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s Office Mem? = tum + ontren TO : LR. TOLS3i1 7 pate: 3/10/54 “ ee ;OVERNMENT | FROM °: we r Be NICHOLS y . - _ Rosen - fo OT ATTORIEY GENERAL EDMUND G. BEOWN f Ce susyect: STATZ O02" CALIFORNIA ff fielejoon - 7 Holman In the Zscontido Daily Times Advocate of July 25, 1954, Mise Gandy — Attorney General Broun of Caliyarnia is quoted as stating that the California crime statistics are far more accurate than those of the FEI. Apparently, he bases his observation on the fact that the Bureru of Criminal Statistics in California under the Attorney General's office nas full-time representatives whose primary duty is to call upon local a agencies to promote accuracy in the reports prepared and he doubts esti that the FBI with its many other responsibilities can give equal attention to promoting uniformity. 1 ! T+ is obvious ‘that a State agency with full-time field men can * : promote greater accuracy. Whether the additional accuracy thus attained its worth the expense is open to considerable question. At the Bureau we apply every available check to reports received. Much uniformity is promoted with the use of an extensive correspondence program. Reports . that azparently are not correctly prepared are not used in our summary ,; tabulations. Furthermore, we state frankly in each issue of the Unifors : }. Crime Reports tulletin that the FBI does not vouch for the accuracy of ~t lij of the data sent in by individual police agencies. The California State Bureau field men in justification of th - salary paid them undoubtedly find some adjustments to reports previously subuitted. That can always be done. Since California crime reporting — . tg generally of a high quality, I doubt very seriously if the findin ~~ \; justify the Attorney General's deductions that the data collected by his department is "far more accurate" than that of the FBI. fa, x Gver a period of years we have exchanged correspondence with ythe professional staff of the Bureau of Criminal Statistics in the State Ff California. fonald H, Beattie is Chief and has always been friendly At one time he was in charge of the Administrative Office of the U.G. District Courts in Washington, D. C. and in that capacity made available to us all oftheir records pertaining to convictions reported by U.S... Attorneys which we were able to check, individually against our rec rds o«.. apparently doing a little. The Attorne, General in California i bragging and I suggest that nothing may be gained by taking issu rEth +t him on this subject. TOE meer emer renee Sak ners: y on a = (oe BFS ne, . ~ AEL? fnj a, f° Oe A Bu? 14 95a \\' yl FD Go oe tN - : \ ‘ / i y 7 L 1 a \ tie No u ee : A a) i : = : ata we ee a a net ety “ae ; : \ Z “ 7 ‘ . , cal (oo - a . - \ aA > . ww wb gee! ag! t. ° ie Food “ “ - «®, 4, Ve ava u- Ve -