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CHAPTER 3

Billions of dollars have been spent in recent years to improve law enforcement—yet crime has continued to rise, and many Americans are worried about whether it can ever be brought under control….

Patrick V. Murphy, a former police official in Washington and New York says this: “We have to face facts. There is too much instability in our cities. As long as we have unemployment, underemployment, broken homes, alcoholism, drugs and mental-health problems, we are going to have crime.”

U.S. News & World Report

June 10, 1974

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Crime is an outlet many people have for coping with a society whose complexities have outgrown their bounds. In its last attempt to hold itself together, I predict our culture will go through one last monstrous spasm of “law and order.” Every……