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LAW ENFORCEMENT BULLETIN 'D66T~ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE J. EDGAR HOOVER, DIRECTOR JULY 1965 VOL. 34, NO. 7 THE COVER-Director J. Edgar Hoover estab· lished the FBI National Academy in 1935. See 30th anniversary article beginning on page 2. LAW ENFORCEMENT BULLETIN CONTENTS Message From Director J. Edgar Hoover 1 The FBI National Academy-Thirty Years of Progress Through Training . 2 The Morals Squad, by William M. Lombard, Chief of Police, Rochester, N.Y. Taking Inventory, by Dwight]. Dalbey, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation 12 Nationwide Crimes cope 13 Investigators' Aids 23 Wanted by the FBI 24 Published by 'he FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Washington, D.C. 20535 WE CAN EXPECT the coming weeks to present a pied" appearance often discourage and prevent stiff challenge to law enforcement. Predictions burglaries. are prevalent throughout the country for a "long, Crimes against property, however, are only a hot summer" because of anticipated increases of minor part of the problem. Far more appalling disturbances and violent crimes. are the vicious attacks on defenseless children by We would hope the prognosticators of these sexual deviates and the murders, rapes, and ag- ominous conditions are wrong; we would hope gravated assaults which register sharp rises dur- that a recordbreaking summer of strife and law- ing the summer. The intensity and frequency of 1u1ness can be averted. But in addition to the these violations haunt every community. Law annual seasonal increase of summertime crime- enforcement is still searching for effective pre- crimes of passion and violencewe can also ex- ventive action against them, and certainly, neg- ~ ect difficulties and violations connected with ligence and public indifference do not lessen the . rotest marches and demonstrations occurring burden. across the Nation. Summer is also the season of the hitchhiker Law enforcement officials know from experi- and wanderer. The motorist who stops and ence that carelessness by the individual citizen is opens his car door to a stranger may be asking for one factor in crime causation, especially during a death ride for himself and his family. Many the summer. The relaxed atmosphere and care- times, the innocentlooking young man on the free living are conducive to enjoyment and roadside is a triggerhappy or knifewielding pleasure, but they also provide the criminal more killer. For safety's sake, drivers should exer- opportunities to strike. cise that part of valor considered bestdiscre- Each summer, countless Americans unwit- tionand pass up hitchhikers. tingly conduct "open houses" for thieves. They depart for vacation sites without providing Just how "long and hot" the summer will be proper protection of their homes while away. depends on how well law enforcement and the On return, they are aghast to find their dwellings public combine efforts to contain seasonal out- ransacked and valuable property stolen. A few breaks. Let us hope that jointly we can make it simple precautionary measures to secure the so "hot" for all lawbreakers that the summer will premises and leave them with an "occu- be one they will "long" remember. ~. :H~ w.oo::::' JULY 1, 1965 THE FBI NATIONAL ACADEMY Thirty Years of Progress Through Training Adequate training of law enforcement officers is one of the crucial problems facing our Nation. In our society, the role of law enforcement has grown in importance and complexity; spiraling crime rates are plaguing every community. Communities are demanding more of their police agencies; however, only a few have met their obligations in providing even the basic necessity for professional police service-trammg. This article gives a brief resume of the FBI National Academy, a highly successful professional training effort begun 30 years ago by J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI. A chaotic land, a regressive nation, ing program for all police, together respective departments, carrying wi. a barbaric peoplethese characteris with a combined linking of all law them a greater working knowledge tics mark a lawless country. enforcement through cooperation. their chosen profession. But of what great good are laws With this idea in the forefront, the During the past 30 years, the acorn without a competent system of first class of what is today known as of an idea has grown and developed enforcement? the FBI Tational Academy gathered into a sturdy oak of knowledge and It has been said that law enforce in Washington, D.C., on July 29, training which helps to provide en ment is a profession upon which rests 1935, to begin a 12-week course of forcement officers with the tools to do the very existence of every other call training. Early sessions of the a their duty. Establishment of the ing in life. tional Academy were held exclusively Academy helped open a new era in No one has better understood and in the Department of Justice Building law enforcement-an era of the oc more thoroughly emphasized the im in Washington, but after the comple cupation's becoming a profession. portance of good law enforcement tion of the FBI Academy at Quantico, Webster defines the word "profes than FBI Director 1. Edgar Hoover. Va., in 1940, a major portion of the sion" as "a vocation or occupation re training was shifted to that facility. quiring advanced training .. " In the early thirties when the ation Today, training at the FBI ational The profession of law enforcement is was racked with crime and corrup Academy is modeled after the curricu certainly not indifferent to this basic tion, and gangsters in many localities lum of pecial Agents of the FBI, with need. were better equipped than police offi emphasis on local problems rather The FBI ational Academy has cers, the cry for a Federal police than Federal. supplied advanced training to police agency with broad powers grew July 29, 1965, marks the 30th anni officers at all levels for the past 30 louder. Mr. Hoover, however, rec versary of the FBI National Acad years, and the results have more than ognized this proposition as an inevit emy-3 decades of service in which justified its efforts. able danger to self-government. He over 4,700 law enforcement officers Perhaps a good means of evaluat advocated, instead, an in ten ive train have graduated and returned to their ing the Academy's progress would be 2 FBI Law Enforcement Bullee FBI National Academy Headquarters Building. A> review a few incidents involving I would be either in a hospital or and all this could be attributed to the 'ational Academy graduates shortly dead." fact that our cases were not prepared after they complete their training and Another graduate, after returning properly. Without any records on return to their agencies. to his own department, wrote the fol· the cases, it was impossible to keep A Pennsylvania police officer, a lowing letter to Mr. Hoover regarding them in mind. In fact, our criminal recent graduate of the Academy, ap· his training: "It would be hard to court was something that we dreaded. proached the bedside of a seemingly enumerate the entire benefit and show From our present setup, I am pleased friendly individual. Suddenly, with· the helpfulness it has been to the de· to advise that it is a pleasure to go out warning, a .32·caliber automatic partment as a whole, and in some to trial on any case that we may have. pistol was jabbed into the pit of the instances it would be embarrassing to Our district attorney informs our officer's stomach. disclose the fact as to what was done judge that he is ready on any case How he reacted to this particular before the training school and what that comes up for trial that is handled situation can best be described in his is being done since. through the police department ...." own words: "I grabbed the action as "Before this training school we Success stories are not always reo I was taught by the Academy and practically had no records of any kind ported by the graduates themselves. turned my body, while at the same on anything. We presented to our The FBI is continually receiving let· time the gun went off so close that State grand jury, at each session they ters from gratified citizens expressing the concussion hit my pant leg and held, from 50 to 100 cases and there their appreciation for the training at first I thought that I had been hit. were no records kept on any of these afforded the officers in their respective It happened so fast that I couldn't cases. They were all kept by memo commumtIes. Here is an excerpt see how I could keep from being hit. ory. Consequently, a large portion of from a letter written by a public offi Of course, it was no job to take the our cases were nolle prossed for lack cial in a southern city: "A few days gun away from this person with the of evidence. Other cases were beaten ago our Village Manager sent you a methods that I had been taught. before the jury, while other cases letter at the request of the Village I am sure that without this training, were settled through an agreement, Board- of which I am a member e,ly 1965 3 thanking you for having invited one throw up their hands and surrender, the Academy will get the greatest pos of our detectives to attend the FBI both started running, at which point sible value from the training, school in Washington last summer. the deputy fired a warning burst from A prospective student should I want to add a few comments to his his machinegun.