University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 25. 1972
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Nixon, McGovern Differ on Crime Issue
By LINDA SCHILD
Kansan Staff Writer
Law and order, a campaign issue vividly discussed in 1968, is a problem that faces the candidates again this year.
"We have evidence that our unrelenting war on crime is beon w," the Republican party stated in its 1972 platform. "We have established a renewed law for law and law enforcement."
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However, Sen. George McGovern posed the following question to a crowd in New York: "How many years of Richard Nixon? Mr. Nixon and his administration are trying to mask a record of law-and-order crime behind a veil of law-and-order rhetoric, which grows more strident as the mugging and in our cities continue to rise."
ACCCORING TO FBI statistics, serious crime rose 1 per cent during the first quarter but fell in the second whether this is an indication of a lull or the beginning of a downward trend in crime. Regardless of how long it has been, serious crime rate, violent crime is more prevalent in the U.S. now than it has ever been since 1930, when the FBI began to record national crime rates.
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From 1960 to 1968, the number of crimes committed per 100,000 inhabitants rose 122 per cent. In 1970, the incidence however, the incidence of serious
crimes documented annually in the FBI Uniform Crime Reports has increased 36.1 per cent. During the past three years the number of people charged country reached an all-time high. A total of 5,995,200 "serious crimes"—murders, raps, robberies, aggravated assaults, larcences $0 or more, burglaries and thefts—were committed last year.
CRIME STATISTICS are the questionable quantity. The FBI is the first to admit that their data were deratement because they are based only on the crimes that are reported to the police. The threat of violence causes and Prevention of Violence suggested in 1969 that violent crime, excluding murder, should be the high as PBI injuries indicated
FBI statistics, gathered from local police departments throughout the country, also run by the Nixon administration. For example, in Washington, D.C., which Nixon's administration has used as a successful example of its anticrime policies, 90 percent of the dropped from 202 to 96 crimes reported a day since Nov. 1969. However, Ernest and Ernst, the company that recently audited the department, said that more than 1,000 thefts of over $50 (larcenies) had been purposefully downgraded to below the $50 level. They thereby became subject to a category not recorded by the FBI.
WHATEVER THE CORRECT figures may be, violence against persons and property has grown more. The police crime seems to be leveling off
among city dwellers, but it has become more of a problem in suburban and rural areas. In large cities, more than half of the arrests made annually involve people living in suburban areas, cities of less than 250,000 inhabitants, the figure is over 60 per cent.
Youths in their mid-teens to early twenties have always been targets of offenses in all categories. But during the '80s, the post-World War II baby crop came of age and became a percentage of Americans than ever before are young. Only often a thin line distinguishes the dissenters from the majority.
Proportionally, there are more blacks than whites in the 15 to 25 age group. The majority of victims of city street crimes
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belong to minority groups, as do their attackers. The poor rob from the poor.
INCREASES IN drug abuse by young people contribute to the burden of overdose, a central of these persons arrested for violations of narcotics laws were
The Nixon administration was made a major attempt to stop drug traffic in the United States. The president has been raised and under U.S.
pressure, Turkey banned the growing of opium poppies. But, although the amount of heroin used in the war has declined, his country may be decreasing.
as Nixon says it is, no large-scale effort has been made to the addicts, who are blamed for most of high-bay street crime.
One inherent difficulty in the President's war on crime is that the police are a direct effect on crime in the streets, which is the most immediate concern of most citizens. The police do not have no consequence until a prosecutor, working with the witnesses, can get a conviction.
NIXON SAID in 1968 that he would fight crime by increasing the number of convictions made, but it is unclear whether they have been obtained for only about 80 per cent of those arrested. However, in many cities police officers outnumber the capabilities of courts and jails to keep up.
Electors' Duties Unclear
Miller was nominated for elector at the state meeting of the Republican convention. She said that she had not planned to get involved, but that she thought it was her obligation to vote. She also told the party said they needed her.
"I don't really know what my job is," said Aileen Miller, Kansas candidate for presidential elector from the Conservative party. "I've never to a convention until this year."
Another Conservative party candidate for elector, Loretta M. Kamerick, Kansas City, Kan., housewife, said she thought that if her party carried the state, the governor would have Washington to cast their votes.
Her confusion concerning the fact that she did not fully understand the general election process several local prospective electors who said that they did not fully understand the general election process.
The Kansas election laws state the primary elections are party wives to Tepela the first Monday after the second Tuesday in December to cast
"I didn't want them to nominate me," she said, "but there aren't that many people in our party."
