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“7 a ‘ JOHN EDGAR HOOVER : ¢ . DIRECTOR é \ - . je Rederal Burcanu of Faruecstigafion United States Departiicut of Justice Washington, i. a. Address of Major W. H. Drene Lester, Assistant Director, Fedsral Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, before the Thirteenth Meeting of the International Criminal Police Commission at London, England, June 7-10, 1937. MODERN TRENDS IN CRIMINOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES GF AMERICA dr. President and my fellow law enforcement officers: I bring you the best wishes and Breetings of the Honorabie Homer S, Cummings, the Attorney General of the United States of Amsrica, of the Honorable John Edgar Hoover, Director ofthe Federal Bureau of In- vestigation, United Staves Department of Justice, and of all law enforcement representatives throvghovt the United States. It is especially gratifying to me personally to have been accorded the privilege of attending and ad- dressing this meeting of the Commission in London, in view of the fact that three very happy years of my life were speni as a student of law at Oxford University, a little more than a decade ago. _— My address is called “Modern Trends in Criminology in the Unit- ed States of America,” and I shell confine myself mainly to a discussion of those typed of crimes oVer which my organization, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has primary investigative jurisdiction. My subject quite naturally divides itself into three parts: (1) The selection and training of law enforcement officers, particularly now we train the investigators in our organization {2} Our idéniification activitie The increased use of criminological laboratories in modern scientific crime detection. ta AS you are probably aware, we in the United States are very fond of nicknames. Our operatives have been called "Feds.," "D. J. Men," "Department of Justice Agents," "G-Men," which is, itself, an abbrevia- tion of "Government Men," and since you are law enforcement officials your- selves, you probably would not be surprised at some of the names,the crimi- nals sometimes call us behind our backs. The name “G-Man” was popularized at the time we effected the capture of “Machine Gun" Kelly, wanted in connection with the Urschel Kidnaping Case. However, the term is much older than that. + : . . a. . siticm ae 2 re er Sn ~ Pa a TTT ~