Excerpt from Thirty Years' Battle With Crime, or the Crying Shame of New York, as Seen Under the Broad Glare of an Old Detective's Lantern WE are a nation of forty millions of people. In reaching the standpoint of to-day, we have met with so few of the impediments to civilization incident to more closely packed populations, that we have taken no thought in our onward march of our own achieve ments. We have lived history, but we have not yet found time to record it. A century of rich and varied experience lies behind us, and one which has been especially prolific in startling social phenomena, and the facts that properly range themselves under the head of Social Science; and yet, it is an admitted truth, that no nation pos sessing so many Opportunities for healthy growth in all directions as this, has furnished, in the way of well arranged social Statistics, so little that is worth preserv ing. While municipal Europe has been for centuries busy in reducing to a science the methods that shall teach her how to take care of her criminal and pauper population in such a way that the ends of economy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.