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APM SE TROT ma me tet « ere ae oa —_—_=—=_— / f 7 ” Just Piain Drudgery _ ' The FBI's “estimate that two ‘xithion ‘eign _ tures were examined. in the hunt for the writing | characteristics in the Weinberger kidnap case |. ‘before -a lead” Was found ~ is’ -testimony “‘to'| : the unique police service’ © performed by. this fed: eral bureau . . - = ; "No -other agency could ‘devote ‘that much, ale ' 4g “tort to a task described as “just plain” rad: : | r.ery.” No other agency would have the. re 4: a “sources to do a job that could. have ended-im }: } : -disappointment as easily as it led to discovery , _yof the one signature in hundreds of thousands. : ; “which led local police to’ the perpetrator of. |. : _-erime that could not salely be written ©! a ' Americans never have been ‘sure in their \ | Py & minds of the proper place to draw the line be- {: tee + 3 tween local'and federal responsibility. Yet, ‘the |’ . 7 a evolution of the FBI police function. has made |. : @ it clear there is no reason to doubt.that it takes « © - a combination of local and federal responsibil- H -y ity to deal properly with crimes that entail un- ~ usual resources of police skill: . Pe In the states, themselves, this is being recog: : oO nized by .development of. state police agencies + 4 * to help out local police when confronted with i} § crimes too tough for them to handle within -@) “*their limited resources. A federal agency does the same job at a still higher level. It the FBI ‘did not already exist, it would have to be in- vented — and no invention could duplicate what has evolved through trial and error. ny Sa ho 2 me ee ew . ce on