This Is Your FBI: The Penny Lender

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Tonight, the subject of our FBI file bank theft. It's title, The Penny Lender. This coming Sunday, February the 18th, marks the beginning of crime prevention week. Its purpose is to call attention to the alarming fact that in this country, almost 5,000 major crimes are committed every day.

more than 200 every hour, more than three every minute. The problem is made more difficult because as fast as the FBI and local law enforcement agencies succeed in putting seasoned criminals behind bars, new recruits step in to swell the criminal ranks.

As fast as some go straight, others go wrong. In tonight's case, from official files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, you will see where these recruits come from. Some are previously law-abiding citizens who succumb to temptation.

Others are borderline cases, hovering on the fringes of the underworld, who finally decide to cross the border into crime. Tonight's FBI file opens in a narrow alley just off Skid Row in a Midwestern city.