By PHIL McLAUGHLIN
Kanean Staff Writer
Of the six area candidates for
presidential elector for Kansas that were contacted, only one was sure that投票 on Nov. 7 were more than presidential candidates.
Of these six, only two were sure that they could vote for any presidential candidate once they were elected, although they knew the parties that nominated them to vote on party lines.
Republican electoral candidate from Topeka, William F. Turrentine, said that he remembered an instance in the campaign when he was for the party that nominated him, but made it clear that this was rare. He said that this wouldn't happen in his party in Kansas because electors chosen at the polls would be loyal to the party.
Turrentine, 77, is a retired newspaper man. He was chosen by nomination, the usual process for a Republican convention. he said that the Republican party tried to get a candidate's presentation of race, sex and age.
"I represent the top part of the age spectrum found at the convention," he said.
Although the two Conservative party candidates for elector who were contacted said they accept that the candidate was because of a sense of obligation to
their party, other candidates gave more personal reasons for seeking the office.
A Democrat candidate for state senator said that he didn't seek the position, but when he was nominated at the state convention, meeting, he firmly accepted.
"It's a great honor to be elected by your party." he said.
C. Y. Thomas, Republican electoral candidate, Shawnee Mission, said that the position has been "one of people in 'the right places' in the convention know that he wanted the position. The retired engineer has been a Kansas Senator and chairman of the Republican party.
The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LAAE) has agreed to distribute federal funds to the states to aid local law enforcement agencies, is Nikon's new partner in the effort. The $1.5 billion that LAAE has been used constructively at locales and wasted in others.
"It's sort of an honorary position," he said. "It's a nice way to end my career."
Sharon Seeggin, Junction City candidate for the election for the mayor, thought the electoral positions matter of obligation to the party.
America's prison system also has its drawbacks. It notoriously contributes more to a man's crime than to his rehabilitation. The FBI reported in 1971 that 77 percent of the murders, 53 per cent of the robberies, and 33 per cent of the burglaries and 63 per cent of the narcotics offenders under observation in the bureau's Crime Study were repeaters.
She said that she and her husband were involved in the party because they believed that change things in this country. She said that she was not concerned about the possibility of losing the party or believing the party would make a strong showing nationally.
Republican and Democratic approaches to the problem of crime are similar to what they were in 1968. Nixon is still calling for a hard line against organized crime, for more policemen, more police officers or other agents. The Republican plan is to act against permissiveness.
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LOCAL CRIME seems to be a problem best solved by local authorities and citizens. Improvements of rapport between police and citizens have proven helpful in Chicago. Decoys have been used to fight street crime in New York and Detroit. An increasing number of organizations across the country are employing private guard services or forming citizen patrols to protect their homes.
Each of the four political parties has seven electoral candidates, one for each of the two national representatives. They are nominated or appointed at party conventions usually held in the state capital. The list of seven candidates for elector is printed on the ballot under the name of each party's president and vice presidential nominee.
Voters on Nov. 7 will choose the electoral candidates of their party rather than the presidential candidates. After the general election, the party candidates with the most votes are elected as the president, but firmly obliged to cast the presidential votes for the entire state.
THE DEMOCRATIC party includes a call for an amendment to the prosecutory effort against corruption in government and law enforcement, a drug enforcement program "based on fact, not scarcity tactics," more stringent laws, better handguns and a program of prison reform. The Democrats, in 68, are stressing social justice.
The Republican platform states, "we pledge the most intensive law enforcement war ever waged."
These electors will cast their ballots at noon Dec. 18 in Topeka for the nominees of their choice.
A majority of 270 electoral votes from the 538 members in the Electoral College. The College are expected to elect the president and vice president.
"The problems of crime and drug abuse cannot be isolated from the social and economic forces that surround them," their plATFORM states.
The Kansas electors are paid $3 a day for every day that they tie in at the county electoral duties and 15 cents a mile for travel compensation.
There are no assurances that McGovan's plans would be any more successful than those of Nixon. The programs now in operation seem to lack the depth necessary to become ensoconed in our society.
Georgia legislator Julian Bond will appear at the University of Kansas at 8 p.m. Thursday in Auditorium. Admission is free.
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Bond will speak on “What’s Next?” according to Kingsley Click, Shalimar, Fla., senior and SUA forum chairs.
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In 1865, he was elected to the Georgia House of Representation, and he prevented from taking office by legislators who objected to his antiwar statements. After he was re-elected twice in special elections that spring, a Surpiree Court ruled allowed him to be seated.
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