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eae oot ate eat ee ena DF eat tl are-of-the efforts of your fel-: low public officiale-—__— _° Brown claimed Los An- geles “consistently lags be- hind the rest of the state in the number of arrests which were actually brought to court” in 1959 and 1960. The statistics showed the Los Angeles percentage of filings on actual arrests was -only 29% as compared to 35% figures for Alameda, San Diego and San Francis- co counties. \ The case filing percentage fell to 25% in 1960 in Los Angeles while San Francisco slipped to 30% and Alameda dropped to 295¢ with no com-| parable figures available for San Diego, according to Brown. Turning to the specific tsubject of narcotics law en-. forcement, the governor was. ‘even more critical of the Los! |Angeles operations. | Convictions Low i “The State Department of ‘Corrections,’ Brown assert- ed, “reports that in 1960 only one of every six persons ar- irested on felony narcotics ‘charges -in Los Angeles \County was convicted. | | '- “In the rest of the state. a| ‘conviction was obtained fori ‘every 3.1 arrests. { | “In 1958 and’ 1959,” the \governor continued, “the Los Angeles ratio was one for} each 5.4 arrests. 1 “Outside Los Angeles the ratio was one for each 2.6 ar-: rests in 1959 and one for: three in 1958.” ! The governor concluded | his statistical survey by. painting out the 1960 felony! ctime rate per 100,000|popu-| jatjion was 3,093 reporjed in 'Lds Angeles but less} than’ jone-third that number, or j 1146 in the rest of the state.. :7-=Will Meet Them : Brown, who crersd—the; ‘release of his new charges; ‘before leaving Friday for al iweek of fishing in Mexico,| told Parker and Pitchess he! is willing to sit down with| them any time and work out improvements in the admin-j - istraton.of crimin2!iustice. |~*T ask only that the con- versations be temperate, fair ‘and free from the unfor-; jtunately political atmosphere! jn which your recent discus-| sions have been held,” hel! said. ; Brown, Parker and Pitch-: iess have recently been in- volved in a running verbal |p ttle over the question of a {s iffer narcotics penalty pro- iggam on which the goverqor [hds stated he has sevet}] lreservations. :