Word: laws
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...cites the FBI figures without qualification: "If the present rate of new crime continues, the number of rapes and robberies and assaults and thefts in the U.S. today will double by the end of 1972." He talks of the U.S. as the country with the "strongest tradition of law and order, now racked by uprecedented lawlessness...
...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...
When Wallace says that force is the only way to ensure law and order he is far from alone. Last week the Dem ocratic National Committee received results of four regional polls on the issue, each asking whether
...largely true, as politicians never tire of remarking, that respect for law and authority-whether in the form of the cop or the university or the President-has diminished markedly in the last generation. However, a society that expects to keep challenge within reasonable bounds must retain a sense of perspective. Demands that the letter of every law be enforced to the full are risible. Myriad statutes range from Internal Revenue Service rulings to Coast Guard safety regulations for pleasure boats, and hundreds of such laws are widely flouted by the most respectable citizens. It is seldom that a responsible...
...thing, the U.S. Constitution guarantees as much individual liberty as public safety will allow. To uphold that elusive ideal, the policeman is supposed to mediate family disputes that would tax a Supreme Court Justice, soothe angry ghetto Negroes despite his scant knowledge of psychology, enforce hundreds of petty laws without discrimination, and use only necessary force to bring violators before the courts. The job demands extraordinary skill, restraint and character-qualities not usually understood by either cop-hating leftists, who sound as if they want to exterminate all policemen, or by dissent-hating conservatives, who seem to want policemen...