This is Your FBI: The Innocent Witness

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You'll hear it in about 14 minutes. Tonight's FBI file, the Innocent Witness. There is a feeling shared by many citizens that the current crime wave, the most serious and widespread in the history of the nation, is the concern of local police departments and other law enforcement agencies. In part, that is true, because it is their problem, but

is not their problem exclusively. The crime wave is also your problem, and it is shared with you by every other decent law abiding American. Because any study of the 5,000 major crimes committed in this country every day shows that the great majority of victims are innocent people. But that reason it is to your best interest to see to it that your local

police department is as strong as possible, and is free from corrupt political influence as it can be. In that way, you will be helping to protect everyone in your community, including yourself. Tonight's FBI file opens on the crowded west side of a large eastern city, in a hall in in his modest neighborhood.