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Memorandum » UNITED STALES GOVERN™M Office TO wry July 18, 1958 MR. TOLSON FRUENG J. P. MOHR. . SUBJECT CALIFORNIA STATE BUREAU OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND IDENTIFICATION The attached letter of July 16, 1958, from the SAC ai San Francisc: transmits copies of an article appearing in the San Francisco Examiner under da.* “FBI Crime Report Untair, Brown Says,’ and a lette: to the editor of Time magazine by Bern M. Jacobson of the Law Enforcement Section of the Attorney General's office, which letter Chief William H. Parker of the Los Angeles Police Department recently made public. of July 16, 1958, captioned The Agent in Charge also advises that Chief of Paiice Carl R. Eyge: of Glendale, California, President of the California Police Officers Association, ©" designated SAC Burke to serve on the Crime Reporting and Criminal Statistics Commnyittee of the California Association. Unless advised to the contrary, Burke plans to accept. With reference tu this matter, i would like to point out that Cari Eggers, Chief of Police at Glendaie, serves Of the Committee on Uniform Crime Reporting of the Internationai Assuciation of Chiefs of Poiice and is friendly to th: Bureau. Actually, his name was suggested by us to be a member of that committee I see no objection to Burke serving. The item in the San Francisco Examiner has a number of parts of interest to us. Attorney General Edmund G. Brown (Pat) indicated that major crime rose 12.8% in California in 1957. ~ He does not define "major crime” and then he charges that the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports of California presents the state in "an unjustifiable, unfavorable light" t BI sets the figure at 35%. Weare unable to identify any place in the Uniform Crime Reports bulletin. where Brown could have arrived at his figure of an increase in 35% which he Table 26 on page 82 of the bulletin presents said we showed for Ua t year. @ of California from 1956 to 1957 according - @ van Our crime tre igures for the Se to the reports we received both of those years from 186 city police departments,@ - CO eudewspescs. The total of all offenses increased by 12.9%, which is only one-tenth o! exo" {ome perceng in excess of the figure Brown: used to show the trend according to the state cow tions. ; | fo Fo a Se NOTRECORDED Ss Brown goes on to complain about the FEB mber of crimes _ -_ | r unit of po n the 1950 census, and this appl y “¢ontinuation of “ } the Jacobdon comp|aint ta Time concerning Time's crime Fates ypiad they published ©; £ in the Jppe 86 lasu AN , a , =