Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negroes do, in fact, account for more violent crimes in the cities than do whites; the poor usually do. Although Negroes make up 11% of the U.S. population, black arrests for murder last yea"r numbered 4,883, compared with 3,200 for whites. The overwhelming majority of victims of violent crime are set upon by members of their own race. That is why Negroes suffer far more from lawlessness of almost every sort than do whites. It explains why 2,000 residents of Watts recently petitioned their council representatives for better police protection. James Jones, Negro owner...
Even on the basis of the FBI figures, the notion that a virus of violence has suddenly infected a peaceful society is simply not true. During the 1950s, when reporting of offenses was less comprehensive than in the computerized '60s, the FBI reported a 66% increase in crime, taking population growth into consideration. The comparable figure for the '60s so far is 71%. While Nixon and Wallace charge that Supreme Court decisions bearing on eliciting confessions and the suspect's right to counsel have hindered law enforcement, studies conducted by the Los Angeles district attorney...
...confusion. Nixon reiterates that there can be no order without justice, that progress and peace go hand in hand. He goes on from there to attack the Democratic Administration for "grossly exaggerating" the relationship between poverty and crime. Nixon insists that doubling the conviction rate would accomplish more than quadrupling the antipoverty effort. Despite pressure from Republican liberals like Senator Edward Brooke, he is far less specific about social justice than he is about law and order...
Essentially, Nixon is trying to steer between the crass appeals to animosity of Wallace and the orthodox liberal approach of Humphrey. Eschewing concrete proposals, Wallace aims at his listeners' gut feeling that crime must be quashed by any means available. Nixon attempts to sound both alarmed and controlled at the same time, but the element of alarm seems to be winning out. He cites the FBI figures without qualification: "If the present rate of new crime continues, the number of rapes and robberies and assaults and thefts in the U.S. today will double...
...Eisenhower. Nixon has nonetheless succeeded in putting Humphrey on the defensive. Humphrey supports the Supreme Court. He lauds the Kerner commission report, which Nixon accuses of blaming everyone except the rioters and which Wallace terms "asinine and ludicrous." To underscore the truism that neither party has a monopoly on crime, Humphrey points out that Wallace's Alabama leads the nation in the number of murders, and that states with Republican Governors also have high crime rates ("if that means anything"). Humphrey likes to point out that he is running for President, not sheriff...