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Charles A. Selden in the New York Herald of August 5, 1928, notes that, between 1926 and 1927, 670 murders had been committed at Chicago and in Cook County. One third of these remained unpunished. Verdicts
Increase in the number of Laws in the United States from 1908 to 1926.
of guilty were obtained in only 22% of the other two thirds, and the death penalty on 760 murderes had been executed only in ten cases.
130 of the above cited murders had been committed by groups of bandits, and not one of them had been prosecuted.
Writing on « Crime Statistics and Police Problems » in the supplement of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, L. D. Upton observed that of ten persons arrested for crime in Detroit only three reached the tribunal and one the penal institutions.
Thus, from an investigation conducted at St. Louis and at Kansas City, it was proved that only in 3 % of the cases the culprits were found guilty.
This is in obvions and violent contrast not only with what happens in Europe, where it would seem absurd that 97 % of the crimes should remain unpunished, but with what has also been verified in Canada, because in Canada, in the words of Judge W. R. Riddell of the Court of Appeal « a trial is not a game but a serious and solemn investigal ion to ascertain crime ». In nearly 90% of the cases the criminal has not the possibility of escaping punishment. If a person stands surety for another, he may compromise not only his property but his liberty, and may be sent to prison in the place of his ward. In 1922, the city of Chicago alone had a number of crimes exceeding those of the whole of Canada.
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