Note 107 — Chapter VII · DEMOCRACY AND STANDARDS

“In 1918 Chicago had 22 robberies for every one robbery in London and 14 robberies for every one robbery in England and Wales.... Cities like St. Louis and Detroit, in their statistics of robbery and assault with intent to rob, frequently show annual totals varying from three times to five times greater than the number of such crimes reported for the whole of Great Britain. Liverpool is about one and a third times larger than Cleveland, and yet in 1919 Cleveland reported 31 robberies for every one reported in Liverpool.” (Raymond B. Fosdick, Crime in America and the Police, 1920, p. 18.) Mr. Fosdick ascribes our imperfect administration of justice to our legalism (p. 48) and our sentimentalism (p. 44).