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Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
Clinton Library
DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
001. email
Cerda to Kim Widdess pager [partial] (1 page)
5/6/1999
P6/b(6)
002. email
Cerda to Kim Widdess [partial] (1 page)
5/9/1999
P6/b(6)
003. email
Cerda to Kim Widdess [partial] (1 page)
5/9/1999
P6/b(6)
004. email
WAVES Request for Seidman and Leary [partial] (1 page)
5/12/1999
P6/b(6)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
Automated Records Management System
OPD (Creator: Cerda)
OA/Box Number: 250000
FOLDER TITLE:
[5/7/1999 - 5/14/1999]
2012-0192-F
wr1060
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - |44 U.S.C. 2204(a)|
Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)]
PI National Security Classified Information |(a)(1) of the PRAJ
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office |(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRAJ
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy |(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy |(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes |(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions |(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells |(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 20:05:18.00
SUBJECT: Re: Children, Violence and Responsibility Doc
TO: Robin J. Bachman ( CN=Robin J. Bachman/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
ura*
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 20:47:39.00
SUBJECT: Juvie Letter
TO: Richard E. Green ( CN=Richard E. Green/OU=OMB/O=EOP @ EOP [ OMB 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: James Boden ( CN=James Boden/OU=OMB/O=EOP @ EOP [ OMB 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Ronald E. Jones ( CN=Ronald E. Jones/OU=OMB/O=EOP @ EOP [ OMB ])
READ:UNKNOWN
CC: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
CC: Caroline R. Fredrickson ( CN=Caroline R. Fredrickson/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
OMB Colleagues:
Caroline and I spoke tonight, and we agreed that the DOJ juvie letter
should not go up either in final form or informally. I will convey the
same to DOJ. As we discussed earlier, a more general SAP or letter would
be appropriate Caroline and I will take the lead on that.
Jose'
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 18:07:08.00
SUBJECT: text on deliverables
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Thomas L. Freedman ( CN=Thomas L. Freedman/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Karin Kullman ( CN=Karin Kullman/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
ATTACHMENT 1
ATT CREATION TIME/DATE: 0 00:00:00.00
TEXT:
Unable to convert ARMS EXT:[ATTACH.D83]ARMS266512142.136 to ASCII,
The following is a HEX DUMP:
END ATTACHMENT 1
Today, leaders in the firearms industry announced their support for key provisions of the President's Youth Gun Crime
Enforcement Act. Specifically, the American Shooting Sports Council (ASSC), which represents most of the nation's major
firearms manufacturers and distributors, released a statement supporting the following proposals:
Closing the gun show loophole on Brady background checks. The Treasury Department estimates that 25-50
percent of the sellers at gun shows are unlicensed and sell guns without the benefit of a background check. As a
result, gun shows can provide a forum for illegal firearms sales and gun trafficking. The ASSC will support the
President's proposal to: (1) require Brady background checks on all firearms transferred at gun shows, with the
assistance of federally-licensed dealers; and (2) require vendors to report information on firearms sold at gun shows
to the ATF, so that they can be traced by law enforcement if they are later used in crimes.
Extending the Brady Law to violent juveniles. Although violent youth convicted in adult courts are barred from
owning firearms as adults, the same is not true for youth convicted of serious violent crimes in juvenile court. The
ASSC supports treating violent juveniles the same as adults, and will support the President's proposal to permanently
ban all violent juveniles from buying guns -- so that they cannot purchase a gun on their 21st birthday.
Raising the age of the youth handgun ban to 21 years of age. Federal law generally bans the possession of
handguns by juveniles under the age of 18, and prohibits federal gun dealers from selling firearms to any one under
21 years of age. However, it is perfectly legal for 18-20 year-olds to possess handguns or to buy them from
unlicensed sellers even though law enforcement trace more crime guns to 18 and 19 year-olds than all other age
groups. The ASSC will join the President in calling for the legal age of handgun ownership to be raised from 18 to
21 years of age.
Holding adults responsible for child access to guns. Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws promote gun safety and
responsibility by holding adults responsible if they allow children easy access to firearms and ammunition. The
President has proposed imposing felony penalties on adults who knowingly or recklessly allow a child to have
access to a gun that is later used to cause death or injury. ASSC will support such CAP legislation.
Helping law enforcement to trace more firearms used in crimes. Over the past 2 years, the President has
expanded comprehensive crime gun tracing to 37 cities -- helping them to trace all crime guns to their source, to
identify illegal gun markets, and to crack down on gun traffickers. Last year, ATF initiated over 300 investigations in
these cities, which involved over 3,300 illegally trafficked firearms. The ASSC will support the President's efforts to
expand comprehensive tracing nationwide, starting by doubling the program to 75 cities.
Designing safer firearms. One way to reduce firearms violence is by utilizing new technologies that allow only
authorized users to discharge a firearm. The President's FY 2000 budget includes $5 million to accelerate the
timetable for developing prototypes of such "smart" or "personalized" firearms. ASSC will also support more funds
for such research.
Attachment 1:
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RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 11:28:36.00
SUBJECT: Re: crime bill message meeting
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Yep...but I'll need to be gone by 2:45 or so...my meeting is at 3pm.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 16:53:13.00
SUBJECT: Can you ask John or Blake for clean cops re-draft asap...jc3
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:,7-MAY-1999 12:07:47.00
SUBJECT: HCI and FOP
TO: Karin Kullman ( CN=Karin Kullman/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
CC: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
CC: Richard Socarides ( CN=Richard Socarides/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Karin:
Sarah Brady of HCI and Steve Boyd of FOP are confirmed for Monday. Who
will follow-up to go over logistics? Social Office? KK? Or do I need to
do this. Let me know, so we can follow-up with folks today. To follow up
w/Sarah, call Bob Walker at 289-5773 to follow-up w/Steve Boyd call Jim
Pasco at 547-8189.
Also, Sarah travels w/a personal aide, who doesn't need to be in the room,
but who she'll ask to accompany her here. I told them that should be
fine.
Jose'
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 12:31:45.00
SUBJECT: gun guys
TO: Cathy R. Mays ( CN=Cathy R. Mays/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/07/99
12:32 PM
Bruce N. Reed
05/07/99 11:02:17 AM
Record Type: Record
To:
Richard Socarides/WHO/EOP
cc:
Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
Subject:
gun guys
Paul Jannuzzo's phone # is 770-432-1202, ext. 778. Social office needs to
call.
former Rep. Bill Brewster is a yes, phone # is 737-0100. Social office
needs to call.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 20:23:24.00
SUBJECT: Do either of you have a recent list for Monday?
TO: Karin Kullman ( CN=Karin Kullman/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Thomas L. Freedman ( CN=Thomas L. Freedman/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 16:44:02.00
SUBJECT: Fax to Dean went to someone else...re-fax please
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 12:02:04.00
SUBJECT: schedule
TO: Essence P. Washington ( CN=Essence P. Washington/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
EW:
Can you please re-do my schedule for today adding:
10am w/OMB, DOJ
2:00 w/House LA brief
2:45 w/Bruce, House Dems
2:45 message mtg
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 14:04:46.00
SUBJECT:
TO: JOSE (Pager) #CERDA ( JOSE (Pager) #CERDA [ UNKNOWN ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
I'm heading to Indian Treaty and taking your copies. LS
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD )
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 12:28:30.00
SUBJECT: Calls
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
LS:
Can you call the following folks and let them know:
(1) We have close to final language on COPS II, and sent it over last
night for your comments;
(2) Also, we've dropped the gun legislatin and section-by-section in the
mail. We expect Schumer and Conyers to introduce next week;
(3) Finally, while we hadn't anticipated doing the crime bill introduction
for another week or so, the President's travel schedule -- and the
Senate's possible consideration of crime/juvenile crime legislation next
week -- may mean that we have to introduce our bill as early as next
week. We'll keep you posted and hope to know by Monday at the latest. If
we did do a White House event, let's say next Wednesday, would you, your
organization, members/uniforms be able to attend.
(4) Any other crime bill issues we should touch on before then?
Who to call:
1. Mike at NAPO
2. Gene at IACP
3. Dean at NSA
4. Bob Stewart at NOBLE
5. Johnny at NTC
6. Chris at IBPO
7. Police Foundation -- do you know anybody other than Hubert?
I'll call:
1. Jim at FOP
2. Rich at FLEOA
3. Melissa at IUPA
4. Chuck at PERF
5. Newman at NDAA
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 10:57:55.00
SUBJECT: Re: crime bill message meeting
TO: Karin Kullman ( CN=Karin Kullman/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
CC: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
You guys should plan to go to this; I'll be on the Hill w/Bruce...jc3
Karin Kullman
05/07/99 10:45:51 AM
Record Type: Record
To:
Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP, Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OPD/EOP
cc:
Subject:
crime bill message meeting
There will be a crime bill message meeting at 2:45pm today in Loretta's
office.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 16:52:07.00
SUBJECT:
TO: BRUCE N. (Pager) #REED ( BRUCE N. (Pager) #REED [ UNKNOWN 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
told press okay to say nra board member attending..okay? jose
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 7-MAY-1999 17:03:17.00
SUBJECT:
TO: CAROLINE R (Pager) #FREDRICKSON ( CAROLINE R (Pager) #FREDRICKSON [ UNKNOWN 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
call jose when you can. 6-5568
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 9-MAY-1999 13:21:34.00
SUBJECT: Re: draft paper
TO: Karin Kullman ( CN=Karin Kullman/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
2 pts. to double check w/BR: (1) our paper says the ASSC will support some
of our gun initiatives... do we also need to say the ASSF and/or the
specific manufacturers in the room?
(2) none of the news reports mention support for smart gun research... does
this mean we should drop this?
jc3
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DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
001. email
Cerda to Kim Widdess pager [partial] (1 page)
5/6/1999
P6/b(6)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
Automated Records Management System
OPD (Creator: Cerda)
OA/Box Number: 250000
FOLDER TITLE:
[5/7/1999 - 5/14/1999]
2012-0192-F
wr1060
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information |(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information |(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute |(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA|
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information |(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA|
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy |(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy |(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions |(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 9-MAY-1999 18:37:26.00
[001]
SUBJECT:
TO: KIM (Pager) #WIDDESS ( KIM (Pager) #WIDDESS [ UNKNOWN 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
courtney gardner
(b)(6)
also e-mailed info. jose
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 9-MAY-1999 15:44:08.00
SUBJECT: Dowd
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
I assume you saw this jc3
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/09/99
03:45 PM
Jeffrey A. Shesol
05/09/99 03:43:10 PM
Record Type: Record
To: See the distribution list at the bottom of this message
cc:
Subject: Dowd
May 9, 1999
LIBERTIES / By MAUREEN DOWD
Guns and Poses
When I went out to buy a gun one night, I had no idea it
would be
easier and less expensive than buying a pink cashmere
sweater
set.
My friend Jill and I drove to a Sports Authority in a bland
strip mall in
Virginia, near the Pentagon. Past fishing lures and boogie
boards we found
the gun department.
Beneath a plastic 175-pound deer target was a row of rifles -- a
Remington 12-gauge shotgun for $219, a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun
for
$239.99, a Browning 20-gauge deer rifle for $599.99.
"Would you like to try one?" the young clerk asked pleasantly.
Jill opted for
a basic black Mossberg. "Nice pin," he said, admiring her
brooch, as she
puzzled over whether the butt went above or below the shoulder.
It was as
easy as Thelma and Louise: a driver's license, half an hour for a
computerized background check, and the gun would have been ours.
Trust me on this. I am not the sort of person who should be able
to walk
out of a store with a really big gun in half an hour.
It was a shopping trip that left me even more dubious about the
President's
stressing the culture of violence as much as the machines of
violence.
He called a White House summit on youth and media violence. But
none
of his pals from Hollywood were willing to be publicly spanked
by the
Clintons and Gores.
