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This Is Your FBI: The Telltale Calendar
This Is Your FBI · February 24, 1950 · 29 min · 3,902 words
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The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI! FBI! The official broadcast from the files of a Federal Bureau of Investigation Presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community The Equitable Society's representatives wanted to nice audience to include certain men and women
who are headed for successful careers. So they did an unusual thing. They asked them to listen, yes, by telephone, by postcard, by personal request. They invited these special people to listen to tonight's message about the equitable society's plan for men and women on the way up. In just 14 minutes, I'll give you full detail on this plan for every man who believes he's going to succeed.
It is offered by the Equitable Life at your own society of the United States. Tonight's FBI file, the Telltale Calendar. Like in a profession, law enforcement has its moments of satisfaction.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's personal capture of Alvin Koppis in New Orleans was such a moment. However, there are also moments of discouragement. Moments when the men whose job it is to enforce the laws of a city, a state, or a nation, are faced with a realization that their task is almost overwhelming.
In the last ten years, the population of this nation has risen ten million people. Of that number, more than 500,000 have acquired fingerprint arrest records. And yet, in that same period, the total number of law enforcement officers in the United States has not increased at all.
Those who opposed any increases in police departments gave many reasons. Chief among them being that the taxpayer could not stand the added strain. That is short-sighted economy, though. Or in the fuel communities which have added manpower to the police force, the number of crimes has shown an appreciable decline.
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