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Show high-class neighborhoods. Thus a new and! serious complication of the crim-j 1 inal problem has arisen, for which no , solution appears to be forthcoming. I were not molested, because, as the chief said: "We never bother them, because they never bother us." Finally, a new police commissioner was appointed, and when he learned of the situation he ordered a clean-up. Then, to quote the article: "There were immediate retaliations. Safes be-' be-' gan to explode like firecrackers on j the Fourth. Hold-ups became as com-' com-' mon as. measles. Cops shot crooks and crooks shot cops. Today Toledo is no longer immune." One difficulty to to be experienced in catching present-day criminals of the professional class is that many of their old underworld haunts which were formerly well-known to the police po-lice have been broken up. The crooks are scattered throughout the cities, of-ten of-ten living in comparative security in I I WAYS OF CRIMINALS. An interesting sidelight on the ways of professional criminals is given in , n magazine article which declares that cities where these gentry habitually congregate to spend their loot are seldom sel-dom the scene of their banditry. The. writer cites the case of Toledo, j once known as being unusually free. i from underworld crime, yet all the time it was the rendezvous for safecrackers, safe-crackers, hold-up men and other desperate des-perate crooks. It was an unwritten law among them that no "jobs" be pulled pull-ed off in Toledo, and although the police knew of their presence, theyj |