"They don't want to be pilloried in public and put in a metal
stockade," said
one industry executive.
It galled the movie big shots to be summoned to the principal's
office by a
President and Vice President who have nurtured so many close and
lucrative ties in Hollywood. Next weekend, Mr. Clinton and other
Democratic leaders will attend a $1.5 million fund-raiser in
Beverly Hills
hosted by the Dreamworks trio.
So the Hollywood chieftains stiffed Washington, saying that only
their
lobbyists would attend, and pointedly reminded the White House
of their
lavish past support. They felt the President should not be aping
the
Republicans and scapegoating the entertainment industry.
At first the Clintonites huffed that the Hollywood crowd was
wimping out.
One took catty note that Edgar Bronfman Jr. of Seagram's, which
owns
Universal, turned down the summit invitation to open a roller
coaster at
Universal's new theme park in Orlando, Fla. As if the Clinton
White House
is not enough of a roller coaster.
But Hollywood was right to boycott another politically
opportunistic
gabfest. As Sean Daniel, a Hollywood producer, puts it: "The
heads of
movie, television and recording industries have their share of
responsibility.
But they are being made to stand up as symbols of much more
complex
behavior, a mix of evil, DNA, parenting, isolation, the
singleminded
alienation of being in front of a computer screen in your room
six hours a
day. People invoke Hollywood as a catchall for all the
influences that come
off any screen, including the Internet and video games."
Faced with all the no-shows, the White House had to recast
tomorrow's
summit into a fuzzy hodgepodge on "Children, Violence and
Responsibility,"
with no one famous taking part except Maya Angelou. Besides
soothing
Hollywood, the President reached out to the N.R.A., saying
"Let's bury the
hatchet." (The N.R.A. will gladly bury the hatchet. It's the gun
they won't
bury.)
Rob Reiner, the director, rearranged his schedule to come. But
then the
White House, inexplicably, told him not to bother.
"I'm not saying we don't need some self-regulation," Mr. Reiner
told me. "I
hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and
there are
jokes afterward. They poison the soul. Sure, kids are affected,
but not
enough to turn a loved, securely attached child into a violent
killer.
"We have to figure out why our society is so angry, why our
technology is
making us more disengaged from human interaction. And we have to
stop
the easy access to guns.
Canada, Germany, Japan, England -- every country gets our
movies, but
they don't kill anybody afterward."
The President deserves credit for his push on gun control. But
this is the
moment to be brazen. He's wandering the White House halls
looking for a
legacy. How about a take-no-prisoners, give-no-quarter campaign
against
the N.R.A. and a ban on handguns?
Message Sent
To:
Bruce N. Reed/OPD/EOP
Richard Socarides/WHO/EOP
Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
Thomas L. Freedman/OPD/EOP
Neera Tanden/WHO/EOP
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002. email
Cerda to Kim Widdess [partial] (1 page)
5/9/1999
P6/b(6)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
Automated Records Management System
OPD (Creator: Cerda)
OA/Box Number: 250000
FOLDER TITLE:
[5/7/1999 - 5/14/1999]
2012-0192-F
wr1060
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - |44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA|
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office |(a)(2) of the PRAJ
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency |(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute |(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information |(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information |(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors |a)(5) of the PRAJ
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy |(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy |(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes |(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
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SUBJECT: Sarah Brady's Assistant
TO: Kim B. Widdess ( CN=Kim B. Widdess/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Kim:
Per our conversation
Courtney Gardner
(b)(6)
Thanks,
Jose'
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CREATION DATE/TIME: 9-MAY-1999 14:55:38.00
SUBJECT: Some gun q/a
TO: Karin Kullman ( CN=Karin Kullman/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
CC: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
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Here's the new q/a on guns...one new q on the NRA dis, and one new q on
gun prosecutions. The rest are a re-hash of related stuff..
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The White House Strategy Session on Children, Violence and Responsibility
Questions and Answers on the Gun Industry's Involvement
May 10, 1999
NRA Involvement
Q:
The NRA has complained that they were not invited to your meeting today. If you
are trying to have an open and honest dialogue on violence -- and especially on the
roles guns play -- why didn't you invite them?
A:
I think it's very important to note that the gun industry is very well represented at today's
meeting. In fact, representatives of the gun industry make up about 10 percent of the
total participants (5 of 51), and include two major gun manufacturers (Smith and Wesson,
and Glock U.S.A.), two trade associations that represent a majority of the overall gun
industry (the American Shooting Sports Council, the American Shooting Sport
Foundation), and one of the NRA's current board members. By comparison, we have
invited only one gun control advocate to the meeting (Sarah Brady). So, it really is a
stretch to say we have minimized participation by gun interests at today's meeting.
However, we did not invite the President and Executive Director of the NRA. But
neither did we invite the Presidents and Executive Directors of many other
Washington-based interest groups with an interest in today's meeting. It simply wasn't
feasible. Instead, we sought a mix of people that included some organization heads, real
people with an active interest in the topic, or professionals with some particular expertise
or perspective to offer. In developing this mix of people, we consulted with leaders in
each of the effected industries and sectors, and we believe the final list of participants --
while not perfect -- will make for a constructive dialogue on Monday.
Federal Gun Prosecutions
Q:
The NRA charges that under the Clinton Administration, federal gun prosecutions
are significantly down and there is less of a focus on prosecuting street-level
criminals who carry guns. They believe that more enforcement of existing laws is
needed instead of new gun control laws. What is your response?
A:
Although Republicans and the NRA like to say that so-called "Triggerlock" prosecutions
are down under the Clinton Administration, that's simply not the full story on federal
firearms prosecutions. The truth is that:
(1) Overall firearms prosecutions are up. More criminals are prosecuted today for all
weapons offenses than in 1992. Although the number of federal prosecutions for persons
serving sentences of 3 years or less is down than, the number of persons sentenced to 5 or
more years in federal prison is up by nearly 30 percent (from 1049 to 1345). And
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because we work more closely with our partners in state and local law enforcement --
who handle almost all gun crimes -- about 25 percent more criminals are sent to prison
for state and federal weapons offenses than in 1992 (from 20,681 to 25,186). This
means we do a better job of making sure gun criminals serve the longest prison sentences
possible -- whether in the state or federal system.
(2) Crime -- and gun-related crime in particular-- are down dramatically. The
previous Administration may have prosecuted more lower level gun cases in federal
court, but gun and violent crime sky rocketed on their watch. During the Clinton
Administration -- and with more police on the street and tougher gun laws on the books --
crime has dropped across the board. Since 1992, overall, violent and property crime are
down by more than 20 percent each; the murder rate is down 28 percent -- and to the
lowest level in 30 years; and homicides, robberies, and aggravated assaults committed
with gun are down by an average of 27 percent.
(3) Tough talk is cheap. Despite its rhetoric, time and again, the NRA has opposed
efforts to put real money for state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies to
investigate, arrest, and prosecute gun criminals and illegal gun traffickers. Over the past
2 years, this Administration has called for more resources to enforce our gun laws on
every front -- requesting tens of millions of dollars to hire over 280 new ATF agents and
over 40 new federal prosecutors, as well as more than a billion dollars to hire more local
police and prosecutors. The NRA's interest new found in strengthened enforcement will
mean very little if we can't count on their support to secure the necessary resources.
Gun Bill proposals
Q:
You plan to propose criminal liability for adults who "recklessly give access" to
guns to children. Your proposal also refers to increased penalties for
adults who "transfer" guns to juveniles. Can you explain the
difference between these two proposals?
A:
In one case, there is a knowing transfer of a gun to a juvenile and the adult knows that it
would be used in a crime. Our bill would raise existing criminal penalties for such
offenses. With respect to child access prevention, our proposal would create new
criminal liability where adults recklessly give children access to guns (which could occur
without the explicit knowledge of the adult) and the gun is later used to cause death or
violent injury.
Q:
What does "recklessly give access" mean? Can you give us an example?
A:
Generally, the "reckless" standard in the President's bill applies to behavior that is a gross
deviation from a standard of care that any reasonable person would have exercised. For
example, "reckless" behavior would cover someone who -- despite knowing that children
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would be home on a given day -- left a loaded weapon on the kitchen. On the other
hand, it would not apply to someone who made every effort to safely store and lock a gun
that was nonetheless stolen by a juvenile. Ultimately, however, what is and isn't reckless
behavior would need to be determined by a jury.
Q:
Can you further explain the one-gun-a-month proposal?
A:
The proposal would restrict individuals from selling or transferring more than one
handgun per month to someone if the transferror knows that the individual receiving it
has already received a handgun within the last 30 days. The law would also prohibit a
person from receiving more than one handgun per month.
The proposal would rely on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System,
which requires checks on individuals seeking to buy a firearm. If a person who seeks to
buy a handgun has tried to purchase one within the last 30 days, the NICS would indicate
that the person applied to buy a handgun, and the transfer of additional handguns would
be prevented.
Q:
Doesn't this mean that you would be creating a federal gun registry?
A:
The proposal will not create a gun registry. However, the system will require that
information that an individual has purchased a handgun be kept for at least 30 days. The
system will not contain any information about the handgun or any information about
other firearms that the purchaser may own.
Q:
Aren't there some situations in which someone has a legitimate reason to obtain
more than one handgun in a month's time?
A:
The proposal would recognize some limited exceptions where an individual has a
legitimate need to obtain more than one handgun a month. Some of these situations
would include, for instance, private security companies that need more than one handgun
for their security operations, or where a person's handgun has been lost or stolen.
Q:
Isn't this Brady waiting period for handgun sales weaker than the waiting period that
already sunsetted under the Brady Law?
A:
No, in fact is much tougher than the original waiting period, which allowed a waiting
period of up to 5 days. The new proposal mandates a minimum waiting period of 3
days for all handgun purchases -- for the first time ever -- and allows law enforcement to
take up to a total of 5 days to complete a check for any gun (not just handguns) if they
need additional time to clarify arrest or other records. So, our provision is similar to the
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old Brady waiting period in that it allows for a total waiting period of up to 5 days, but it
is stronger in that it creates a new minimum waiting period of at least 3 days for
handguns. This minimum wait was not previously required under the original Brady
law.
Gun Sales on the Internet
a:
Senator Schumer has introduced legislation that would regulate the sale of guns on
the Internet. Are you supportive of his legislation?
A:
Currently, we don't have a great deal of law enforcement data on gun sales over the
Internet. However, recognizing that an increasing amount of commerce is being
handled via the Internet, we are concerned that Internet gun sales are likely to rise --
and that they may allow gun runners to avoid background checks. We have taken a
strong position to expand background checks on gun purchases wherever possible, to
help ensure that criminals, juveniles and other prohibited purchasers do not illegally
gain access to guns. So, while we are still reviewing Senator Schumer's legislation, we
agree that gun sales on the Internet should comply with all the provisions of our gun
laws.
Gun Lawsuits
Q:
Do you support the lawsuits being filed by New Orleans, Chicago, Atlanta and other
cities against gun manufacturers? Are you planning to take a strong position on this
issue as you did in the tobacco litigation?
A:
We are watching closely all of the pending lawsuits against the gun industry. The
President has previously expressed particular concern about allegations -- such as in
Chicago -- that some gun dealers are selling guns illegally -- helping purchasers evade
firearms laws and even selling guns to persons who say they intend to break the law.
These are serious charges which, if proven true, would demonstrate that some in the
gun industry are helping to promote an illegal market in firearms. Such disrespect for
the law endangers our citizens, and if the evidence shows in any of these cases that
federal firearms laws have been violated, we will take vigorous enforcement action.
The President's new bill will further crack down on those gun dealers involved in the
illegal gun trade, by allowing for more inspections of federal firearms licensees (from 1
to 3 per year), tougher penalties for serious violations that interfere with trafficking
investigations, and suspension of a gun dealer's license for willful violations of the Gun
Control Act.
