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New York Police Tapped 1081 Phones in 1954
Police Commissioner Francis W. H. Adams released figures showing 1081 telephone taps in 1954 under 430 court orders. Most taps aided vice and gambling probes and led to 395 arrests, while earlier years saw fewer arrests. Adams defended interceptions as essential crime information despite arrest counts. He will testify at a legislative wiretap inquiry amid investigations into a Manhattan wiretap raid.
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New York
New York City
Francis W. H. Adams
Adams
Rams
Joint Legislative Committee
Manhattan
Office of Dist. Atty. Franti
Hogan
Wilkes J. Keating
Anti- Crime Committee
Keating