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Show J. Edgar Hoover On Juvenile Delinquency C. V. Hansen J. Edgar Hoover, makes the following statement: "I am not ' easely shocked nor easily alarmed. But today ; like thousands J of others, I am both shocked and alarmed. The arrests of i teen-age boys and girls all over the country are staggering; it is an ugly situation, but it must be met. In the last year, 17 per cent more boys under21 were arresied for assault than the year before, 26 per cent more for disorderly conduct, 30 per !j cent more for drunkenness, 10 per cent more for rape. And '! that in spite of the fact many of this age group had already i gone into the war or were productively employed. For girls, !' thefigurea are even more startling: 39 percent more for drunk- - , enness, 64 per cent more for prostitution,, 69 per cent more ; for disorderly conduct, 124 per cent more for vagrancy. And these are only the ones who are arrested the advanced cases." Surely we are living in perilous times! |