This Is Your FBI: Crime for Sale

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 transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

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We have an important message on this subject from the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file armed robbery. It's titled, Crime for Sale. Only one person can eliminate crime, you the honest citizen.

And until that is understood fully by the American people, our home-bred army of criminals will continue to increase. Your FBI knows only too well that the job of crime eradication is more than merely hunting and arresting lawbreakers.

That can be and is done by your law enforcement agencies. But responsibility rarely belongs to the people victimized by crime. Rarely belongs to you. In far too many cases, criminals are aided by their victims.

Cars are stolen because you leave your keys in the ignition after parking. Homes are burglarized because you go out and forget to lock a window or a back door. You are held up because you flash too much money, or because you spoke too freely in a public place.

The naming of each bad habit is not important. What is important is that you, the American people, adopt a new and more sensible viewpoint. The viewpoint that crime is almost constantly at your elbow, and that you can aid in crime prevention by doing one thing, by exercising constant vigilance.