Show THE CONTROL OF CRIME what the criminal law needs Is not teeth but brains says william J donovan former assistant attorney general of the united states not the mental activity ot of a specially appointed commission of 0 li lawyers but the concentration of the public brains the criminal la is alien only mentally and morally lie ho is 13 not a denizen of 0 somo some remote island lie la Is living among us a part of 0 the community in ate physical sense he has hag access to the automobile to the airplane and in new york state at least far ar readier access to the automatic pistol than has hag the law abiding citizen these things cannot be kept from him shortening and simplifying the processes of 0 criminal law extending the power ot of the judge upon tile the bench enforcing local laws locally instead ot of through the already en cumbered cambered cumb ered federal courts developing a sense of responsibility in the individual citizen in tho the community and in its judicial off officers acers these aria are the steps which will bring about the control of 0 criminality anti pistol laws antl anti automobile laws antiaircraft anti aircraft laws or any other kind of 0 anti laws passed on tho the theory that atey will prevent crime simply punish the law abiding to the benefit ot of the lawbreaker law breaker tho the more laws wo we pass the more lawbreakers we have crime will be reduced in proportion as the lawbreaker learns that hat punishment w will III b ba a swift and certain |