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The History of Presidents and Crime PolicyPresident (((President Herbert…
The History of Presidents and Crime PolicyPresident
President Herbert Hoover was the first president who articulated the need for the government and specifically the president, to become involved in the issue of crime
President Nixon supported programs such as delinquency prevention, victims rights, war on drugs, revision of federal criminal code and grants to the states
The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States. However; this did not stop the federal administration from expanding into other crime areas
President Kennedy had four criminal justice issues. They were organized crime, juvenile crime, youth delinquency, and legal councel for indigent offenders
In the late 1950's the President Eisenhower Administration resurfaced as a presidential issue with the focus on the rising rate of juvenile crime caused primarily by the increase in the number of teenagers in the United States of the post World War II baby boom generation.
President Johnson also felt that crime control was the first duty of local law enforcement but the federal government needed to help.
President Clinton supported the three strikes legislation. He proposed that more federal agents crack down on illegal gun trafficking and dealers.
President Franklin Roosevelt 's acts in office was the repeal of the Volstead Act.
President Hoover was against the growth industry in the underground import, manufacturing, and distribution of illegal alcohol which were contributing factors to the rise in crime rates.
President Ford had many crime control issues. They included gun control, constitutional protections restricting the search efforts of law enforcement personnel, capital punishment for shooting a police officer, mandatory sentencing, pretrial diversion and prosecution of white collar crime, political corruption and other high crimes in high places.
President Carter did not put crime high on his agenda. He did support criminal code reform, judicial reform, wiretap reform, antitrust enforcement and competition as well as anti-crime programs.
President Reagan supported victims rights and the death penalty. He also supported the rights for one to own a hand gun. He fought against illicit drug use as well as organized crime, pornography, and especially child pornography.
George H. W. Busch supported mandatory sentences for drug offenders and the death penalty for drug kingpins. He also supported changes in the exclusionary rule limiting habeas corpus appeals.He also wanted more federal agents fighting crime.
George W. Busch signed the USA Patriot Act to fight the war on terrorism after 9/11.
President Hoover was the first to take up the rhetoric of crime and he also began addressing the issue of crime via federal powers of office
President Nixon acknowledged that crime was a local issue but the government needed to be involved. He fought against unsolicited pornographic material, organized crime, street crimes, narcotics and crime in the District of Columbia.
President Clinton supported the hate crimes act and the violence against women act. He also supported his plan to have 100,000 patrol officers to patrol the streets for community policing
President Johnson established the commission on law enforcement and the administration of justice to discover the causes of crime and better ways to prevent it
President Busch focused on school resource officers to prevent school shootings