Kefauver Part 14: testimony of Mrs. Lois Higgins, director, Crime Prevention Bureau, Chicago (26 June 1951)

A Chicago policewoman of almost 14 years and director of the city's Crime Prevention Bureau presented figures on narcotics arrests in Chicago (738 in 1948, 2,230 in 1949, 4,437 in 1950) and described a specialized narcotics court created in April 1951. From p. 281.

Date

1951-06-26

Kind

hearing

Source

U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, via Internet Archive

Retrieved

2026-10-12

Rights

A hearing print of the United States Senate, published by the Government Printing Office. A work of the United States Congress, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The Internet Archive item marks it not in copyright.

The contents of Part 14 (Narcotics) list “Higgins, Mrs. Lois … 281.” She testified on Tuesday, 26 June 1951, in room 318 of the Senate Office Building in Washington, before Senator Herbert R. O’Conor as chairman, with Senators Kefauver and Wiley. The text was read from the Internet Archive’s OCR through page 285.

She said she had been a Chicago policewoman for almost 14 years, had been with the Crime Prevention Bureau since it began in September 1949, and became its director in 1950. She presented the city’s narcotics-arrest figures (printed page 282): a total of 738 in 1948, “In 1949 there were 203 under 21, 1,927 over 21, or a total of 2,230,” and “In 1950 we had a total number of 4,437 arrests,” with further charts of juvenile cases. She described the creation of a specialized narcotics court on 2 April 1951.

She testified as a municipal police official about narcotics statistics, not about any named organization. The figures are as the OCR prints them.