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...Gellhorn told a Law School audience night that civilian review boards for police departments create too much animosity between the police and the public...
...last of three Oliver Wendell Homes Lectures, Gellhorn, a professor of Law at Columbia, said that the only major review boards now in existence -- in Philadelphia and in Rochester, N.Y.--have been totally ineffectual. They can censure or fire police officers, he said, but they are unable to get at the root of Law enforcement problems...
...General Accounting Office and The Bureau of the Budget -- both these agencies have already transcended their simple accounting duties. They now deal with problems of efficiency among federal administrative bodies, such as preventing overlapping. Gellhorn wants the GAO and Budget Bureau to increase the scope of their work...
What is needed, Gellhorn said, is a coordinated system of criticism. He advocated that three government offices be used...
...Gellhorn said, each federal agency must also police itself. "Outsiders' denunciation of botched work can never be as significant as anti-botchery efforts inside administrative ranks...