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In the meantime, we will continue to work closely with state and local law enforcement
to trace crime guns back to their source, and to prevent illegal gun sales -- especially
to criminals and juveniles.
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RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda II1/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 9-MAY-1999 21:52:15.00
SUBJECT: Re: Press Paper for Monday Meeting
TO: Karin Kullman ( CN=Karin Kullman/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
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most excellent work
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
[003]
CREATION DATE/TIME: 9-MAY-1999 18:35:56.00
SUBJECT: Sarah Brady's Assistant
TO: Kim B. Widdess ( CN=Kim B. Widdess/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Kim:
Per our conversation
Courtney Gardner
(b)(6)
Thanks,
Jose'
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:10-MAY-1999 17:32:57.00
SUBJECT: Re: industry-supported gun proposals
TO: Cathy R. Mays ( CN=Cathy R. Mays/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Should've been in the press packet for today, and I know Bruce had a hard
copy on his desk. I'll check w/press office, too...jc3
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:10-MAY-1999 18:12:43.00
SUBJECT: list
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Karin Kullman ( CN=Karin Kullman/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Mark Spurrier from MCC can't come to tomorrow's event. However, he'll
call back to see if Neil Behan, his associate, can come -- and he'll try
and get 2 or 3 Baltimore County uniforms...jc3
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:10-MAY-1999 17:16:36.00
SUBJECT: industry-supported gun proposals
TO: Cathy R. Mays ( CN=Cathy R. Mays/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
CC: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
CC: Caroline R. Fredrickson ( CN=Caroline R. Fredrickson/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO D
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Cathy:
Do you have the final gun industry statement? Can you fax to me and/or
Caroline?
jc3
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05:16 PM
Caroline R. Fredrickson
05/10/99 04:54:31 PM
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To:
Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
cc:
Subject:
industry-supported gun proposals
do you have a list that I can give to folks on the Hill of what the gun
folks have officially signed on to? thanks
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CREATION DATE/TIME:10-MAY-1999 11:44:13.00
SUBJECT: Re: VAWA mention
TO: Mary L. Smith ( CN=Mary L. Smith/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
no prob
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:10-MAY-1999 17:51:11.00
SUBJECT: DOJ revision -- italicized -- to first para of SAP
TO: Caroline R. Fredrickson ( CN=Caroline R. Fredrickson/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
this okay w/you.. jc3
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/10/99
05:52 PM
Ronald E. Jones
05/10/99 05:49:01 PM
Record Type: Record
To:
Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OPD/EOP, Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
cc:
Subject:
DOJ revision -- italicized -- to first para of SAP
The 106th Congress has an historic opportunity to ensure community safety
into the 21st century by continuing and expanding on the successful
programs put into place by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Act of 1994 (VCCLEA). The Administration commends the Senate for
addressing the important issue of juvenile crime, and notes with
appreciation the considerable progress that has been made, on a bipartisan
basis, in this area since the previous Congress. The Administration is,
however, disappointed that the legislation fails to address a number of
other areas critical to fighting crime effectively. The Administration
supports a broad-based, comprehensive approach to crime and would support
Senate passage of S. 254 if it were to provide a more comprehensive
approach to fighting and preventing juvenile crime.
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CREATION DATE/TIME:10-MAY-1999 12:20:38.00
SUBJECT:
TO: Jordan Tamagni ( CN=Jordan Tamagni/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO ])
READ:UNKNOWN
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The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
May 12, 1999
Today, President Clinton will announce that the Administration has reached its goal of helping
communities fund the hiring and redeployment of 100,000 more police officers. He will also
propose new legislation The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- to renew
the Justice Department's successful COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) program, as
well as to reduce juvenile and drug crime, protect all crime victims, crack down on international
crime and terrorism, and otherwise improve federal law enforcement.
Helping fund 100,000 more police. President Clinton will announce the availability of
$ for communities to hire new police officers. With these new grants, the COPS
office will have provided cities with $ to help hire and redeploy more police
officers across the country - fulfilling the President's 1992 pledge to help fund 100,000
more police
Building on the successful 1994 Crime Act. The President will also unveil new
legislation -- The 21st Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- designed to continue
and improve upon many of the successful anti-crime initiatives that have helped drive
down crime rates for more than six years in a row. The President's new legislation will:
(1) Keep our commitment to law enforcement by renewing the COPS program and
providing funds to hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more police, giving
police the high-tech tools they need to do their job, and hiring more local prosecutors to
target local crime problems.
(2) Punish and prevent youth crime and violence by giving prosecutors new tools to
punish the most violent juveniles and curb gang witness intimidation, promoting swift
and certain punishments for all juvenile offenders, and working to prevent at-risk youth
from committing serious crimes in the first place.
(3) Break the cycle of drugs and crime by helping states and localities implement "zero
tolerance" drug supervision programs that drug test, treat, and punish all drug offenders,
and by enacting tough new money laundering provisions that will help staunch the flow
of cash drug proceeds from the United States.
(4) Protect all crime victims by enhancing penalties for child abusers who kill and adults
who commit violent crimes in the presence of a child; providing new authorities for
federal law enforcement to protect the elderly from illegal telemarketing, nursing home
neglect and abuse, health care fraud, and retirement rip-offs; and renewing the Violence
Against Women Act.
(5) Combat international crime and terrorism by making it a federal crime to possess
and unsafely handle biological agents and toxins that can fall into the hands of terrorists
and criminalizing "port-running" by smugglers at our borders.
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KEEPING OUR COMMITMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Renewing the COPS program. The President's 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act extends the COPS program and proposes spending $1.3 billion annually to help
communities continue to hire, redeploy, and retain police officers; to give law enforcement
officers access to the latest crime-fighting technologies; and to engage the entire community --
including community-based prosecutors, probation and parole officers, school officials,
faith-based organizations, and many others -- in preventing and fighting crime. Specifically,
this new initiative calls for:
- $600 million for more police on the street. These funds would be used primarily
to hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more law enforcement officers over
five years, with an effort to target new police officers to crime "hot spots." A portion
of the funds would also be used to help economically-distressed communities absorb
the long-term costs of their new police hires, and for programs to train, educate, and
recruit police officers.
- $350 million for crime-fighting technologies. These funds would be used to help
state and local enforcement agencies tap into new technologies that will allow them to
communicate more effectively, solve more crimes, and conduct comprehensive crime
analysis. Examples include: using computers and wireless communications to send
data and images seamlessly across different jurisdictions and into patrol cars;
improving the nation's overburdened and underfunded crime labs, and making
high-end technologies -- such as DNA analysis -- more widely available; and
expanding the use of crime mapping and other technologies that improve law
enforcement's ability to analyze, predict and respond to local crime trends and
problems.
- $200 million for community prosecutors and neighborhood district attorneys.
As police and community residents have joined forces to fight crime on a proactive
basis, communities also have turned to local prosecutors to play a more active role in
the crime-fighting effort. The President's new legislation will help communities hire
community-based prosecutors to target local crime problems.
- $150 million for community-wide crime prevention. The President's new
initiative specifically targets funds to engage the entire community in preventing and
fighting crime. These funds could be used to: work with local school officials in
adopting community-wide plans to prevent school violence; involve faith-based
organizations in juvenile crime prevention; and establish citizens' police academies
that teach neighborhood residents problem-solving skills.
Supporting Law Enforcement. The President's new crime legislation also supports
law enforcement by
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PUNISHING AND PREVENTING YOUTH CRIME AND VIOLENCE
Cracking down on gangs and youth violence. The President's 21st Century Law
Enforcement and Public Safety Act incorporates many of the elements of his Anti-Gang
and Youth Violence Strategy. It includes new tools to help federal prosecutors go after
gang criminals and serious, violent youth. Specifically, the President's bill will:
-- Allow prosecutors to decide whether the most serious violent juveniles should be tried
as adults.
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BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DRUGS AND CRIME
Enforcing "zero tolerance" drug supervision. In 1997, more than three-quarters of the
nation's prisoners reported past drug use, and one in six committed their crimes so they
could purchase drugs. The President's bill establishes a new $100 million initiative to
help states and localities systematically test, treat, and sanction drug-involved offenders --
including probationers, prisoners, and parolees. His bill also reauthorizes the successful
drug court initiative established in the 1994 Crime Act, and extends funding to provide
intensive, long-term drug treatment to state prisoners with serious drug problems.
Enhancing drug penalties and enforcement. The President's bill contains targeted
drug penalty increases, for using kids to sell drugs and selling drugs on or near school
property. It increases penalties for amphetamine trafficking, which is closely related to
methamphetamine use, and grants the Attorney General emergency authority to
temporarily reschedule certain controlled substances, such as
.
Helping states fight drugs and crime. The President's bill extends funding for the
Violent Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) program that helps states
incarcerate more violent offenders, and gives states the added flexibility to implement
graduated sanctions programs that hold offenders accountable for every offense and
escalate in intensity -- as well as free up additional prison space for violent offenders.
The bill also reauthorizes the Byrne block grant program, which funds statewide anti-drug
plans and multi-jurisdictional drug enforcement task forces.
Cracking down on drug money laundering. Our money laundering laws have not been
updated since they were first enacted in 1986. Since that time, money laundering has
become a global problem -- involving international financial institutions and the
smuggling of currency across borders. To attack international money laundering and
drug crime, the President's bill will:
-- Stop the flow of cash drug proceeds by making it a federal crime to smuggle
"bulk cash" (more than $10,000 in currency) out of the United States, and by
cracking down on money transmitters who knowingly accept criminal proceeds
from abroad or who fail to report large cash transactions;
-- Holding foreign banks that violate our laws accountable by allowing federal
courts to exercise jurisdiction over them;
-- Thwarting black market transactions by requiring persons who purchase
illegal drug dollars to prove that they did not know the dollars were derived from
unlawful activity;
-- Seizing more illegal drug profits by doing more to confiscate the assets of
criminals and encouraging foreign governments to cooperate with us on the
confiscation of illegal profits that have been launder.
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PROTECTING ALL CRIME VICTIMS
Establishing a new safety net for seniors. While falling violent and property crime
rates have improved the safety of our nation's seniors, today older Americans are
equally threatened by telemarketing scams, retirement rip-offs, and abuse and neglect
at the hands of the very people entrusted to care for them. To help protect seniors
from these crime and punish the criminals who prey on elderly Americans, the
President's bill will:
- Shut down fraudulent telemarketers by granting the Attorney General new
authority to block and terminate telephone service to illegal telemarketers.
- Protect nursing home residents from abuse and neglect by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to halt and punish nursing home operators who repeatedly
abuse and neglect the residents in their care.
- Fight health care fraud and abuse by making it easier for the Justice
Department to prosecute and punish illegal kickback schemes -- and harder for
criminals to stick Medicare with the bills by declaring bankruptcy.
- Safeguard retirement and pension funds by making it a federal crime to
defraud employee pension benefit or retirement funds.
Protecting children exposed to violence. Each year millions of adolescents are
victims of violent crime and millions more witness or experience serious violence or
abuse -- and many of these children later commit violent crimes themselves. The
President's bill will amend federal homicide statutes by making child abuse offenses
predicates for felony murder and defining murder to include the death of a child
resulting from a pattern of child abuse. It will also provide enhanced penalties for
adults who commit violent crimes in the presence of a child.
Continuing the fight against domestic violence. The historic Violence Against
Women Act (VAWA) has helped strengthen law enforcement's response to violent crime
committed against women. It has helped promoted comprehensive law strategies,
encouraged pro-arrest polices for domestic violence crimes, and provided emergency
shelter to women and children fleeing abusive situations. The President's bill continues
these successful efforts and also:
- Targets the illegal trafficking of women and children by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to bring trafficking cases, and increasing penalties for
persons who transport women and children to the United States only to coerce
them to work in sweatshops and other such jobs.
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- Protects battered immigrant women and children by enabling them to file
their own petitions for lawful status, without having to rely on abusive spouses.
