War on Crime, ca 11Jul31
Title: Commissioner Mulrooney of New York shows how forces of law are ready to fight racketeers if citizens will help.
04:06:12 Mulrooney at desk reads (SOF): “The racketeer has based his brazen growth on the indifference of the public towards crime. Threats go unchallenged. Heavy tolls on legitimate business remain unrecorded, & blackmail is paid w/o protest. It needs great public courage to check this kind of thing. Call to to report every case of racketeering or extortion to your police headquarters. Do this promptly & you will get the cooperation of your department. The department of New York knowing that actions speak louder than words have cooperated w/ Pathe News in showing a cross section of the activities of this department.
04:06:53 Line of open police wagons or trucks pull out w/ sirens; police biplanes on ground & policeman firing machine gun from plane, coast guard boats thru water in harbor.
04:07:16 - 04:07:22 Title & slug - not useful.
04:07:23 Outtakes - police firing from plane, boats.
Gangsters; Organized Crime; 1930s;
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War on Crime, ca 11Jul31 Title: Commissioner Mulrooney of New York shows how forces of law are ready to fight racketeers if citizens will help. 04:06:12 Mulrooney at desk reads (SOF): “The racketeer has based his brazen growth on the indifference of the public towards crime. Threats go unchallenged. Heavy tolls on legitimate business remain unrecorded, & blackmail is paid w/o protest. It needs great public courage to check this kind of thing. Call to to report every case of racketeering or extortion to your police headquarters. Do this promptly & you will get the cooperation of your department. The department of New York knowing that actions speak louder than words have cooperated w/ Pathe News in showing a cross section of the activities of this department. 04:06:53 Line of open police wagons or trucks pull out w/ sirens; police biplanes on ground & policeman firing machine gun from plane, coast guard boats thru water in harbor. 04:07:16 - 04:07:22 Title & slug - not useful. 04:07:23 Outtakes - police firing from plane, boats. Gangsters; Organized Crime; 1930s;