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July 2l, 1952 Honorable Edmund G. Brown Attorney General State of California §60 State Building San Francisco 2. California My dear Mr. Attorney General: 1 have read an article appearing in the San Francisco Examiner of July 16, 1958, captioned FBI Crime Report Unfair, Brown Says. Ihave also read the article appearing in Time magazine under date of June 30, 1958, showing a listing of crime rates for selected large cities in the United States. With reference to the article in Time magazine I am enclosing for a your information a copy of my letter of July 18, 1958, to the editor of Time Iam also enclosing a copy of the Uniform Crime Reports bulletin for 1957 for your convenience and I would like to point out that the only place his publication where we make any attempt to indicate the trend of crime California appears on page 92. On this page we show the number of offenses rBported to the FBI by 186 cities in California during each of the years 1956 and +1817. Only the number of offenses is shown since we did not convert the figures b terms of the number of crimes per unit of population. These figures show - at the total crimes reported to us by these cities in California increased 12.9 |; ned cent {rom 1958 to 1957 which I am sure you will agree is quite close to the v 12.8 per cent increase which you are quoted as indicating for California in the item in the San Francisco Examiner mentioned above. We did not make any; statement in the Uniform Crime Reports bulletin to the effect that California crime increased 35 per cent as you ingyoated wre press. 7 VJ Boardmof FE :pah VY sintbfely yo re J ws > - ff 7 ! tb /y oo. wont (6) pi . J. Edgar Hoover Vb pe ir a 7 Nease —-—SAC, Los Angeles (Enclosures - 2) AAEN\Q JUL 24 1958 we Rosen 4-=-SAC, Sam Diego (Enclosures - 2) OY. x ee : Trotter ace San Francisco (Enclosures - John Edgar Hoovef™™ {0 —""~ Clayton — — v4 JUL ») Q ING 2) Cirector ek ac : Holloman’ —. aie. noom C1,Address obtained from Crime Records. W. C. Sullivan tt — -