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Shame of N.Y. 33: [NYC Police Commissioner] O’Brien planned to assign ten police captains to check on gambling arrests [...] to see that [...] there were no ‘accommodation’ arrests. These are arrests made by plainclothesmen with the connivance of the bookmakers who know they will suffer nothing more than a fine. Shame of N.Y. 8: Any of the aforementioned [reporters] could have given aces and spades to [...] Lincoln Steffens, who chronicled corruption exactly fifty years ago in this country, and left him far behind. Shame of N.Y. 7: Very few beats have been scored by reporters at Police Headquarters in New York City in recent years. Shame of N.Y. 22: this move was an annoyance to the bookies too because they had to contact other police department ‘collectors’ of ‘ice’ and sometimes these cops had a more exaggerated idea of what the protection money should amount to. Shame of N.Y. 65: Despite the Lucheses’ lavish entertaining [...] they have not yet been able to ‘crash’ the Lido Beach social set [ibid.] 84: Often they doubled as warrant-servers for the Porno Squad [...] crashing peep shows, live sex emporiums, and adult bookstores. Shame of N.Y. 12: Tammany cut itself further in on this melon [...] and the divvy was reduced among the captains to something around $1,000,000 a year. Shame of N.Y. 167: [I]nvestigators who looked into his activities got no help from him. He simply fluffed them off. Shame of N.Y. 142: [ILA president Joseph P.] Ryan can give such characters [i.e. ‘mobsters or politicians’] the protection of union office [...] by granting charters for new locals to act as fronts. Shame of N.Y. 89: Examiners are told to cast their hawk eyes about for signatures without dates, without E.D. and/or A.D. indicated, signatures of persons unenrolled. Shame of N.Y. 42: A kangaroo court [...] decided that Mangano would have to get ‘hit.’ In a few days the opportunity came, and even Vincent did not try to stop his brother’s rendezvous with death. Shame of N.Y. 38: [T]he syndicate gang [...] rolled into the exposed channels of graft and took over areas formerly milked by cops. Shame of N.Y. 136: The shipowners want a constant, controlled pool of labor, and the longshoremen live for the day of the ‘big killing’. Shame of N.Y. 141: Among the rackets on the piers are: [...] loan-sharking, with the ‘sharks’ charging as high as 500 percent interest. Shame of N.Y. 12: He divided it up into fourteen districts [...] , and the ‘take’ was over $3,000,000 a year, by Devery’s own admission. However, Tammany cut itself further in on this melon when the graft was exposed. Shame of N.Y. 5: The Mob and the mob politicians controlled by the organization really believe that they are indispensable to the people. Shame of N.Y. 22: Instead of sending out wiretappers to ‘sit’ on suspected phones, the telephone company would merely switch calls, made from and to bookie joints, to McDonald’s probe HQ. Shame of N.Y. 42: Joseph Stracci, alias Joe Stretch, who racked up an extensive criminal record in the 107th Street Mob. Shame of N.Y. 141: Among the rackets on the piers are: [...] loan-sharking, with the ‘sharks’ charging as high as 500 percent interest. Shame of N.Y. 65: The [police] would count on three collars at each spot—the two guys working the floor and the one guy ‘on the stick’ at the door.