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...from New York to Los Angeles have enjoyed sizable decreases in crime in general and murder rates in particular. Part of the explanation is that federal agencies like the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have shrunk their headquarters' staff to attach more agents to local police. FBI Director Louis Freeh credits ``safe streets'' campaigns in 117 communities for reducing crime rates by breaking up street gangs...
...inexplicable,'' says Attorney General Janet Reno. Her prescription: more secure facilities for violent youthful offenders and follow-up after they are released. ``We're going to have to support them and assist them in getting a job,'' she says. ``Otherwise it's going to be a revolving door.'' Freeh recommends focusing on the increasing number of children brought up in what he calls ``no-parent homes.'' In 2005, says Freeh, many of these neglected youngsters will be angry teenagers who ``will literally be killing people...
When it comes to drinking on -- or off -- the job, FBI Director Louis Freeh will be merciless. While the CIA's James Woolsey was getting hammered for his agency's leniency toward superspy Aldrich Ames' flagrant drunkenness, Freeh issued a blistering Alcohol Policy memo warning agents that even off-duty misconduct caused by drinking will have "harsh consequences," up to dismissal. Even when drinking moderately at a social function, G-men and -women must arrange for a designated driver. Freeh, says one, is "J. Edgar Hoover with kids...
When FBI director Louis Freeh visited Moscow last month, he told cadets and faculty of the Russian Police College that "one criminal threat looms larger than the others: the theft or diversion of radioactive materials in Russia and Eastern Europe." Organized-crime groups, he warned, would try to obtain such materials "to be offered for sale to the highest bidder." The Russian daily Izvestia makes the same judgment. It reported recently that more than 5,500 criminal gangs were operating in Russia, and "the lion's share of their operations involve stealing fissionable nuclear materials and smuggling them...
...technology would also open up a wide array of dangerous opportunities for computer hackers and phone company employees. Freeh plays down that possibility, though he acknowledges that it exists. In any case, he argues, the benefits of the plan, in terms of enhanced law enforcement, outweigh the disadvantages of reduced privacy. Coming from the director of the FBI, that's not an unexpected sentiment...