This is Your FBI: The Reluctant Thief

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents, This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society representative in your community.

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Find out why the equitable society calls it America's finest plan for home ownership. Tonight's FBI file, the Reluctant Beat. This study made into the field of crime by your FBI in recent years. A shown that juvenile delinquency is the number one problem facing law enforcement agencies all over the nation.

The most recent study covering all crimes committed in the past year is no exception. Year by year, America is producing more and more junior criminals. Youngsters who will unless headed off keep the crime wave mounting.

For example, and this is only one of the frightening statistics produced by the study, the number of youngsters arrested in 1946 between the ages of 18 and 20 was 24% higher than in 1945. That is a jump of almost one quarter, and as if to prove the inevitable consequences of the juvenile delinquents who grew up through the war years.

in the age bracket of 21 to 24, rolls more than 64%. The time to do something about the juvenile delinquency problem is now, for tomorrow may be too late. Tonight, FBI file opens in a modest frame house located in the suburbs of a small eastern city.