Criminal Legal System
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Speech in Chicago
The financial cost of organized crime is not limited to the vast illicit profits of gambling or narcotics.
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Address at the Dinner Honoring Congressman James C. Corman at the Sportsmen’s Lodge, Los Angeles, California
As attorney general, I found crime to be, with civil rights, one of our two most serious domestic problems. The crime rate rises by seven percent a year, there is a robbery every five minutes, an aggravated assault every three minutes, a car stolen every minute.
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Address Delivered to the American Bar Association, House of Delegates, San Francisco, California
Crime is not only a cause of economic waste, but far worse than that, it is a reproach to the moral pretensions of our society, and advertises to the world the gap between our pronouncements and our performance.
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Statement on Introducing Legislation For the Custody and Treatment of Persons Federally Acquitted on Insanity Grounds, Senate Floor
All of the recent court rulings reflect a judgment that those whose crimes occur because of mental illness should be treated for their illness rather than punished for their conduct.
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Speech in Chicago
We are doing an increasingly better job of using most of our assets in the effort to curb the enormous power of organized crime. But the effort has only begun. In 1961 and 1962 Congress granted us new statutory authority with which to act against the rackets. With bipartisan concern and support, we obtained new…
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
Organized crime is a national problem. The racketeer is not someone dressed in a black shirt, white tie and diamond stickpin, whose activities affect only a remote underworld circle. He is more likely to be outfitted in a gray flannel suit, and his influence is more likely to be as far-reaching as that of an…
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
In too many major communities of our country, organized crime has become big business. It knows no state lines. It drains off millions of dollars of our national wealth, infecting legitimate business, labor unions and even sports. Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It…
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Statement Before Senate
The data coming to light now shows that we have done all too little to rehabilitate and reintegrate into society those who have once run afoul of the law enforcement
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Speech in New York
We are impressed by the nature of our problem when we are confronted with the fact that almost half of the murderers in Death Row at Sing Sing are under twenty-one. And the number of arrests of youths under eighteen is increasing steadily.
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Speech in Chicago
The more closely one looks at the cost and deployment of our crime prevention efforts, the more apparent it becomes that we have put too much responsibility at the end of the line, rather than at the beginning. Enforcement and correction can only do part of the job.
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Speech in Chicago
I believe that, as long as most men are honest, corruption is twice vicious. It hurts men and it undermines their fundamental rights. We must be doubly wary, with private and public vigilance.
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Speech in New York
The individual man, in whose hands democracy must put its faith and its fate, is capable of great heights of achievement. He is also capable of infinite degradation. Fortunately most of our institutions have safe-guards which ultimately unseat a man when power results in arrogance and corruption. But often before justice is done the very…
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