where the original 1960's were arrest was made." To counter these criminal threats, there are nearly 30,000 separate, independent police forces in the U.S. with extremely dedicated personnel, but these forces often suffer from underfunding and a lack of professional expertise. Nearly 90 per cent of all local governments have police forces with less than 10 full-time personnel. In most cases these forces cannot provide full patrol or investigative services for their citi • zens.16 • Large cities representing less than 10 ments have But in there over none per cent of local govern 80 per cent of the nation's local police manpower. of the nation's 114 multi-county metropolitan areas is over police agency that exercises crime in the entire area." a general or special jurisdiction • In 1966 the National League of Cities conducted a' survey in which 284 cities indicated that their police departments were oper ating at an average of 5 per cent below authorized strength and 10 IS per cent below preferred strength. • A year later the International City Management Association |
