Comment by Hon. VICTOR H. BLANC, District Attorney, Philadelphia, Pa.

Comments on

NARCOTIC DRUGS

Interim report of the Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association on Narcotic Drugs

by Advisory Committee to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics

JULY 3, 1958.

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ABA-AMA, No Match for HJA, from The Drug Hang-Up, by Rufus King

Drug Addiction, Crime or Disease? The Report of the Joint ABA-AMA Committee on Narcotic Drugs

Comment by Hon. VICTOR H. BLANC, District Attorney, Philadelphia, Pa.

Our records are perfectly clear that the narcotics raids conducted during 1955, 1956, and 1957 in Philadelphia resulted in a marked falling off of part one offenses (major crimes) in our city. The following figures establish this fact. They are for a period of 2 months before each raid and 2 months following each raid. I sincerely trust that these figures will be of some value for our committee's final report.

Raid	Before	After	Percentage Decrease
April, 1955	6,390	4,417	30.9
May, 1956	6,178	4,302	30.4
April, 1957	6,564	5,666	13.7