'Case Dismissed': The Unreasonable Leniency of American Justice
Crime waves have followed every great war. Are our American courts any better prepared to protect the community against the gangsters who flourished in 1919 and may flourish again?
Virgil W. Peterson was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1930. For twelve years he was a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and during seven of those years was in charge of the FBI offices in Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Boston. Since April 1942, he has been Operating Director of the Chicago Crime Commission.
Crime waves have followed every great war. Are our American courts any better prepared to protect the community against the gangsters who flourished in 1919 and may flourish again?
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