POLICE HEADQUARTERS War Against Crime - Killers On the Run

Paperback. Reprint. On Monday morning, August 21, 1964, Police Commissioner Francis Adams shocked the people of New York with his radio analysis of an average day's crime in their city. Before the day was out, he told them, one of them would have been murdered, 27 assaulted, and 140 burgled. Three women would have been raped and $140,000 stolen. This situation had arisen, he added, because the Police Department was badly understaffed. Quentin Reynolds, the newspaperman, decided to write the story of New York's 20,000 policemen, and includes just about every type of police work. Professional killers, dope peddlers, pickpockets, burglars, conmen and smugglers play out their dramas. 224pp. p/back. Browned pp. o/w Vg+ with no creasing to covers.