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...courts--what controls, for example, should be placed on plea bargaining, the process by which a great majority of cases are disposed of without trial in the lower courts, either through a decision to dismiss the case or a plea of guilty...
...still mighty few Negroes in evidence on many of our finest campuses. The channels of communication are weak. Very few Negroes apply. So long as a large part of all Negroes attend inferior schools, they cannot hold their own in the objective college entrance examination. And of course, lower Negro incomes mean that fewer Negro families can afford the heavy expense of higher education. Our colleges and universities should step up their active search for Negro applicants...
Also, community leaders in poverty areas are fast learning the rules of the funding game. And the number one rule is that violence brings results. Well-known ghettos such as Harlem, Bedford Stuyvesant and the Lower East Side continue to get the lion's share of the anti-poverty pie. As leaders in competing ghettos see it, they get money because they have an "in," because they are well organized, and because they act ferocious...
Even though most of the existing high school buildings are satisfactory for temporary use by the lower secondary grades, they are still very old on the average, and long-continued use of them is not desirable. Therefore, in preparing these buildings for the use of the younger children, remodeling should be minimized. Investment in various types of instructional aids and other equipment which can later be moved to new schools should be accentuated...
Watts is a correspondingly different kind of ghetto. When you turn east off the Harbor Freeway, you are confronted with rows of small homes, looking much like any other lower middle-class neighborhood in the city. You cross Main and begin to see dilapidated Baptist Churches in white stucco and small restaurants featuring "soul food." You're wondering how a riot could have occurred in such a spacious, decentralized area, how a mob could assemble in these quiet streets...