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After the Detroit riots of 1967, in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association, Doctors Vernon Mark, associate professor of surgery, William Sweet, professor of surgery, and Frank Ervin, former professor of surgery, cited brain dysfunction in certain individuals as a possible factor in urban riots. They called for intensive research to diagnose and treat "those people with low violence thresholds before they contribute to future tragedies...
...when several members of Congress opposed and blocked the renewal of the government funding. Mark recently applied for a $2 million grant to resurrect the Violence Clinic at Boston City but was turned down due to pressure from black groups and radical scientists at the National Institutes of Health. Ervin attempted to start a Violence Center at UCLA but the funding has been held up by political and legal hassles...
...Mark, Ervin, and Sweet distinguished themselves from the beginning by emphasizing the connection between their work and criminal behavior of the non-diseased. As a result, they were able to receive substantive federal funding but also they called down upon themselves heavy public opposition which has led to the temporary drying up of funds...
...Mark's, Ervin's, and Sweet's change in focus of research the result of a change in clinical judgement, moral judgement, or public relations...
...letter to Committee Chairman Sam Ervin, the President declared that producing the material "would unquestionably destroy any vestige of confidentiality of presidential communications, thereby irreparably impairing the constitutional function of the office of the presidency...