...presents conclusions concerning issues relating to Boston's high ranking in the cost of providing police service when compared to other cities; includes sections on the importance of the police force in ordinary life of the city, the difficulty in determining what constitutes proper police costs, the relationship of total police cost to the cost of other services (with data from 1912 througn 1939), the relationship of the number of employees in the police dept. to the number in other services, comparison of per capita cost (police, school, all other), comparison of Boston police costs with police costs in major US cities, etc.; also includes Police Commissioner James E. Maquire's dissents from this report; this item was in the BRA collection...