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COMBATING TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Keeping the lethal threat of biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists.
Biological weapons pose a serious threat to the United States, particularly in the hands of
terrorists or disaffected groups. The President's bill do more to keep dangerous
biological agents or toxins out of the wrong hands by:
- Making it illegal to possess harmful biological agents for other than peaceful
purposes;
- Establishing criminal penalties for the unsafe handling of deadly toxins in a
manner that grossly deviates from accepted norms; and
- Prohibiting violent felons and fugitives from possessing dangerous
biologicals agents in any circumstance.
Strengthening Our Air, Land, and Sea Borders. The federal government maintains
over 300 ports of entry and watches over 9,600 miles or land and sea borders. To ensure
the safety and security of our border, the President's bill will:
- Create a new federal criminal penalty for port-running, an evasion tactic
employed by contraband smugglers to pass through ports without stopping --
putting law enforcement and civilians at great risk.
- Strengthen our ability to intercept drug smuggling vessels by creating a
criminal offense for failing to "heave to" a vessel at the direction of a Coast Guard
or other federal law enforcement official seeking to board that vessel.
Denying Safe Haven for International Fugitives. To ensure that America not become
a sanctuary for criminals who are attempting to flee apprehension and prosecution in
other parts of the world, the President's bill bars international criminals from entering the
country, and expels them if they do enter with provisions to:
- Expand authority to extradite suspected criminals to foreign nations in
certain situations not covered by a treaty;
- Exclude drug traffickers and their immediate family members and of persons
who attempt to enter the United States in order to avoid prosecution in another
country.
Protecting U.S. Nationals Abroad. American citizens are increasingly targeted around the
world. The President's bill establishes additional authority for investigations and
prosecutions of organized crime groups who perpetrate criminal acts against U.S. nationals
and officials overseas.
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The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
May 12, 1999
Today, President Clinton will announce that the Administration has reached its goal of helping
communities fund the hiring and redeployment of 100,000 more police officers. He will also
propose new legislation -- The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- to renew
the Justice Department's successful COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) program, as
well as to reduce juvenile and drug crime, protect all crime victims, crack down on international
crime and terrorism, and otherwise improve federal law enforcement.
Helping fund 100,000 more police. President Clinton will announce the availability of
more than $95 million for 526 communities to hire nearly 1,500 new police officers.
With these new grants, the COPS office will have provided cities with $ to help hire
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and redeploy 101,000 more police officers across the country -- fulfilling the President's
1992 pledge to help fund 100,000 more police
Building on the successful 1994 Crime Act. The President will also unveil new
legislation -- The 21st Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- designed to continue
and improve upon many of the successful anti-crime initiatives that have helped drive
down crime rates for more than six years in a row. The President's new legislation will:
(1) Keep our commitment to law enforcement by renewing the COPS program and
providing funds to hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more police, giving
police the high-tech tools they need to do their job, and hiring more local prosecutors to
target local crime problems.
(2) Punish and prevent youth crime and violence by giving prosecutors new tools to
punish the most violent juveniles and curb gang witness intimidation; promoting swift
and certain punishments for all juvenile offenders; and working to prevent at-risk youth
from committing serious crimes in the first place.
(3) Break the cycle of drugs and crime by expanding drug courts and helping states and
localities implement "zero tolerance" drug supervision programs that drug test, treat, and
punish all drug offenders; and by enacting tough new money laundering provisions that
help staunch the flow of illegal drug profits.
(4) Protect all crime victims by enhancing penalties for child abusers who kill and adults
who commit violent crimes in the presence of a child; providing new authorities for
federal law enforcement to protect the elder Americans from illegal telemarketing,
nursing home neglect and abuse, retirement rip-offs, and health care fraud; and by
renewing the Violence Against Women Act.
(5) Combat international crime and terrorism by making it a federal crime to possess
or unsafely handle biological agents and toxins that can fall into the hands of terrorists;
and by criminalizing "port-running" by smugglers at our borders.
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KEEPING OUR COMMITMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Renewing the COPS program. The President's 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act extends the COPS program and proposes spending $1.3 billion annually to help
communities continue to hire, redeploy, and retain police officers; to give law enforcement
officers access to the latest crime-fighting technologies; and to engage the entire community --
including community-based prosecutors, probation and parole officers, school officials, and
faith-based organizations -- in preventing and fighting crime. Specifically, the President's bill
calls for:
- $600 million for more police on the street. These funds would be used primarily
to hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more law enforcement officers over
five years, with an effort to target new police officers to crime "hot spots." A portion
of the funds would also be used to help economically-distressed communities absorb
the long-term costs of their new police hires, and for programs to train, educate, and
recruit police officers -- including efforts to promote police integrity and diversity.
- $350 million for crime-fighting technologies. These funds would be used to help
state and local enforcement agencies tap into new technologies that will allow them to
communicate more effectively, solve more crimes, and conduct comprehensive crime
analysis. Examples include: using computers and wireless communications to send
data and images seamlessly across different jurisdictions and into patrol cars;
improving the nation's overburdened and underfunded crime labs, and making
high-end technologies -- such as DNA analysis -- more widely available; and
expanding the use of crime mapping and other technologies that improve law
enforcement's ability to analyze, predict and respond to local crime trends and
problems.
- $200 million for community prosecutors and neighborhood district attorneys.
As police and community residents have joined forces to fight crime on a proactive
basis, communities also have turned to local prosecutors to play a more active role in
community crime-fighting efforts. The President's new legislation will help
communities hire more prosecutors to target neighborhood crime problems.
- $150 million for community-wide crime prevention. The President's new
initiative specifically targets funds to engage the entire community in preventing and
fighting crime. These funds could be used to: work with local school officials in
adopting community-wide plans to prevent school violence; involve faith-based
organizations in juvenile crime prevention; and establish citizens' police academies
that teach neighborhood residents problem-solving skills.
Supporting Law Enforcement. The President's new crime legislation also supports
law enforcement by making it a federal crime to use a bullet-proof vest in the commission
of a crime, extending federal grants to help police departments purchase bullet-proof
vests for their officers, and allowing a portion of COPS funds to be used to provide
current police officers with college scholarships.
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PUNISHING AND PREVENTING YOUTH CRIME AND VIOLENCE
Cracking down on gangs and violent youth. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and
Public Safety Act incorporates many of the elements of the Anti-Gang and Youth
Violence Strategy previously introduced by the President, including new tools to help
federal prosecutors go after gang criminals and serious, violent youth. Specifically, the
President's bill will:
-- Allow prosecutors to decide whether the most serious violent juveniles
should be tried as adults, giving them the ability to target older and more serious
offenders that cannot be adequately punished in the juvenile system;
-- Expand access law enforcement access to juvenile records, requiring that
juvenile records of gun offenses or other adult felonies be sent to the FBI and
made available in the same manner as adult records;
-- Give federal prosecutors new tools to prosecute gang members who
attempt to intimidate or retaliate against witnesses; and
-- Authorize judges to hold gang members without bail pending trial, if there
is probable cause to believe they have been involved in criminal activity.
Provide certain punishment for juvenile offenders.
Prevent serious juvenile crime in the first place.
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BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DRUGS AND CRIME
Enforcing "zero tolerance" drug supervision. In 1997, more than three-quarters of the
nation's prisoners reported past drug use, and one in six committed their crimes so they
could purchase drugs. The President's bill establishes a new $100 million initiative to
help states and localities systematically test, treat, and sanction drug-involved offenders --
including probationers, prisoners, and parolees. His bill also reauthorizes the successful
drug court initiative established in the 1994 Crime Act, and extends funding to provide
intensive, long-term drug treatment to state prisoners with serious drug problems.
Enhancing drug penalties and enforcement. The President's bill contains targeted
drug penalty increases, for using kids to sell drugs and selling drugs on or near school
property. It increases penalties for amphetamine trafficking, which is closely related to
methamphetamine use, and grants the Attorney General emergency authority to
temporarily reschedule certain controlled substances, such as
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Helping states fight drugs and crime. The President's bill extends funding for the
Violent Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) program that helps states
incarcerate more violent offenders, and gives states the added flexibility to implement
graduated sanctions programs that hold offenders accountable for every offense and
escalate in intensity -- as well as free up additional prison space for violent offenders.
The bill also reauthorizes the Byrne block grant program, which funds statewide anti-drug
plans and multi-jurisdictional drug enforcement task forces.
Cracking down on drug money laundering. Our money laundering laws have not been
updated since they were first enacted in 1986. Since that time, money laundering has
become a global problem -- involving international financial institutions and the
smuggling of currency across borders. To attack international money laundering and
drug crime, the President's bill will:
-- Stop the flow of cash drug proceeds by making it a federal crime to smuggle
"bulk cash" (more than $10,000 in currency) out of the United States, and by
cracking down on money transmitters who knowingly accept criminal proceeds
from abroad or who fail to report large cash transactions;
-- Holding foreign banks that violate our laws accountable by allowing federal
courts to exercise jurisdiction over them;
-- Thwarting black market transactions by requiring persons who purchase
illegal drug dollars to prove that they did not know the dollars were derived from
unlawful activity;
-- Seizing more illegal drug profits by doing more to confiscate the assets of
criminals and encouraging foreign governments to cooperate with us on the
confiscation of illegal profits that have been launder.
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PROTECTING ALL CRIME VICTIMS
Establishing a new safety net for seniors. While falling violent and property crime
rates have improved the safety of our nation's seniors, today older Americans are
equally threatened by telemarketing scams, retirement rip-offs, and abuse and neglect
at the hands of the very people entrusted to care for them. To help protect seniors
from these crime and punish the criminals who prey on elderly Americans, the
President's bill will:
- Shut down fraudulent telemarketers by granting the Attorney General new
authority to block and terminate telephone service to illegal telemarketers.
- Protect nursing home residents from abuse and neglect by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to halt and punish nursing home operators who repeatedly
abuse and neglect the residents in their care.
- Fight health care fraud and abuse by making it easier for the Justice
Department to prosecute and punish illegal kickback schemes -- and harder for
criminals to stick Medicare with the bills by declaring bankruptcy.
- Safeguard retirement and pension funds by making it a federal crime to
defraud employee pension benefit or retirement funds.
Protecting children exposed to violence. Each year millions of adolescents are
victims of violent crime and millions more witness or experience serious violence or
abuse -- and many of these children later commit violent crimes themselves. The
President's bill will amend federal homicide statutes by making child abuse offenses
predicates for felony murder and defining murder to include the death of a child
resulting from a pattern of child abuse. It will also provide enhanced penalties for
adults who commit violent crimes in the presence of a child.
Continuing the fight against domestic violence. The historic Violence Against
Women Act (VAWA) has helped strengthen law enforcement's response to violent crime
committed against women. It has helped promoted comprehensive law strategies,
encouraged pro-arrest polices for domestic violence crimes, and provided emergency
shelter to women and children fleeing abusive situations. The President's bill continues
these successful efforts and also:
- Targets the illegal trafficking of women and children by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to bring trafficking cases, and increasing penalties for
persons who transport women and children to the United States only to coerce
them to work in sweatshops and other such jobs.
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- Protects battered immigrant women and children by enabling them to file
their own petitions for lawful status, without having to rely on abusive spouses.
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COMBATING TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Keeping the lethal threat of biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists.
Biological weapons pose a serious threat to the United States, particularly in the hands of
terrorists or disaffected groups. The President's bill do more to keep dangerous
biological agents or toxins out of the wrong hands by:
- Making it illegal to possess harmful biological agents for other than peaceful
purposes;
- Establishing criminal penalties for the unsafe handling of deadly toxins in a
manner that grossly deviates from accepted norms; and
- Prohibiting violent felons and fugitives from possessing dangerous
biologicals agents in any circumstance.
Strengthening Our Air, Land, and Sea Borders. The federal government maintains
over 300 ports of entry and watches over 9,600 miles or land and sea borders. To ensure
the safety and security of our border, the President's bill will:
- Create a new federal criminal penalty for port-running, an evasion tactic
employed by contraband smugglers to pass through ports without stopping --
putting law enforcement and civilians at great risk.
- Strengthen our ability to intercept drug smuggling vessels by creating a
criminal offense for failing to "heave to" a vessel at the direction of a Coast Guard
or other federal law enforcement official seeking to board that vessel.
Denying Safe Haven for International Fugitives. To ensure that America not become
a sanctuary for criminals who are attempting to flee apprehension and prosecution in
other parts of the world, the President's bill bars international criminals from entering the
country, and expels them if they do enter with provisions to:
- Expand authority to extradite suspected criminals to foreign nations in
certain situations not covered by a treaty;
- Exclude drug traffickers and their immediate family members and of persons
who attempt to enter the United States in order to avoid prosecution in another
country.
Protecting U.S. Nationals Abroad. American citizens are increasingly targeted around the
world. The President's bill establishes additional authority for investigations and
prosecutions of organized crime groups who perpetrate criminal acts against U.S. nationals
and officials overseas.
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:10-MAY-1999 12:25:56.00
SUBJECT: please give your info to jordan
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SUBJECT: Re: juvie sap language
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great
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SUBJECT: send your latest safe/drug-free talking pts to Janet Murgia
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SUBJECT: Please make sure we get Blake's new draft ASAP...and get to Schumer
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SUBJECT: Press Paper for Monday Meeting
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fyi...jc3
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PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLINTON, VICE PRESIDENT AND MRS. GORE
HOST STRATEGY SESSION ON
CHILDREN, VIOLENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY
Monday, May 10, 1999
Today, the President led a strategy meeting to discuss the problem of youth violence and develop
a strategy for a national campaign to address this problem. The meeting included a broad cross-
section of Americans including parents and children, teachers and religious leaders, law
enforcement and government officials, gun manufacturers and sportsmen, and representatives of
the entertainment industry. The President announced several initiatives to address the problem
of youth violence including a Surgeon General's Report on Youth Violence, gun industry
support for gun legislation in five important areas, and public and private commitments to ensure
the effective implementation of the V-Chip.
SURGEON GENERAL'S REPORT ON YOUTH VIOLENCE
Today, the President announced that he is asking the nation's Surgeon General, Dr. David
Satcher, to prepare a landmark report on youth violence -- the first such study on this subject in
more than a decade. This report will bring together leading experts to review and evaluate
existing research, and build on the findings of the 1972 Surgeon General Report on Television
and Violence, as well as the 1985 Surgeon General's Workshop on Violence. Much is already
known about how to reduce and prevent youth violence, but this report will add to the nation's
understanding in this field. It also will address media that have emerged since previous reports,
such as the Internet and video games.
GUN INDUSTRY SHOWS SUPPORT FOR LEGISLATION IN FIVE KEY AREAS
Today, leaders in the firearms industry announced their support for working out legislation in
five areas. Specifically, the American Shooting Sports Council (ASSC), the gun industry's trade
association in Washington, which represents 350 firearms manufacturers and distributors around
the country, released a statement supporting legislation in five areas:
Closing the gun show loophole on Brady background checks. The Treasury
Department estimates that 25-50 percent of the sellers at gun shows are unlicensed and
sell guns without the benefit of a background check. As a result, gun shows can provide
a forum for illegal firearms sales and gun trafficking. The President has proposed
background checks, based on the existing Brady law, for firearms transferred at gun
shows.
Extending the Brady Law to violent juveniles. Although violent youth convicted in
adult courts are barred from owning firearms as adults, the same is not true for youth
convicted of serious violent crimes in juvenile court. The President has proposed
permanently banning all violent juveniles from buying guns -- so that they cannot
purchase a gun on their 21st birthday.
Raising the age of the youth handgun ban to 21 years of age. Federal law generally
bans the possession of handguns by juveniles under the age of 18, and prohibits federal
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gun dealers from selling firearms to anyone under 21 years of age. However, it is
perfectly legal for 18-20 year-olds to possess handguns or to buy them from unlicensed
sellers -- even though law enforcement trace more crime guns to 18 and 19 year-olds than
all other age groups. The President has proposed raising the legal age of handgun
ownership from 18 to 21 years, while maintaining current exemptions for employment,
hunting, target shooting, ranching and military service.
Holding adults responsible for child access to guns. Child Access Prevention (CAP)
laws promote gun safety and responsibility by holding adults responsible if they allow
children easy access to firearms and ammunition. The President has proposed imposing
felony penalties on adults who knowingly or recklessly allow a child to have access to a
gun that is later used to cause death or injury.
Helping law enforcement to trace more firearms used in crimes. Over the past 2
years, the President has expanded comprehensive crime gun tracing to 37 cities -- helping
them to trace all crime guns to their source, to identify illegal gun markets, and to crack
down on gun traffickers. Last year, ATF initiated over 300 investigations in these cities,
which involved over 3,300 illegally trafficked firearms. The President has proposed
expanding comprehensive tracing nationwide, starting by doubling the program to 75
cities.
MAKING THE V-CHIP WORK
The V-Chip is a device that allows parents to block television programming they consider
inappropriate for their children. President Clinton and Vice President Gore led the successful
fight for legislation that requires the V-Chip be installed in all new television sets sold beginning
January 1, 2000. At today's strategy session the President announced two new initiatives to
make sure the V-Chip becomes a useful tool for parents.
V-Chip Task Force. To ensure that the V-Chip law is implemented effectively, the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) will establish a V-Chip Task Force. The Task Force
will: (1) ensure the V-Chip requirement is enforced promptly and comprehensively; (2)
promote parental awareness about the V-Chip and work closely with organizations sharing
this goal; (3) encourage adoption of a standard label identifying television sets that contain
the V-Chip and; (4) study the use of the V-Chip and evaluate the effectiveness of the
industry's ratings system. FCC Chairman William Kennard has appointed Commissioner
Gloria Tristani to chair the Task Force.
The V-Chip Survey and Education Project. According to a survey released today by the
Kaiser Foundation, while many parents (77%) say they want to use the V-Chip, less than
four out of ten parents (39%) has ever seen information on how the system works. The
Kaiser Foundation and the Center for Media Education announced today a major national
effort to educate parents about the V-Chip TV ratings system. The educational campaign
will include free booklets for parents on how the V-chip TV ratings system works. The free
parent information will be available through a toll-free telephone number and will be
promoted through partnerships with TV manufacturers, retailers, parents' organizations,
newspapers, and television stations.
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A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT YOUTH VIOLENCE
Recognizing that youth violence is a problem that government cannot solve alone, the President,
the First Lady, the Vice President and Mrs. Gore called for a national campaign to reduce youth
violence. This campaign will work with all sectors of our society - the media, education groups,
parents, religious leaders, and young people - to focus on this problem, find what's working,
spread it to new communities, while also helping to ensure that the media sends the right
message to our children.
This campaign is modeled after two extremely successful efforts launched by the Clinton
Administration. Four years ago, the President asked for a national campaign to reduce teen
pregnancy. Today, under the leadership of Governor Tom Kean, former governor of New
Jersey, and now the President of Drew University, that campaign is playing an important role in
reducing teen pregnancy rates nationwide. Two years ago, the President called for a national
effort by businesses to hire people off welfare, to make sure the welfare reform effort would
work. Today, under the leadership of Eli Segal, the Welfare to Work Partnership has grown to
10,000 companies that have helped move more than 40,000 people from the welfare rolls to the
job rolls.
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SUBJECT: Re: DOJ revision -- italicized -- to first para of SAP
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I thought you'd say the same we'll let OMB know...jc3
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I am reluctant to make that change -- many Dems are mad at Biden for
collaborating with Hatch & I'm not sure that enough changes have been made
since the last Congress to merit the language.
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CREATION DATE/TIME:10-MAY-1999 20:36:04.00
SUBJECT: Chiefs for the 5/12 event
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FYI
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"Pfeiffer, Daniel" <Daniel.Pfeiffer @ usdoj.gov>
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Chiefs for the 5/12 event
1. Chief Samarra, Alexandria
2. Frazier
3. Sheridan, Baltimore County
4. Deputy Supt. James L. Whigham, Chicago
5. John Farrell, PG County
6. Gary Michell, Conway, South Carolina
7. Deputy Chief from Wilmington, Delaware
8. Deputy from LA
9. Ramsey is a maybe
We are waiting for calls back from a lot of people both local and
national. I will update you as we get more info.
We should also get line officers from Baltimore County, Baltimore,
Alexandria, and PG County for the stage.
We are working on the line officer to speak. I will let you know some
suggestions in the morning when we know more. We have calls into a bunch
of places.
Thanks,
Dan
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SUBJECT: new cops language?
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SUBJECT: 2:00pm message meeting today in Loretta's office
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Should we talk to Senate folks before this after jc3
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Subject:
2:00pm message meeting today in Loretta's office
re: crime event for wednesday
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SUBJECT: Re: sorry...typo in quote...it's late...jc3
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yeah...but check out the quote...jc3
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I also think it's great...one small point.
In graf #13, where we do the 100,000 annoucement, we can that more than
half are already on the street.
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Jordan -
This is great! One small suggestion I would make is in paragraph 6,
fourth sentence: "A bill that boldly took on the gun lobby -- banning
assault weapons and youth handgun possession -- and demanded tougher
punishments for the toughest criminals." The waiting period for handgun
sales was part of the Brady Bill passed in 1993.
Your fellow crime-fighter,
Leanne
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SUBJECT: Re: Hate crimes: In or out?
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currently out
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also have jordan say more than half our cops our on the street...jc3
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The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
May 12, 1999
Today, President Clinton will announce that his COPS program has achieved an important milestone
by helping communities to hire or redeploy 100,000 police officers across the nation. Additionally,
he will propose new legislation -- The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- that
builds on the successful 1994 Crime Act, which has helped to cut the crime rate dramatically across
the nation. This new legislation will renew the Justice Department's COPS program and include
new provisions to reduce juvenile and drug crime, protect crime victims, and combat international
crime and terrorism.
Helping fund 100,000 community-oriented police. President Clinton will announce grants
of more than $95 million for 526 communities to hire approximately 1,500 new police officers.
With these new grants, the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) office will have
provided 11,300 cities with $5.9 billion to help hire and redeploy more than 100,000 police
officers across the country -- fulfilling the President's 1992 pledge to do so.
Building on what works. The President also will propose new legislation -- The 21st Law
Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- that builds on the successful programs enacted as part of
the 1994 Crime Act. The President's new legislation will:
(1) Keep our commitment to law enforcement by renewing the COPS program and providing
funds to hire or redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more police, giving police the high-tech
tools they need to do their job, and hiring more local prosecutors to target local crime problems.
(2) Punish and prevent youth crime and violence by giving prosecutors new tools to punish
the most violent juveniles and curb witness intimidation by gang members; promoting swift and
certain punishment for all juvenile offenders; and working to prevent at-risk youth from
committing serious crimes in the first place.
(3) Break the cycle of drugs and crime by expanding drug courts, helping states and localities
implement "zero tolerance" drug supervision programs that test, treat, and punish all drug
offenders, and putting into place tough provisions on money laundering to help staunch the
flow of illegal drug profits.
(4) Protect all crime victims by enhancing penalties for child abusers who kill and adults who
commit violent crimes in the presence of a child; providing new authorities for federal law
enforcement to protect older Americans from illegal telemarketing, nursing home neglect and
abuse, retirement rip-offs, and health care fraud; and by keeping up the fight against domestic
violence.
(5) Combat international crime and terrorism by prohibiting certain possession and unsafe
handling of biological agents and toxins, and making it more difficult for these agents to fall
into the hands of terrorists.
