Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position papers issued so far, both Humphrey and Nixon propose large-scale federal assistance to local law-enforcement, judicial and correction agencies. Both emphasize the need for a major attack on organized crime and an enlarged role for the Justice Department. However, Humphrey's proposals are considerably more detailed. He recommends, for instance, the establishment of "regional crime institutes" to do research and provide training and technical services for local law-enforcement agencies. And it is Humphrey who envisions the more prominent role for the Federal Government. To this, the Vice President adds strong and constant stress...
Humphrey is in trouble on the issue partly because his stand is not responsive to many whites' fears of the Negro; but more importantly because even well-meaning whites have become deeply skeptical about the liberal proposition that social and economic improvements necessarily diminish crime...
...argue that income tax evasion-or winking at gambling, prostitution or even pot-is comparable to major, violent crime. Yet such common transgressions symbolize an important fact: some laws are simply petty, unrealistic, unenforceable or unjust. The discrepancies affect the most trivial as well as the most important matters. If no one had had the courage to challenge state and local segregation
Politically, policemen are usually conservative. The policeman, says Berkeley Criminologist Gordon Misner, "pictures himself as the crime fighter standing alone against the Mongol hordes, without the support of the public, the politicians or the courts. You don't often find a liberal in policing. And if you do, by the time he's been in a while-longer, he's going to be voting for Governor Wallace...
...presidential crime commission offered a partial solution to overworked police forces: Split up the policeman's job three different ways. Under this plan, a "community service officer," often a youth from the ghetto, would perform minor investigative chores, rescue cats, and keep in touch with combustible young people. A police officer, one step higher, would control traffic, hold back crowds at parades, and investigate more serious crimes. A police agent, the best-trained, best-educated man on the ladder, would patrol high-crime areas, respond to delicate racial situations, and take care of tense confrontations...