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STANDARD FORM NO, 64 co _ O ag Office Memorandum ° UNITED STATES GOVE = cn we eee tee @ Lee ween ce beeen ee te woos a . ene naa mee en at eteea nine Late itl ote ‘ vA Mr. Sons = TO : DIRECTOR, FBI © DATE: Septembpig,, Basen !-'yRoM = gag, SAN FRANCISCO | SUBJECT: EDMUND J. BROWN Mr. Tamm_—_——— Mr. Sizoo...—--—— Mr. Winterrowd_ Attorney General ; State of California b7C At your instructions I called upon Attorney General BROWN on September 1 and explained to him that his letter to the Editor of the Escondido DAILY TIMES-ADVOCATE had come to the Bureau's attention and that we welcomed any specifics he might have to support his statement. The Attorney General advised that he had spoken to you about this personally some time ago. He stated that the editorial in the Escondido DAILY TIMES-ADVOCATE made him quite angry and that he asked his men to araft an answer. He indicated to me that he did not know before I called it to his attention that his letter to the Editor had been published. Attorney General BROWN wanted me to tell you that he certainly did not intend to cast any reflections upon the accuracy of the FBI Crime Reports and knew of no instances of any tnaccuracies and stated that if he had it to do over again he would not state that the California crime statistics were more accurate than those of the FBI. He stated that the word “accuracy” was poorly chosen and he regrets it. In reference to the sentence in the next to the last para- Z graph, in which the Attorney General stated that he doubted that i" the FBI Agents could give equal attention to securing essential A uniformity of local reporting as his office was giving, the AS Attorney General was ‘surprised to learn that National Academy men, for instance, are given training in the matter of uniform crime reporting and that Agents of the FBI are also given some training in this matter and that on their regular calls to police depart- ,.., ments, Agents from time to time have assisted law enforcement tal agencies in the understanding and better reporting of uniform , | erime figures, and that there is an analysis made of - these figures ,* and where discrepancies appear there is an effort made to determine 7 the reason for the discrepancy. The Attorney General of Califoraia «, was not aware of the fact that the figures from some cities, sucky: as New York City, for some years were not published in the Uniform -\' Crime Reports because they were obviously not complete. 7 Coke ey jf rhe weve ays RECORDED - 25 | AG. necutenphe ne mamemepemen SERENE ET mae Ft Barb 20 dee a cert teat eaten ne tage te eae Tee BE tea te ae eaten ee ee weatote