The committee investigated adult delinquency and found that “just as juvenile delinquency thrives in an environment of poverty, broken homes, lack of recreational facilities, and vice”[3] so does adult delinquency. Out of seven police precincts in Harlem, the committee discovered that 59% of men arrested were between the ages of 20 to 35 and 67% of women were between the ages of 21 and 30[4].   Racketeering, the act of fraudulent behavior under the supervision of organized crime, accounted for 31.9% of the arrests.[5] Gambling operations thrived due to “the desperate economic condition of the people who hope to gain through luck what is denied them through labor.”[6] Among women, “close to 80 percent of the Negro women arrested in Harlem were arrested on charges due to immoral sex behavior.”[7]   The committee also documented unfounded warrantless searches. Officers even testified that they entered the homes of Black residents “at will.” Aggressive street stops and searches for policy slips were common. Incidents of casual police brutality and disrespect of Black citizens contributed to the “belief of the majority of the Negro citizens of Harlem that the life of a Negro is cheap in the estimation of the police.”[8]   The Committee concluded, “it is clearly the responsibility of the police to act in such a way as to win the confidence of the citizens of Harlem and to prove themselves the guardians of the rights and safety of the community rather than its enemies and oppressors.”[9]