This Is Your FBI: The Floating Stickup

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.

The Equitable Life Assurance Society has nearly 8,000 trained representatives serving over four million members. Tonight, an equitable society representative has a message on social security. Chances are you are greatly affected by the recent changes in the Social Security Law.

Either you're newly covered or if you've been covered all along, you've had your benefits greatly increased. So now is the time to take stock of your financial position. To lend you a hand, the equitable society has revised its famous fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers.

In 14 minutes, Mr Keating will tell you how this equitable chart can help. Tonight, FBI file number 296, its subject, armed robbery, its title, the Floating Stick-Up. Every law enforcement agency in the country receives its quota of mail from citizens demanding to know why crime has not been wiped out.

Tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been chosen because it illustrates one of the answers to that question. There are many other answers, but they all revolve around a single troop.

There are in the United States today approximately 200,000 law enforcement officers, and there are in the files of your FBI fingerprint arrest records of some seven and a half million people, one officer for every 37 lawbreakers.

Obviously each person with a record cannot be kept under constant surveillance. The job of the police is to apprehend after a crime has been committed. But there is work to be done at the other end.