They Get Rich From The Poor

Series: New York Illustrated Series

Year Published: 1970

Creator: WNBC-TV

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Points out that a lot of money can be made in poor neighborhoods by exploiting people's hopes and dreams with the numbers racket and other forms of gambling. Explains that through labor racketeering and by using gambling profits to ply the narcotics trade, organized crime further debilitates and corrupts the community.


No holdings listed.


Related films: