Show FEWER CRIMES OF VIOLENCE criminals now prefer swindling to acts of physical brutal ty according to english official swindling has taken the place of a f violence as the most prevalent type ot of crime says sir leonard dunning in of constabulary for england crimes of Nf violence olence have steadily decreased tor for years says sir leon ard in a report modern crime Is chiv 11 laed and educated because the crim trim inal of today knows that it Is far and more profitable to swindle hun deeds than to rob one by knocking him in the head it has been stated that there are hundreds of professional criminals in england whom the police are power less to arrest many of these people derive very larg incomes by trading upon the credulity of a certain section of wealthy people in the vast major ity of cases the criminals are never prosecuted either because of the dif dlf faculty of proving the fraud against them or because the people victimized do not want publicity one of the most popular means dur ing the last few years has been tor for the criminal to gain entrance to vari varl ous social affairs and make it a it point of being seen in the company et of well known people then they proceed to organize entertainments beg dona eions for hospitals and by other means to raise large sums supposedly for the benefit of war veterans but which never neier get beyond the pocket of the or gantzer the police claim to t have knowledge of several hundreds of such schemes but they are unable to act as the victims refuse to appear in police pollee court |