“_The Cost of Crime._”
It was very comprehensive, and the figures quoted giving the estimates
and cost of crime, especially in large cities were astonishing. Mr.
Smith held that municipal and county taxation was very largely due to
crime; that there was hardly any taxation, federal, State, county or
municipal, but what could be greatly reduced except for the existence
of crime.
In order to come to some definite conclusion as to the cost, Mr. Smith
quoted statistics from representative cities, New York, Cleveland,
Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Richmond, Charleston, and New
Orleans.