The nation . books operating in the five boroughs withtheir 8 million population, a figurethat is considered ultra-conservativein the trade, the annual graft frombookmaking alone would mount to$15 million. And when one adds tothis the policy pad, one comesto the almost inevitable conclusionthat corruption in New York is prob-ably a $20 million annual business— and it could well be considerablymore. No one supposes, naturally, thatthe police are allowed to wallow bytheir lonesome in this happy mire of corruption. As the ex-Brooklynplainclothesman told Dash, It goesright up the line, and inevita
The nation . books operating in the five boroughs withtheir 8 million population, a figurethat is considered ultra-conservativein the trade, the annual graft frombookmaking alone would mount to$15 million. And when one adds tothis the policy pad, one comesto the almost inevitable conclusionthat corruption in New York is prob-ably a $20 million annual business— and it could well be considerablymore. No one supposes, naturally, thatthe police are allowed to wallow bytheir lonesome in this happy mire of corruption. As the ex-Brooklynplainclothesman told Dash, It goesright up the line, and inevitablya sizable hunk must be diverted bya conveyor belt into political cof-fers. If it wasnt, the politicians, whodo after all control the city govern-ment and the police and all theother agencies of law enforcement,wouldnt permit the system to oper-ate for a minute. But this systemhas endured for decades now, it stillgoes on, practically everybodyknows about it — and nobody doesanything to stop it. CHAPTER. YOU CANT HELP THE LAW THE UNDERWORLDS gamblingbillions wield such influence, fostersuch corruption, on both the policeand political levels that law enforce-ment in many vital areas in Americatoday is literally beyond help. It isso far gone down the trail of out-right bribery and official connivancethat, even when its nose is rubbed inthe scent of its quarry, it catches noscent and sees no quarry. This determined blindness of thelaw, the rigid fixation by which itguards the gambling status quo thatpours literally billions of dollars intothe coffers of some of the most savagemobs in America, is perhaps mostglaringly obvious in certain sensitivefiefs outside Chicago and New Or-leans. Just across the Chicago cityline, in Cicero, 111., the heirs of AlCapone run a gambling barony thathas defied time and repeated ex-posure. In Jefferson Parish, just out-side New Orleans, the ruthless Car-los Marcello mob, its activities thor-oughly aired by Kefauver nearly tenyears ago, flourishe
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