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This Is Your FBI: The Swampland Fugitive
This Is Your FBI · May 20, 1949 · 29 min · 3,999 words
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Tonight's FBI file, the Swamp Plan, Fugitin! The number of criminals in this country is constantly increasing, and it climbs so fast that it is impossible to bring you an up-to-the-minute count.
For instance, even as you said listening to this program, a major crime is being committed somewhere. In a few seconds, still another major crime will have been committed. And the great probability is that at least one of those crimes will be committed by a person with a previous arrest record.
For more than half of those people arrested last year proved to have been more than mere novices. The fact that many of these people with records were free to commit another illegal act is due to an over-leanancy on the part of many local parole boards.
over leniency that adds considerably to the job not only of your FBI, but also of your state and municipal law enforcement agencies. Another contributing factor to making their job the difficult one, and nothing can be done about this, is the fact that crime knows no geography. It can happen anywhere in the heart of a big city, or as in tonight's case
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