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re re a awiuly 18, 19358 J, P. MOHR hee TIME MAGAZINE STORY JUNE 30, 1958 CRIME RATES FOR INDIVIDUAL CITIES . RECENT PUBLICITY eu _ a -The recent unfavorable publicity concerning the Uniform Crime er (UCR) is attributable exclusively not to any misstatements within the UCR or mis- ae j management of the UCR program by the FBI. It resulted entirely from a terrible , mistake by Time magazine in their June 30, 1958, issue. Completely without justi- fication, they laid the blame for their errors to the FBI in the June 30 issue and again in their July 21 issue. Copy of each is attached. THE JUNE 30 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE This represents a conglomerate of just about everything it is possible to do wrong With crime statistics as follows: 1. Time states "In the FBI list of felony rates in U. S. citles, Chicago . ranks second most law abiding..."’ This is absolutely false. The UCR has never =: listed “felony rates in U,_S. cities'’ We never calculate any rates for individual Cities. To the contrary, we have refused many requests to do so and regularly in. the UCR we caution against such tactics® Time is responsible for the rates they published, not the FRE All we ever publish for individual cities 1e the tola) not eSr of offenses in each category, such a8, murder, robbery, larceny, etc., the police report to us. TAaBs.é #35- P 78 - VER 1997 Rowen) -COPV ATTA C AES. w PIT “* o - * “e 2. In calculating the rates for cities they listed, Time used the 1950 census figures from published Census Bureau reports and the number of offenses for each city from the UCR. They thus arrived at the number of offenses for 1000 inhabitants for each of the 22 cities they listed. Presumably they used the 1960... a, eensus figures because the Census Bureau has no: more recent population figures for os all cities. Obviously, if since 1950,any city has ifcreased, for instance, upwards to pea: 40% in population,a crime rate calculated using 1957 crimes and 1960 census figures * - lg consist a distortion of the trye facts. Sach a city - with : oa 8. That is why the FBI has nev@r dons this, 2 oF oie N, . ‘4 rs ws AUG 13 1958 | mposite" crime sate Sex mech Ge laeee. Wor Lae "RE NOT 2E aes 4 | ; wn! te aoe Raat EPS Sree emntnamine dS & Jatt 2, -marerstly aide e my ee a eee en (3) . we t i 3 peer a : lan rn oe RR LERT in tate tial ie ”