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Crime Does
Not Pay in
W.A.
THE slogan "crime does not pay"
emanated from America,
where the killing rate is the
highest in the civilised world,
but it equally applies to other
countries-and to this State.
It is only by keeping one step ahead
of the criminal that crime detectors
are able to hold them in check.
With the aid of science and organisation,
elaborate measures are taken
to bring law-breakers to justice, and
crime has been an unpayable proposition
for many a person who presumed
themselves clever enough to outwit the
law.
Figures tell us that out of approx-
mately 80.000 people charged with
criminal offences-from petty thefts
upwards-in Western Australia within
a period of five years, about 94
percent, were convicted.
Moreover it is not possible to
recall one unsolved murder mystery
in this State within the past
20 years.
It has been suggested at various
times that a Federal Bureau of Criminology
would provide even a greater
check to crime than exists at present
throughout Australia and would be
especially useful in interstate investigations.
At present a system of interchanging
the fingerprints of wanted persons is
in operation, but naturally each State's
chief concern Is the solving of its own
crimes, and investigations involving
different States are inclined to be
labored.
In some quarters it is considered
that such a bureau would be as
effective as the Federal organisation of
G-men in America, where notorious
law-breakers are now secure behind
bars. .
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