ids’s Reviews > Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology > Status Update

' The following year, Sweeney ran for mayor on what Phil Porter called a platform “of more bingo, more Hitler and less newspapers.” '

such a colourful description. sounds a bit familiar to what we're seeing now

“Is the sheriff interested in furthering the ends of justice,” asked the Press, “or is he interested in making a grandstand play for personal glory and acclaim?”

“That such Shantytowns exist is a sorrowful reflection upon the state of society. The throwing into jail of men broken by experience and the burning of their wretched places of habitation will not solve the economic problem."

This chapter has had me in tears at how awfully Ness treated those in poverty. Glad this reporter called him out