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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 of a specially appointed ap-pointed commission of lawyers, but the concentration of the public brains "The criminal is alien only mentallv and morally. He Is not a denizen of some remote Island. He Is living a-mong a-mong us, a part of the community In the physical sense. He has access to the automobile, to the airplane, and, in New York State at least, far readier access to the automatic pistol than has the law abiding citizen. These things cannot be kept from him. "Shortening and simplifying the pro cesses of criminal law, extending the power of the judge upon the bench, enforcing local laws locally instead of through the already encumbered Federal Fed-eral courts, developing a sense of responsibility re-sponsibility in the Individual citizen, in the community and in its judicial officers, these are the steps which will bring aboiut the control of criminality." criminali-ty." Anti-pistol laws, anti-automobile laws, anti-aircraft laws or any other kind of "anti-laws" passed on the theory that they will prevent crime, simply punish the law-abiding to the benefit of the law-breaker. The more laws we pass the more law-breaker? we have. Crime will be reduced in proportion as the law-breaker learns that punishment wil be swift and certain. |