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Show Page 6 The Utah Independent April 21, 1977 Continued from page The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand PO LDC 1 more than five years except for dangerous, repeating or organized-crim- e offenders Granting prisoners the right of free speech, full access to courts and the media, the right of privacy and other rights that citizens in general have, except those that would interfere with running the prison. Hiring by every prison system in the country of an ombudsman " to collect and act upon prisoner grievances. .... lems back in Washington they are getting a lot of heat, and back . . . when L.E.A.A. was founded, because there was crime in the streets . . . they had to do something. How do you do something? You pass a law and you throw money at it, and you throw money at it, and you dangle the money before the state and the local governments. They then come hat in hand and say Give us your money, and in return for that you have to do what you would not otherwise do. The federal money acts as a form Of late the L.E.A.A. has come un- of bribery to do that which would der increasing criticism from a wide never otherwise be permitted . . . . variety of sources. One critic is EdEven more criticism of mund McNamara, a former Boston L.E.A.A. comesdamning from a report by the police commissioner who also spent Center for National Security Studies, sixteen years with the F.B.I. I think an analysis commissioned by the the Law Enforcement Assistance Ad- L.E.A.A. itself. The study examined ministration program in Massachu- the L.E.A.A.s program setts is a dismal failure in assisting under which $160 million was chanthe police to perform their number neled to eight cities in an effort to one duty preventive patrol of the reduce crime. The report, released streets, McNamara said. It has March 2, 1976, said crime has considbeen a windfall for those in the acaworsened in those eight target demic area who want to moonlight erably cities. The study revealed that and enrich themselves. One thing this L.E.A.A. officials at all levels conhas accomplished is that there have ceded that simply do not know been studies of studies. Another of what worksthey to reduce or prevent their accomplishments is to pile paper crime. upon paper and spend money to tell But it is the Centers conclusion you (the police) how to operate when which is most important. It is with you already know how to operate. reluctance that we recommend Bill Baxley, Attorney General of great the termination of the L.E.A.A. proAlabama, says of L.E.A.A. that Po- gram as it is presently constituted, litical considerations dominated both the report maintains. It is too late to the selection of consultants, planners tinker with the program; it is beyond and vendors of goods and services and repair. Congress should admit its the determination of those failure and confront once again the agencies to receive action basic question of what the federal grants. Practical priorities in the allo- government can do to alleviate the cation of funds were often ignored. burden of crime on the American For example, Criminal Justice Syspeople. tems, Incorporated, was given $91,570 Unfortunately, the L.E.A.A. is for a plan for a black-garbenight- more than just useless and hopeless. riding police force of four only one While its wastefulness and stupidity day after that company was incorpor- are at the same time madding and ated. even ludicrous, for all its stumbling One of the most interesting com- and bumbling, L.E.A.A. poses a real mentaries on L.E.A.A. comes from threats to our liberties. Just because Californias peripatetic gadfly gov- dictators may be inefficient does not ernor, Jerry Brown, discussing the mean they are harmless. As Professor Cleon Skousen, forOffice of Criminal Justice Planning, an arm of L.E.A.A. Take a look at mer aide to the late F.B.I. Director this chart back here, said Brown. J. Edgar Hoover, has observed: The There are about 77 boxes that com- genius of the American founders was pose this grand institution called the their shrewd concern for the fuOffice of Criminal Justice Planning. ture Our forebears were not cree maze was freethis bureaucratic to trade Now, willing away ated to reduce crime. Crime has gone dom for short-tersolutions to probup 179c, at least so the latest figures lems. That is why the Constitution reshow. And, he continued: serves police power to state and local lanthe are Thomas Jefferson They using foreign governments. of bureaucratic structures that guage warned that when all governments are forced upon the State of Califor- shall be drawn to Washington as the nia by the federal government in or- center of power, it will become venal der to fool, the people of this country and oppressive. that by so doing crime will be reYou dont have to have a Ph.D. in duced history to realize that every dictator, These programs often were pro- regardless of his ideology, must fedgrams that were rejected at the local eralize and control the local police. Dilevel. They will go to the Board of rector J. Edgar Hoover long ago Supervisors and the Mayor and they warned that Wherever Communists cant pass muster. They will come to have been able to exercise any meathe Legislature . . . and they cant sure of control, their first step has pass muster. So they go to this maze; been to hamstring and incapacitate they translate it into the code of this law enforcement. In The Rise And bureaucratic maze here, and then the Fall Of The Third Reich, Liberal dont know whats going on. historian William Shirer reports how people This is basically a coverup. A coverm it happened in Germany: of whats going on that only the exOn June 16, 1936, for the first time perts, only the illuminati Yes, that's the word he used! can understand. It in the German history a unified police is a very special group of people. And was established for the whole Reich I think it is subversive of American previously the police had been institutions organized separately by each of the You see, heres one of the prob the Third Reich, as is states . high-impa- ct law-enforcem- d, .... long-rang- m .... .... ... inevitable in the development of all tions ten