Mr. Munro's own words are most impressive. Crime, he says,
has increased, but not owing to a relaxation of individual effort on the part of the constables, or to any special criminal epidemic. " In the present state of the force, increase of pro- tection in the East End means," he tells us, " diminished numbers of police in other quarters, and so long as the available force is hardly sufficient, as it is just now, for the performance of the ordinary and every-day duties of the police, any additional drain on its resources leads to diminished protection against, and consequent increase of, crime." Surely this is a matter which requires the immediate attention of the Government. It is a national scandal that the vagaries of a single ruffian should imperil the safety of life and property in the greatest city in the world.
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