Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Paul Duke intro report on Reagan proposals for Crime Control, including mandatory minimum sentences, stiffer provisions for bail and relaxations of rules of evidence. Cokie Roberts reports Civil Liberties groups against proposal, but Democrats who want to be "Tough on Crime" want even stronger crime bill.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
DO NOT USE Clip of campaign ad for Charles Robb (D - Virginia). Robb shooting handgun on target range while a sheriff watches. Robb pledges "swift and certain punishment" for criminals.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
DO NOT USE Clip of Marshall Coleman, opponent, ad, candidate speaking to group of construction workers in hard hats, calling for tougher sentences.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Ronald Reagan Excerpts from Remarks in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. September 28, 1981. Controlling crime in American society is not simply a question of more money, more police, more courts, more prosecutors; it's ultimately a moral dilemma I commend you for manning the thin blue line that holds back a jungle which threatens to reclaim this clearing we call civilization. No bands play when a cop is shooting it out in a dark alley.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Senator Joe Biden (D - Delaware), I think he (President Reagan) captured the sentiment of the American people with the rhetoric he used in that speech. He said there s a thin blue line that you - the police chiefs of America - represent, between civility and - I forget the phrase used - cannibalism or whatever. And it s true by the way. That s exactly what it is, they re cannibals. This thin blue line it seems as though the President doesn t think it s thin enough. Because he is saying fewer cops, fewer United States Attorneys, fewer customs agents
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Attorney General William French Smith in Senate Committee.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Senator Joe Biden (D - Delaware), So the bottom line of all this is, I want to make clear, this Committee is not looking to throw money, throw it at problems. We re just talking about enough cops to go after the robbers. And my question is this, how do we do that when we are cutting then 11.5 million dollars? Attorney General William French Smith in Senate Committee testifying, If we reach the point where we re talking about cutting into muscle rather than developing greater efficiencies and more innovative approaches to things, than the President will certainly be well aware of that and is not likely to approve any program that is going to in fact, cut muscle.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Senator Arlen Specter (R - Pennsylvania) argues against budget cuts. I will resist the efforts to cut your budget because I think when you look at the issue of violent crime, that is not the subject to cut and this is not the time to cut it.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Senator Dennis DeConcini (D - Arizona) in hallway of Senate talking to a reporter. I don t think it s a new law and order stance. Perhaps focus is that the Democrats are not in office now, and don t want to see it get any worse. And that s interpreted as being tougher on crime than they were.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D - Ohio) standing in hallway, And I don t believe that the programs of the Reagan administration are anything but a lot of talk talk. So I say to you that it has a political overtone, since the Republicans came into office saying that they were going to solve the problem, their failure to do so certainly will have an overriding impact in the 1982 elections.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Senator Bob Dole (R - Kansas) in the hallway, to say that we re going to spend more money and reduce the crime rate, it won t sell any more with the American people. So I don t see any political value there. I see more political value frankly, in the tough enforcement, encouraging judges to met out heavier sentences where there should be in the use of firearms, and other things. And I think finally, trying to have an economic recovery.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981 - Crime Control
Paul Duke and Cokie Roberts in studio, discussion of the importance of the crime issue for the 1982 elections. Democrats have wised up to the fact that crime is a big issue with voters. Discussion of Reagan plan to fight crime without spending more, need to build more prisons enforcement is increased.