Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what? Great resources and balky institutions-what can the President do? Much of the advice that he has been tendered reflects the impatience inherent in the American temperament. J. Irwin Miller, a leading Republican and a much respected Middle West business leader, believes that the problems of the ghettos, crime and domestic unrest are so critical that they justify "going to war." By this he means mobilizing the nation as in World War II, when all of its energies were focused on the one goal of defeating Germany and Japan. The Kerner Commission on civil disorders said that the country...
...Crime...
Deeply concerned about law and order, Americans tend to look at crime in only one dimension, focusing on the chase and the capture. They tend to ignore the courts, the prisons and the conditions that cause crime. The Federal Government can probably do less about crime than it is often assumed. But with relatively modest expenditures?or no expenditures at all?the Government can help merely by re-examining the problems. Almost all authorities on crime agree, for example, that many social infractions now classed as crimes?drunkenness, drug addiction and homosexual relations between consenting adults?are not matters...
...Nixon Administration could prod Americans into looking anew at crime by asking that federal law be brought into line with sociological and psychological thinking?not to mention the facts of life. It should also research better ways of handling such problems as drunkenness and drug addiction. Marijuana laws, in the eyes of many young people the worst example of hypocrisy and repression, should be reexamined, with more research provided on marijuana's long-term effects...
...Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to the full legal authorization of $300 million. Whatever President Nixon does, he will not find quick, inexpensive solutions. One exception: passage of a strong gun-control law that would not only register all guns but also curb ownership for anything but hunting. Without gun control, all other measures are half steps...