There are no police to deal with the thousands of squalid little crimes like this committed every day in the city. - Norman Lewis

It is astonishing to witness the struggles of this city so shattered, so starved, so deprived of all those things that justify a city’s existence, to adapt itself to a collapse into conditions which must resemble life in the Dark Ages. People camp out like Bedouins in deserts of brick.

If it is a fact that in Naples everything is for sale, how much more true must this be in Poggio Reale?

In this country there are fifty lawyers to every one policeman, and the lawyers expect to win.