{"value"=>"<p>James Bronson Reynolds, counsel, American Social Hygiene Association, New York, chairman. Commissioned to determine whether citizens were safer in 1914 than in the 1880s, and what effects new legislation was having on crime statistics.</p> <p>The files consist of: General correspondence of Easley and others with businessmen, statisticians, lawyers, court officials, government bureaus, and others interested in the question of law enforcement; correspondence of Roland P. Falkner, with Secretaries of State, Boards of Prison Commissioners, state librarians, and prison officials requesting crime statistics; correspondence of the committee chairman, James Bronson Reynolds, with Easley, Jeremiah Jenks, Roland P. Falkner, and James Laughlin Phillips; and miscellaneous papers, including the remarks made at the committee meeting of March 31, 1914, memoranda, and a list of institutions and their responses to the request for crime statistics.</p>"}