The Turning Point
Richard Harris on Congress’s 1968 passage of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, of 1968, commonly called the Crime Bill: “a piece of demagoguery devised in malevolence and enacted in hysteria,” he writes.
December 14, 1968
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