Regional Capitals. Those in on the game are quite open totalitarian dictatorships, had be- about it. On March 3, 1971, Clarence come a police state. Coster, Associate Administrator of Since tyranny is impossible with- - L.E.A.A., told a meeting of Police out a nationally centralized constabu- - Chiefs that the American police must lary, Americas wise men have always be regionalized. He said: Today in counselled against federal involve- - this country, we have 40,235 in the functions of local police, forcement agencies, ranging from n If history is any guide, tyranny is in- departments to New York evitable once control of the police has City, with more than 40,000 police been nationally centralized. All of officers. This many units form a which would seem so palpably obvious completely ungovernable body. that you wouldnt have to explain it to It is precisely the fact that local Mary Hartman. Liberals, however, police are ungovernable by any have a tough time digest- - tional authority that concerns the dictators. Regionalization ing this concept. The problem is that would-b- e Insiders of the Establishment know of police means the end of local they are doing even if Liberal trol over our police forces and the do not and they are overtly ginning of federal control, On September 30, 1973, the Na- promoting the Fedcop philosophy. The Committee for Economic De- - tional Advisory Commission on velopment is a satellite organization Criminal Justice Standards and Goals of the Rockefeller familys powerful issued a series of formal proposals. Council on Foreign Relations. On The Commission, created by L.E. A. A. June 29. 1972, this organization, boast- - and financed by it, recommended ing among its members the biggest elimination by merger of all police names in finance, industry, and the departments with fewer than ten academy, released an eighty-si- x page men. This would eliminate more than statement titled Reducing Crime eighty percent of our local police And Assuring Justice. Presented as a forces. Of course, communities with series of recommendations for deal- - such small departments do not have to ing with rapidly escalating crime, this take the Commissions suggestion, statement calls for the centralized but they quickly learn that it is a good control of all local police forces at the idea to do so if they want their share state and federal level and demands of those billions in federal bait, the banning of all handguns not is- d While the revolution proceeds, by the government. ficials grow more bold about com- The Establishment C.E.D. report menting on what is coming. For the fact that there are over stance, former Attorney General 0 in forces the separate police Ham Saxbe predicted: If we goon as United States, a condition that it we are there is every possibility that proposes to rectify by placing them crime will inundate us. The nation all under the control, supervision and wouid then be faced with the prospect financial maintenance of one central 0f falling apart or devising a national federal agency, a new Federal Au- - pouce force in one finai effort t0 re. thority to Ensure Justice which store domestic order." would be given jurisdiction over the Earlier, on October 1, 1969, then Law Enforcement Assistance Admin- - L.E.A.A. Administrator Charles H. istration Rogovin made a speech in Miami at a Of course the Fedcop promoters meeting of the International Associa-ar- e not so foolish as to have a bill tion of Chiefs of Police, declaring: introduced into Congress which would if focai iaw enforcement fails, then directly and immediately federalize something else will replace it. I do not all local police. Such a measure would raise the spectre of a federal police be vigorously resisted by almost force merely to frighten you. Look at everyone. Rather, they would federal- - the organized crime field. We now see ize our local police through patient a substantial federal effort there gradualism. The planned takeover is an(j not simply because organized to be subtle, introduced through crime is interstate in nature. It is also creeping administrative expansion because local law enforcement has hidden behind a maze of interlocking foiled to do its job. and overlapping bureaus and commis- Already there is serious concern sions. The entire structure is there- - about undercover schemes and ma-for- e extremely complicated, with neuvers. Chester Broderick, the working through many or- - spected president of the Boston in each state. Hce Patrolmens Association, has The L.E.A.A. is, in fact, part of a warned a Regional Government tion in Orlando, Florida, that the scheme to replace local government, Boston Police Department has been and locally elected officials, with re- - infiltrated by the Police Foundation gional bureaus which act as branch 0f Washington, D.C., a creation of offices for Washington. Such re- - the Ford Foundation that all but runs gionalization, long bankrolled by the L.E.A.A. Broderick pointed out that Rockefellers and run out of the Metro many of these operatives were di-- . in received a complex Chicago, major rectly connected with the C.I.A. when Richard Nixon bypassed cording to Mr. Broderick: What has s Congress and created ten federal re- - and is happening in Boston is no by Executive Order. Beyond our dent. It is deliberate. It is purposeful, fifty states, subdivided into counties It is part of a master plan. It issome-an- d cities, we now have ten federal thing that is happening to us now regions superimposed over state, . . . and may be happening to you and city lines. The L.E.A.A. is morrow. seen as the All of this was to be expected, arm of this operation. Its ultimate goal is not When the federal government first to control criminals but to control po- - began subsidizing local law enforce-lic- e departments, and to make them ment eight years ago. Conservatives subservient and submissive to warned that Washington money leads L.E.A.A.s directors seated in the na- - to Washington controls. At that time law-en-me- nt one-ma- na-apparen- tly con-wh- at be-fuzzi- es of-sue- in-bemoa- ns Wil-32,00- .... re-L.E.A.- A. Po-ganizatio- law-enforcem- ent conven-forty-year-o- ns ld Ac-boo- st acci-gion- to-count- law-enforcem- y, |