"The overwhelming temptation for the possession of money, wealth, affluence and power is so great that all your laws, and enforcement agencies are powerless against your criminal elements, with venal tendencies in some members of your police departments, and in certain members of large political organizations, one of them is reported to be dominated by an underworld leader, and whose friends are appointed to official positions, when a court witness can be intimidated or murdered, when the services of a murderer can be ordered or bought, as per a statement to your senate crime committee that there exists an underworld nationwide Murder, Inc., when some of your law enforcement officers, some of their superiors and some politicians associate with and are friends and partners of criminals, when gangsters who not only contribute to and are active in political campaigns buy protection, and carry open shooting and bombing wars on the crowded streets of your cities in the daytime, and when your most secret government and arms information is easily obtained by other nations through your traitors and their spies, you certainly have no law enforcing security."
"Washington, (AP)—F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover said today that crimes in 1946 broke all records for the past decade. Every 5.7 minutes, there was a case of murder, manslaughter, rape, or assault to kill."
"Major crimes in all categories throughout the country totaled 1,685,203 last year, an increase of 119,622 over 1945, he said in a report. He noted this meant an average of one such crime every 18.7 seconds."[30]
"Moscow, Ida., July 20 (UP)—A serious crime is being committed in the United States every 18.7 seconds, Paul Shine, assistant F.B.I. agent in charge at Butte, Mont., told Law Enforcement Institute delegates today at the University of Idaho, here."
"Shine added that each day 36 persons are slain, 150 robberies take place and 1,032 burglaries are committed."[31]
"What about the numbers of hushed up, unknown and secret crimes?
"Your overcrowded prisons where you confine your adults and very often in the same cells mixed with your juvenile offenders are breeding places not only for many hardened criminals and murderers but also habitual sex depraved fiends. Many of them become habitual drug addicts, induced by their fellow prisoners, or by some of their guards who sell the drugs.
"There is no need for me to detail all crimes and offenses for material gain; where your Octopus excels in his violent and constant aggressiveness. Your newspapers every day, everywhere give you innumerable, criminal deeds and happenings.
"You men may have been wondering why I have again gone into such detail to sketch briefly some of the ills of the world in which you have lived. You may feel that we Martians should consider the case hopeless. But the contrary is true. Because there have been and are many leaders of integrity and high principles in your midst, we feel they should be commended and given the support of greater numbers of your citizens. The paths of virtue, kindness and tolerance should be made more attractive than the paths of dishonesty, vice and crime. Much of the energy of your people is dissipated in activities of the Octopus that destroy not only themselves, but those near them and around them. We here in Mars believe that there are not enough of your citizens awake and aware of what is happening. Many of those living in palaces, beautiful suburbs, or in the quiet villages are not aware of the crowded living quarters, the poverty and the ignorance of many of their fellow citizens who live in the slums where fresh air and sunshine are lacking, and sanitary conditions are most primitive, where your poor are crowded in dark, filthy small living quarters, where large families with many sick and diseased adults, children and animal pets live together, communicating diseases to each other. These families barely have enough for necessities, causing malnutrition, and desperation. There is no privacy in their home life; parents and small and adolescent children of both sexes live together in small apartments, in tenement houses, cabins, and shacks, where families, and vice dens are neighbors.
"Narrow, filthy yards are full of wash lines; streets and sidewalks are crowded on both sides with pushcarts loaded with fish, fruits, and vegetables and smelly eatables; gutters reek with rotting garbage, but the poor man's club, the saloon, is at every corner, which gets most of his earnings.