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KEEPING OUR COMMITMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Renewing the COPS program. The President's 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act extends the COPS program and proposes spending $1.3 billion annually to help
communities continue to hire, redeploy, and retain police officers. It also will give law
enforcement officers access to the latest crime-fighting technologies, and target funds to engage
the entire community in the fight against crime. Specifically, the bill will provide:
- $600 million for more police on the street. These funds would be used primarily to
hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more law enforcement officers over five
years, with an effort to target new police officers to crime "hot spots." A portion of the
funds also would be used to help economically-distressed communities absorb the
long-term costs of their new police hires, and to fund programs to train, educate, and
recruit police officers -- including efforts to train police officers in ethics and integrity
and to promote minority recruitment.
- $350 million for crime-fighting technologies. These funds would be used to help
state and local enforcement agencies gain access to new technologies that will allow
them to communicate more effectively, solve more crimes, and conduct comprehensive
crime analysis. For instance, these funds could be used to: use computers and wireless
communications to send data and images from a police department in one jurisdiction to
a patrol car in the next; improve the state of the nation's overburdened and underfunded
crime labs and make high-end laboratory technologies -- such as DNA analysis -- more
widely available; and expand the use of crime mapping and other technologies that
improve law enforcement's ability to analyze, predict, and respond to local crime trends
and problems.
- $200 million for community prosecutors and neighborhood district attorneys.
As police and community residents have joined forces to fight crime on a proactive
basis, communities also have turned to local prosecutors to play a more active role in
community crime-fighting efforts. These funds will help communities hire more
prosecutors to target neighborhood crime problems.
- $125 million for community-wide crime prevention. The President's new
legislation specifically provides funds to engage the entire community in preventing and
fighting crime. These funds could be used to: work with local school officials in
adopting community-wide plans to prevent school violence; involve faith-based and
other values-based organizations in juvenile crime prevention efforts; and establish
citizens' police academies that teach neighborhood residents problem-solving skills.
Supporting Law Enforcement. The President's new crime legislation also will extend
federal grants to help police departments purchase bullet-proof vests for their police officers
and allow communities to use a portion of COPS funds to help current police officers pay for a
college education or graduate school.
PUNISHING AND PREVENTING YOUTH CRIME AND VIOLENCE
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Cracking down on gangs and violent youth. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act incorporates key provisions of the Anti-Gang and Youth Violence Strategy
announced by the President in 1997. It provides new tools to help federal prosecutors go after
gang criminals and violent youth. Specifically, the bill will:
-- Give prosecutors the discretion to decide whether to try the most serious violent
juveniles as adults, allowing prosecutors to treat appropriately the older and more
serious offenders who may not be adequately punished in the juvenile justice system;
-- Expand law enforcement access to federal juvenile records by requiring that
federal juvenile records involving gun offenses or other adult-type felonies be sent to
the FBI and made available to all law enforcement officers in the same manner as adult
records;
-- Make it easier to prosecute gang members and other violent criminals who
attempt to intimidate or retaliate against witnesses; and
-- Authorize judges to hold gang members without bail pending trial if there is
probable cause to believe they have been involved in criminal activity.
Provide swift, certain, and proportionate punishments for juvenile offenders. The
President's legislation also authorizes new funds for states and localities to ensure swift,
certain, and proportionate punishments whenever juvenile offenders violate the law -- sending
the message that there are clear and certain consequences for breaking the rules. These grants
could be used to fund:
- Graduated sanctions that hold youthful offenders accountable for every offense, and
that escalate in intensity for repeat offenses;
- Teen courts or peer juries to promote zero-tolerance policies for misdemeanor
offenses such as truancy, vandalism, and underage alcohol and tobacco use; and
- Restitution or victim mediation, which requires young offenders and their family
members to meet face-to-face with the victims of their crimes and agree upon
appropriate reparations, including restitution or community service.
Prevent serious juvenile crime in the first place. The President's bill authorizes $95 million
for comprehensive community-based prevention to target at-risk youth, including:
- Mentoring and after school programs to provide positive role models and
responsible adult supervision for young people; and
- Anti-truancy initiatives to keep kids in school and off the streets, where they are
more likely to become victims or perpetrators of crime.
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BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DRUGS AND CRIME
Enforcing "zero tolerance" drug supervision. In 1997, more than three-quarters of the
nation's prisoners reported past drug use, and one in six committed their crimes so they could
purchase drugs. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act addresses this
problem by establishing a new $100 million initiative to help states and localities systematically
test, treat, and sanction drug-involved probationers, prisoners, and parolees. The bill also
reauthorizes the successful drug court initiative established in the 1994 Crime Act, and extends
funding to provide intensive, long-term drug treatment to state prisoners with serious drug
problems.
Enhancing drug penalties and enforcement. The President's bill contains targeted penalty
increases for using kids to sell drugs and selling drugs on or near school property. It also grants
the Attorney General emergency authority to temporarily reschedule certain controlled
substances, on a temporary basis.
Helping states fight drugs and crime. The President's bill extends the Violent Offender
Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) prison grant program, while giving states
additional flexibility to free up additional prison beds by seeking authorization to use up to 25
percent of previously awarded grant funds to implement graduated sanctions programs for
non-violent offenders. Graduated sanction programs hold offenders accountable for every
offense they commit, while escalating in intensity with repeat offenses. The bill also
reauthorizes the Byrne block grant program, which funds statewide anti-drug plans and
multi-jurisdictional drug enforcement task forces.
Cracking down on drug money laundering. Money laundering is a global problem, often
involving international financial institutions and the smuggling of currency across borders. To
continue the Administration's fight against international money laundering and drug crime, the
President's bill will:
-- Help stop the flow of cash drug proceeds by making it a federal crime to smuggle
"bulk cash" (more than $10,000 in currency) out of the United States, and by cracking
down on money transmitters who knowingly accept criminal proceeds from abroad or
who fail to report large cash transactions;
-- Hold foreign banks that violate our laws accountable by allowing federal courts to
exercise jurisdiction over them;
-- Thwart black market transactions by requiring persons who use drug proceeds to
prove they didn't know the money came from unlawful activity; and
-- Seize more illegal drug profits by doing more to confiscate the assets of criminals
and encouraging more cooperation from foreign governments.
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PROTECTING ALL CRIME VICTIMS
Establishing a new safety net for seniors. Falling violent and property crime rates mean our
nation's seniors are safer, but these citizens remain threatened by telemarketing scams,
retirement rip-offs, and abuse and neglect by caretakers. To help protect seniors from these
crimes and punish the criminals who prey on elderly Americans, the President's bill will:
- Shut down fraudulent telemarketers by granting the Attorney General new authority
to block and terminate telephone service to illegal telemarketers;
- Protect nursing home residents from abuse and neglect by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to halt and punish nursing home operators who repeatedly abuse
and neglect the residents in their care;
- Fight health care fraud and abuse by making it easier for the Justice Department to
prosecute and punish illegal kickback schemes -- and harder for criminals to stick
Medicare with the bills by declaring bankruptcy; and
- Safeguard retirement and pension plans by making it a federal crime to defraud
employee pension benefit or retirement funds and increasing penalties for retirement
plan managers who take bribes.
Protecting children exposed to violence. Each year millions of children and adolescents are
victims of violent crime, and millions more witness serious violence or abuse. These children
are more likely to go on to commit violent crimes themselves. The President's bill will make
it easier for federal prosecutors to charge child abusers who kill with first degree murder, and to
bolster the prosecution of adults who commit violent crimes in front of children.
Continuing the fight against domestic violence. The historic Violence Against Women Act
(VAWA) helped to strengthen law enforcement's response to violent crime committed against
women. It helped promote comprehensive law enforcement strategies, encouraged pro-arrest
policies for domestic violence crimes, and provided emergency shelter to women and children
fleeing abusive situations. The President's bill extends these successful programs and also:
- Targets the illegal trafficking of women and children by giving federal prosecutors
new tools to bring trafficking cases and increasing penalties for persons who transport
women and children to the United States and coerce them to work in sweatshops and
other forced labor; and
- Protects battered immigrant women and children by enabling them to file their
own petitions for lawful status, without having to rely on abusive spouses.
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COMBATING TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists. Biological weapons pose a
serious threat to the United States, particularly in the hands of terrorists or disaffected groups.
The President's bill will help keep dangerous biological agents and toxins out of the wrong
hands by:
- Barring unauthorized possession and transfer of harmful biological agents;
- Holding accountable persons who knowingly disregard public health and safety
when handling deadly toxins;
- Making it a crime to perpetrate a hoax involving biological agents; and
- Prohibiting violent felons and fugitives from possessing dangerous biological
agents.
Implementing the President's International Crime Control Strategy. The President's bill
includes key provisions from the International Crime Control Act he introduced last year,
including measures to:
- Create a new federal criminal penalty for port-running, an evasion tactic
employed by contraband smugglers to pass through ports without stopping -- putting
law enforcement and civilians at great risk;
- Strengthen our ability to intercept drug smuggling vessels by making it a criminal
offense for failing to "heave to" a vessel at the direction of a Coast Guard or other
federal law enforcement official seeking to board that vessel;
- Protect Americans abroad by strengthening our authority to investigate and
prosecute organized crime groups who commit crimes against Americans abroad;
- Respond to emerging international crime problems by enhancing enforcement tools
to combat international arms trafficking and requiring additional "end-use" verification
of certain precursor chemicals used to manufacture illegal drugs; and
- Deny safe haven for international fugitives by excluding drug traffickers who
attempt to enter the United States to avoid prosecution in another country.
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CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-199 20:07:50.00
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NB: The attached document from Laura's e-mail had the right text copied,
but the wrong docuement attached. Here's the correct attachment...jc3
Laura Emmett
05/11/99 07:31:25 PM
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21st Century Crime Event briefing & press paper
The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
May 12, 1999
Today, President Clinton will announce that his COPS program has achieved
an important milestone by helping communities to hire or redeploy 100,000
police officers across the nation. Additionally, he will propose new
legislation -- The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act --
that builds on the successful 1994 Crime Act, which has helped to cut the
crime rate dramatically across the nation. This new legislation will
renew the Justice Department,s COPS program and include new provisions to
reduce juvenile and drug crime, protect crime victims, and combat
international crime and terrorism.
Helping fund 100,000 community-oriented police. President
Clinton will announce grants of more than $95 million for 526 communities
to hire approximately 1,500 new police officers. With these new grants,
the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) office will have provided
11,300 cities with $5.9 billion to help hire and redeploy more than
100,000 police officers across the country -- fulfilling the President,s
1992 pledge to do so.
Building on what works. The President also will propose new
legislation -- The 21st Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- that
builds on the successful programs enacted as part of the 1994 Crime Act.
The President,s new legislation will:
(1) Keep our commitment to law enforcement by renewing the COPS program
and providing funds to hire or redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more
police, giving police the high-tech tools they need to do their job, and
hiring more local prosecutors to target local crime problems.
(2) Punish and prevent youth crime and violence by giving prosecutors new
tools to punish the most violent juveniles and curb witness intimidation
by gang members; promoting swift and certain punishment for all juvenile
offenders; and working to prevent at-risk youth from committing serious
crimes in the first place.
(3) Break the cycle of drugs and crime by expanding drug courts, helping
states and localities implement &zero tolerance8 drug supervision programs
that test, treat, and punish all drug offenders, and putting into place
tough provisions on money laundering to help staunch the flow of illegal
drug profits.
(4) Protect all crime victims by enhancing penalties for child abusers who
kill and adults who commit violent crimes in the presence of a child;
providing new authorities for federal law enforcement to protect older
Americans from illegal telemarketing, nursing home neglect and abuse,
retirement rip-offs, and health care fraud; and by keeping up the fight
against domestic violence.
(5) Combat international crime and terrorism by prohibiting certain
possession and unsafe handling of biological agents and toxins, and making
it more difficult for these agents to fall into the hands of terrorists.
