{"id":191,"date":"1981-06-23T18:07:54","date_gmt":"1981-06-24T01:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=191"},"modified":"2014-12-06T06:05:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T13:05:28","slug":"crime-registers-icirgesi-jump-in-i2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Crime registers largest jump in 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Click<\/a>Both\u00a0violent and property crime registered their largest jumps in a dozen years during 1980\u00a0– and the increase has pervasive throughout every region of the country.<\/p>\n

This alarming situation, reported by the Justice Department, was brought to the attention of the U.S. Senate recently by Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I. who attributed much of the crime\u00a0increase to “illicit drug trafficking which flourishes in America.”<\/p>\n

Twenty-four million households – almost a third\u00a0of those in the nation – were touched by crime\u00a0in one form\u00a0or another.<\/p>\n

Noting that the effect of crime is not limited to its immediate victims, Pell said: “Families and friends share the pain, hardship and aftermath\u00a0of fear that\u00a0crime causes.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0senator quoted a Gallup poll which said that in cities\u00a0with a population of 1 million or more, half of those residents expressing a desire to leave their cities cited crime as the chief reason.<\/p>\n

Re: drug trafficking, the Justice Department estimates\u00a0that payments by users and traffickers for heroin, cocaine, hashish\u00a0and other dangerous drugs are between $54 and $73 billion annually.<\/p>\n

Pell cited studies made by University of Delaware and Temple University\u00a0as providing evidence of a relationship between drug trafficking and crime, and that “controlling the supply of illicit\u00a0drugs is a key to reducing criminal activity.”<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the General Accounting Office\u00a0has found that despite years of effort and outlay of billions of dollars, the federal government has made “little real progress” in the fight against drug trafficking, Pell reported.<\/p>\n

Last year the Coast Guard seized marijuana with a secret value of a billion\u00a0dollars; yet this figure\u00a0was estimated at only about 10 percent of the total amount smuggled into the country.<\/p>\n

Other agencies, such as the Customs Service and the Border Patrol also estimate that only 5 to 10\u00a0percent of the drugs\u00a0coming into the country are seized.<\/p>\n

One phase of the problem is passport control. A recent New York Times’ story reported tens of thousands of people obtain U.S. passports under false identities each year, largely for drug\u00a0trafficking purposes. Better coordination between enforcement agencies and the State Department obviously is necessary.<\/p>\n

Pell’s evaluation is that “the single most important problem is that the one in the federal government has a clear mandate or is exercising sufficient\u00a0leadership to develop an integrated national strategy to deal with the drug problem.”<\/p>\n

A clear over-all approach must involve coordination among 17 federal agencies, state and local agencies, and several foreign governments and international organizations.<\/p>\n

As a step toward solution, Pell has required President Reagan to designate a member of his cabinet to personally oversee federal drug enforcement\u00a0policy and insure\u00a0successful strategy implementation.<\/p>\n

He also proposed filling\u00a0several key enforcement agency posts and making sure enforcement agencies have the resource to do the job.<\/p>\n

Given the immensity\u00a0of the problem, no\u00a0quick solution can be expected, but an effective and aggressive national\u00a0attack on drug trafficking certainly ought\u00a0to go a long way toward stopping the entry of illegal drugs\u00a0into this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both\u00a0violent and property crime registered their largest jumps in a dozen years during 1980\u00a0– and the increase has pervasive throughout every region of the country. This alarming situation, reported by the Justice Department, was brought to the attention of the U.S. Senate recently by Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I. who attributed much of the crime\u00a0increase to… Continue reading Crime registers largest jump in 12 years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}