This Is Your FBI: Crime for Sale

This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 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 really belongs to the people victimized by crime. really 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 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. Tonight's FBI file opens in the downtown district of a large eastern city, a fashionable beauty parlor is closing for the day when one of the hairdressers approaches the table of a blonde manicurist.

blonde manicurist. Oh, Annie, don't put away your tray. Why not? I got a hang nail that's killing me. You want the scissors, Flo? Oh, you do it. I'd stab myself. You look beat. Oh, I'm dead.