KEEPING OUR COMMITMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Renewing the COPS program. The President,s 21st Century Law
Enforcement and Public Safety Act extends the COPS program and proposes
spending $1.3 billion annually to help communities continue to hire,
redeploy, and retain police officers. It also will give law enforcement
officers access to the latest crime-fighting technologies, and target
funds to engage the entire community in the fight against crime.
Specifically, the bill will provide:
- $600 million for more police on the street. These funds would be used
primarily to hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more law
enforcement officers over five years, with an effort to target new police
officers to crime &hot spots.8 A portion of the funds also would be used
to help economically-distressed communities absorb the long-term costs of
their new police hires, and to fund programs to train, educate, and
recruit police officers -- including efforts to train police officers in
ethics and integrity and to promote minority recruitment.
- $350 million for crime-fighting technologies. These funds would be used
to help state and local enforcement agencies gain access to new
technologies that will allow them to communicate more effectively, solve
more crimes, and conduct comprehensive crime analysis. For instance,
these funds could be used to: use computers and wireless communications to
send data and images from a police department in one jurisdiction to a
patrol car in the next; improve the state of the nation,s overburdened and
underfunded crime labs and make high-end laboratory technologies -- such
as DNA analysis -- more widely available; and expand the use of crime
mapping and other technologies that improve law enforcement,s ability to
analyze, predict, and respond to local crime trends and problems.
- $200 million for community prosecutors and neighborhood district
attorneys. As police and community residents have joined forces to fight
crime on a proactive basis, communities also have turned to local
prosecutors to play a more active role in community crime-fighting
efforts. These funds will help communities hire more prosecutors to
target neighborhood crime problems.
- $125 million for community-wide crime prevention. The President,s new
legislation specifically provides funds to engage the entire community in
preventing and fighting crime. These funds could be used to: work with
local school officials in adopting community-wide plans to prevent school
violence; involve faith-based and other values-based organizations in
juvenile crime prevention efforts; and establish citizens, police
academies that teach neighborhood residents problem-solving skills.
Supporting Law Enforcement. The President,s new crime
legislation also will extend federal grants to help police departments
purchase bullet-proof vests for their police officers and allow
communities to use a portion of COPS funds to help current police officers
pay for a college education or graduate school.
PUNISHING AND PREVENTING YOUTH CRIME AND VIOLENCE
Cracking down on gangs and violent youth. The 21st Century Law
Enforcement and Public Safety Act incorporates key provisions of the
Anti-Gang and Youth Violence Strategy announced by the President in 1997.
It provides new tools to help federal prosecutors go after gang criminals
and violent youth. Specifically, the bill will:
-- Give prosecutors the discretion to decide whether to try the most
serious violent juveniles as adults, allowing prosecutors to treat
appropriately the older and more serious offenders who may not be
adequately punished in the juvenile justice system;
-- Expand law enforcement access to federal juvenile records by requiring
that federal juvenile records involving gun offenses or other adult-type
felonies be sent to the FBI and made available to all law enforcement
officers in the same manner as adult records;
-- Make it easier to prosecute gang members and other violent criminals
who attempt to intimidate or retaliate against witnesses; and
-- Authorize judges to hold gang members without bail pending trial if
there is probable cause to believe they have been involved in criminal
activity.
Provide swift, certain, and proportionate punishments for
juvenile offenders. The President,s legislation also authorizes new funds
for states and localities to ensure swift, certain, and proportionate
punishments whenever juvenile offenders violate the law -- sending the
message that there are clear and certain consequences for breaking the
rules. These grants could be used to fund:
- Graduated sanctions that hold youthful offenders accountable for every
offense, and that escalate in intensity for repeat offenses;
- Teen courts or peer juries to promote zero-tolerance policies for
misdemeanor offenses such as truancy, vandalism, and underage alcohol and
tobacco use; and
- Restitution or victim mediation, which requires young offenders and
their family members to meet face-to-face with the victims of their crimes
and agree upon appropriate reparations, including restitution or community
service.
Prevent serious juvenile crime in the first place. The President,
S bill authorizes $95 million for comprehensive community-based prevention
to target at-risk youth, including:
- Mentoring and after school programs to provide positive role models and
responsible adult supervision for young people; and
- Anti-truancy initiatives to keep kids in school and off the streets,
where they are more likely to become victims or perpetrators of crime.
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DRUGS AND CRIME
Enforcing &zero tolerance8 drug supervision. In 1997, more than
three-quarters of the nation,s prisoners reported past drug use, and one
in six committed their crimes so they could purchase drugs. The 21st
Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act addresses this problem by
establishing a new $100 million initiative to help states and localities
systematically test, treat, and sanction drug-involved probationers,
prisoners, and parolees. The bill also reauthorizes the successful drug
court initiative established in the 1994 Crime Act, and extends funding to
provide intensive, long-term drug treatment to state prisoners with
serious drug problems.
Enhancing drug penalties and enforcement. The President,s bill
contains targeted penalty increases for using kids to sell drugs and
selling drugs on or near school property. It also grants the Attorney
General emergency authority to temporarily reschedule certain controlled
substances, on a temporary basis.
Helping states fight drugs and crime. The President,s bill
extends the Violent Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS)
prison grant program, while giving states additional flexibility to free
up additional prison beds by seeking authorization to use up to 25 percent
of previously awarded grant funds to implement graduated sanctions
programs for non-violent offenders. Graduated sanction programs hold
offenders accountable for every offense they commit, while escalating in
intensity with repeat offenses. The bill also reauthorizes the Byrne
block grant program, which funds statewide anti-drug plans and
multi-jurisdictional drug enforcement task forces.
Cracking down on drug money laundering. Money laundering is a
global problem, often involving international financial institutions and
the smuggling of currency across borders. To continue the Administration,
S fight against international money laundering and drug crime, the
President,s bill will:
-- Help stop the flow of cash drug proceeds by making it a federal crime
to smuggle &bulk cash8 (more than $10,000 in currency) out of the United
States, and by cracking down on money transmitters who knowingly accept
criminal proceeds from abroad or who fail to report large cash
transactions;
-- Hold foreign banks that violate our laws accountable by allowing
federal courts to exercise jurisdiction over them;
-- Thwart black market transactions by requiring persons who use drug
proceeds to prove they didn,t know the money came from unlawful activity;
and
-- Seize more illegal drug profits by doing more to confiscate the assets
of criminals and encouraging more cooperation from foreign governments.
PROTECTING ALL CRIME VICTIMS
Establishing a new safety net for seniors. Falling violent and
property crime rates mean our nation,s seniors are safer, but these
citizens remain threatened by telemarketing scams, retirement rip-offs,
and abuse and neglect by caretakers. To help protect seniors from these
crimes and punish the criminals who prey on elderly Americans, the
President,s bill will:
- Shut down fraudulent telemarketers by granting the Attorney General new
authority to block and terminate telephone service to illegal
telemarketers;
- Protect nursing home residents from abuse and neglect by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to halt and punish nursing home operators who
repeatedly abuse and neglect the residents in their care;
- Fight health care fraud and abuse by making it easier for the Justice
Department to prosecute and punish illegal kickback schemes -- and harder
for criminals to stick Medicare with the bills by declaring bankruptcy;
and
- Safeguard retirement and pension plans by making it a federal crime to
defraud employee pension benefit or retirement funds and increasing
penalties for retirement plan managers who take bribes.
Protecting children exposed to violence. Each year millions of
children and adolescents are victims of violent crime, and millions more
witness serious violence or abuse. These children are more likely to go on
to commit violent crimes themselves. The President,s bill will make it
easier for federal prosecutors to charge child abusers who kill with first
degree murder, and to bolster the prosecution of adults who commit
violent crimes in front of children.
Continuing the fight against domestic violence. The historic
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) helped to strengthen law enforcement,s
response to violent crime committed against women. It helped promote
comprehensive law enforcement strategies, encouraged pro-arrest policies
for domestic violence crimes, and provided emergency shelter to women and
children fleeing abusive situations. The President,s bill extends these
successful programs and also:
- Targets the illegal trafficking of women and children by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to bring trafficking cases and increasing penalties
for persons who transport women and children to the United States and
coerce them to work in sweatshops and other forced labor; and
- Protects battered immigrant women and children by enabling them to file
their own petitions for lawful status, without having to rely on abusive
spouses.
COMBATING TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists.
Biological weapons pose a serious threat to the United States,
particularly in the hands of terrorists or disaffected groups. The
President,s bill will help keep dangerous biological agents and toxins out
of the wrong hands by:
- Barring unauthorized possession and transfer of harmful biological
agents;
- Holding accountable persons who knowingly disregard public health and
safety when handling deadly toxins;
- Making it a crime to perpetrate a hoax involving biological agents; and
- Prohibiting violent felons and fugitives from
possessing dangerous biological agents.
Implementing the President,s International Crime Control
Strategy. The President,s bill includes key provisions from the
International Crime Control Act he introduced last year, including
measures to:
- Create a new federal criminal penalty for port-running, an evasion
tactic employed by contraband smugglers to pass through ports without
stopping -- putting law enforcement and civilians at great risk;
- Strengthen our ability to intercept drug smuggling vessels by making it
a criminal offense for failing to &heave to8 a vessel at the direction of
a Coast Guard or other federal law enforcement official seeking to board
that vessel;
- Protect Americans abroad by strengthening our authority to investigate
and prosecute organized crime groups who commit crimes against Americans
abroad;
- Respond to emerging international crime problems by enhancing
enforcement tools to combat international arms trafficking and requiring
additional &end-use8 verification of certain precursor chemicals used to
manufacture illegal drugs; and
- Deny safe haven for international fugitives by excluding drug
traffickers who attempt to enter the United States to avoid prosecution in
another country.
Message Sent
To:
Barry J. Toiv/WHO/EOP
Joseph P. Lockhart/WHO/EOP
Jennifer M. Palmieri/WHO/EOP
Nanda Chitre/WHO/EOP
Elizabeth R. Newman/WHO/EOP
Beverly J. Barnes/WHO/EOP
Ruby Shamir/OPD/EOP
Linda Ricci/OMB/EOP
Dag Vega/WHO/EOP
Julia M. Payne/WHO/EOP
Jason H. Schechter/WHO/EOP
Sarah E. Gegenheimer/WHO/EOP
Julie B. Goldberg/WHO/EOP
Melissa G. Green/OPD/EOP
Heather M. Riley/WHO/EOP
Megan C. Moloney/WHO/EOP
Julianne B. Corbett/WHO/EOP
Richard L. Siewert/WHO/EOP
Karin Kullman/OPD/EOP
Mark D. Neschis/WHO/EOP
Erica S. Lepping/WHO/EOP
Alejandro G. Cabrera/OVP @ OVP
Melissa B. Ratcliff/OVP @ OVP
Deborah Akel/WHO/EOP
David Vandivier/OMB/EOP
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May 11, 1999
UNVEILING OF THE 21ST CENTURY CRIME LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND PUBLIC SAFETY ACT
DATE:
May 12, 1999
LOCATION:
Rose Garden
BRIEFING TIME:
12:15pm - 12:40pm
MEET & GREET:
12:40pm - 12:50pm
EVENT TIME:
12:55pm - 1:55pm
FROM:
Bruce Reed
I.
PURPOSE
To announce that the Administration has reached its goal of helping communities to hire
and redeploy 100,000 police officers and to propose new crime legislation.
II.
BACKGROUND
Today, you will announce that your COPS program has achieved an important milestone
by helping communities to hire or redeploy 100,000 police officers across the nation.
Additionally, you will propose new legislation -- the 21st Century Law Enforcement and
Public Safety Act -- that builds on the successful 1994 Crime Act, which has helped to
cut the crime rate dramatically across the nation. This new legislation will renew the
Justice Department's COPS program and include new provisions to reduce juvenile and
drug crime, protect crime victims, and combat international crime and terrorism.
Helping fund 100,000 community-oriented police. You will announce grants of
more than $95 million for 526 communities to hire approximately 1,500 new
police officers. With these new grants, the Community Oriented Policing
Services (COPS) office will have provided 11,300 cities with $5.9 billion to help
hire and redeploy more than 100,000 police officers across the country -- fulfilling
the your 1992 pledge to do so.
Building on what works. You also will propose new legislation -- the 21st
Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- that builds on the successful
programs enacted as part of the 1994 Crime Act. Your new legislation will:
(1) Keep our commitment to law enforcement by renewing the COPS program
and providing funds to hire or redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more police,
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giving police the high-tech tools they need to do their job, and hiring more local
prosecutors to target local crime problems.
(2) Punish and prevent youth crime and violence by giving prosecutors new
tools to punish the most violent juveniles and curb witness intimidation by gang
members; promoting swift and certain punishment for all juvenile offenders; and
working to prevent at-risk youth from committing serious crimes in the first place.
(3) Break the cycle of drugs and crime by expanding drug courts, helping states
and localities implement "zero tolerance" drug supervision programs that test,
treat, and punish all drug offenders, and putting into place tough provisions on
money laundering to help staunch the flow of illegal drug profits.
(4) Protect all crime victims by enhancing penalties for child abusers who kill
and adults who commit violent crimes in the presence of a child; providing new
authorities for federal law enforcement to protect older Americans from illegal
telemarketing, nursing home neglect and abuse, retirement rip-offs, and health
care fraud; and by keeping up the fight against domestic violence.
(5) Combat international crime and terrorism by prohibiting certain possession
and unsafe handling of biological agents and toxins, and making it more difficult
for these agents to fall into the hands of terrorists.
III.
PARTICIPANTS
Briefing Participants:
Attorney General Janet Reno
Bruce Reed
Jose Cerda
Broderick Johnson
Jordan Tamagni
Event Participants:
Attorney General Janet Reno
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Representative John Conyers (D-MI)
Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI)
Officer Jonathan Hall, Wilmington Police Department
IV.
PRESS PLAN
Open Press.
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
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YOU will greet police officers and event participants in the Oval Office.
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YOU will be announced into the Rose Garden, accompanied by Attorney
General Janet Reno, Senator Patrick Leahy, Representative John Conyers,
Representative Bart Stupak, and Officer Jonathan Hall.
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YOU will make remarks and introduce Officer Jonathan Hall.
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Officer Hall will make remarks and introduce Attorney General Reno.
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Attorney General Reno will make remarks and introduce Sen. Patrick Leahy.
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Sen. Patrick Leahy will make remarks and introduce Rep. John Conyers.
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Rep. John Conyers will make remarks and introduce Rep. Bart Stupak.
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Rep. Bart Stupak will make remarks.
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YOU will return to the podium for closing remarks and depart.
I.
REMARKS
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PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLINTON, VICE PRESIDENT AND MRS. GORE
HOST STRATEGY SESSION ON
CHILDREN, VIOLENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY
Monday, May 10, 1999
Today, the President led a strategy meeting to discuss the problem of youth violence and develop
a strategy for a national campaign to address this problem. The meeting included a broad cross-
section of Americans including parents and children, teachers and religious leaders, law
enforcement and government officials, gun manufacturers and sportsmen, and representatives of
the entertainment industry. The President announced several initiatives to address the problem
of youth violence including a Surgeon General's Report on Youth Violence, gun industry
support for gun legislation in five important areas, and public and private commitments to ensure
the effective implementation of the V-Chip.
SURGEON GENERAL'S REPORT ON YOUTH VIOLENCE
Today, the President announced that he is asking the nation's Surgeon General, Dr. David
Satcher, to prepare a landmark report on youth violence -- the first such study on this subject in
more than a decade. This report will bring together leading experts to review and evaluate
existing research, and build on the findings of the 1972 Surgeon General Report on Television
and Violence, as well as the 1985 Surgeon General's Workshop on Violence. Much is already
known about how to reduce and prevent youth violence, but this report will add to the nation's
understanding in this field. It also will address media that have emerged since previous reports,
such as the Internet and video games.
GUN INDUSTRY SHOWS SUPPORT FOR LEGISLATION IN FIVE KEY AREAS
Today, leaders in the firearms industry announced their support for working out legislation in
five areas. Specifically, the American Shooting Sports Council (ASSC), the gun industry's trade
association in Washington, which represents 350 firearms manufacturers and distributors around
the country, released a statement supporting legislation in five areas:
Closing the gun show loophole on Brady background checks. The Treasury
Department estimates that 25-50 percent of the sellers at gun shows are unlicensed and
sell guns without the benefit of a background check. As a result, gun shows can provide
a forum for illegal firearms sales and gun trafficking. The President has proposed
background checks, based on the existing Brady law, for firearms transferred at gun
shows.
Extending the Brady Law to violent juveniles. Although violent youth convicted in
adult courts are barred from owning firearms as adults, the same is not true for youth
convicted of serious violent crimes in juvenile court. The President has proposed
permanently banning all violent juveniles from buying guns -- so that they cannot
purchase a gun on their 21st birthday.
Raising the age of the youth handgun ban to 21 years of age. Federal law generally
bans the possession of handguns by juveniles under the age of 18, and prohibits federal
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gun dealers from selling firearms to anyone under 21 years of age. However, it is
perfectly legal for 18-20 year-olds to possess handguns or to buy them from unlicensed
sellers -- even though law enforcement trace more crime guns to 18 and 19 year-olds than
all other age groups. The President has proposed raising the legal age of handgun
ownership from 18 to 21 years, while maintaining current exemptions for employment,
hunting, target shooting, ranching and military service.
Holding adults responsible for child access to guns. Child Access Prevention (CAP)
laws promote gun safety and responsibility by holding adults responsible if they allow
children easy access to firearms and ammunition. The President has proposed imposing
felony penalties on adults who knowingly or recklessly allow a child to have access to a
gun that is later used to cause death or injury.
Helping law enforcement to trace more firearms used in crimes. Over the past 2
years, the President has expanded comprehensive crime gun tracing to 37 cities -- helping
them to trace all crime guns to their source, to identify illegal gun markets, and to crack
down on gun traffickers. Last year, ATF initiated over 300 investigations in these cities,
which involved over 3,300 illegally trafficked firearms. The President has proposed
expanding comprehensive tracing nationwide, starting by doubling the program to 75
cities.
MAKING THE V-CHIP WORK
The V-Chip is a device that allows parents to block television programming they consider
inappropriate for their children. President Clinton and Vice President Gore led the successful
fight for legislation that requires the V-Chip be installed in all new television sets sold beginning
January 1, 2000. At today's strategy session the President announced two new initiatives to
make sure the V-Chip becomes a useful tool for parents.
V-Chip Task Force. To ensure that the V-Chip law is implemented effectively, the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) will establish a V-Chip Task Force. The Task Force
will: (1) ensure the V-Chip requirement is enforced promptly and comprehensively; (2)
promote parental awareness about the V-Chip and work closely with organizations sharing
this goal; (3) encourage adoption of a standard label identifying television sets that contain
the V-Chip and; (4) study the use of the V-Chip and evaluate the effectiveness of the
industry's ratings system. FCC Chairman William Kennard has appointed Commissioner
Gloria Tristani to chair the Task Force.
The V-Chip Survey and Education Project. According to a survey released today by the
Kaiser Foundation, while many parents (77%) say they want to use the V-Chip, less than
four out of ten parents (39%) has ever seen information on how the system works. The
Kaiser Foundation and the Center for Media Education announced today a major national
effort to educate parents about the V-Chip TV ratings system. The educational campaign
will include free booklets for parents on how the V-chip TV ratings system works. The free
parent information will be available through a toll-free telephone number and will be
promoted through partnerships with TV manufacturers, retailers, parents' organizations,
newspapers, and television stations.
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A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT YOUTH VIOLENCE
Recognizing that youth violence is a problem that government cannot solve alone, the President,
the First Lady, the Vice President and Mrs. Gore called for a national campaign to reduce youth
violence. This campaign will work with all sectors of our society - the media, education groups,
parents, religious leaders, and young people - to focus on this problem, find what's working,
spread it to new communities, while also helping to ensure that the media sends the right
message to our children.
This campaign is modeled after two extremely successful efforts launched by the Clinton
Administration. Four years ago, the President asked for a national campaign to reduce teen
pregnancy. Today, under the leadership of Governor Tom Kean, former governor of New
Jersey, and now the President of Drew University, that campaign is playing an important role in
reducing teen pregnancy rates nationwide. Two years ago, the President called for a national
effort by businesses to hire people off welfare, to make sure the welfare reform effort would
work. Today, under the leadership of Eli Segal, the Welfare to Work Partnership has grown to
10,000 companies that have helped move more than 40,000 people from the welfare rolls to the
job rolls.
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The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
May 12, 1999
Today, President Clinton will announce that the Administration will reach a milestone in helping
communities fund the hiring and redeployment of 100,000 more police officers. Additionally,
he will propose new legislation -- The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act --
that builds on the successful 1994 Crime Act, which has helped to drive down crime rates for
more than six years in a row. This new legislation will renew the Justice Department's
Community Oriented Policing Services program (COPS), and include new provisions to reduce
juvenile and drug crime, protect all crime victims, and combat international crime and terrorism.
Helping fund 100,000 community-oriented police. President Clinton will announce
grants of more than $95 million for 526 communities to hire approximately 1,500 new
police officers. With these new grants, the COPS office will have provided 11,300 cities
with $5.9 billion to help hire and redeploy more than 100,000 police officers across the
country -- fulfilling the President's 1992 pledge.
Building on what works. The President will also propose new legislation -- The 21st
Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- that builds on the successful programs enacted
as part of the 1994 Crime Act. The President's new legislation will:
(1) Keep our commitment to law enforcement by renewing the COPS program and
providing funds to hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more police, giving
police the high-tech tools they need to do their job, and hiring more local prosecutors to
target local crime problems.
(2) Punish and prevent youth crime and violence by giving prosecutors new tools to
punish the most violent juveniles and curb gang witness intimidation; promoting swift
and certain punishments for all juvenile offenders; and working to prevent at-risk youth
from committing serious crimes in the first place.
(3) Break the cycle of drugs and crime by expanding drug courts and helping states and
localities implement "zero tolerance" drug supervision programs that drug test, treat, and
punish all drug offenders; and by enacting tough new money laundering provisions that
help staunch the flow of illegal drug profits.
(4) Protect all crime victims by enhancing penalties for child abusers who kill and adults
who commit violent crimes in the presence of a child; providing new authorities for
federal law enforcement to protect older Americans from illegal telemarketing, nursing
home neglect and abuse, retirement rip-offs, and health care fraud; and by keeping up the
fight against domestic violence.
(5) Combat international crime and terrorism by prohibiting certain possession and
unsafe handling of biological agents and toxins, and making it more difficult for them to
fall into the hands of terrorists.
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KEEPING OUR COMMITMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Renewing the COPS program. The President's 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act extends the COPS program and proposes spending $1.3 billion annually to help
communities continue to hire, redeploy, and retain police officers. It will also give law
enforcement officers access to the latest crime-fighting technologies, and target funds to
engage the entire community in the fight against crime. Specifically, the bill will provide:
- $600 million for more police on the street. These funds would be used primarily
to hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more law enforcement officers over
five years, with an effort to target new police officers to crime "hot spots." A portion
of the funds would also be used to help economically-distressed communities absorb
the long-term costs of their new police hires, and for programs to train, educate, and
recruit police officers -- including efforts to train police officers in ethics and
integrity, and to promote minority recruitment.
- $350 million for crime-fighting technologies. These funds would be used to help
state and local enforcement agencies tap into new technologies that will allow them to
communicate more effectively, solve more crimes, and conduct comprehensive crime
analysis. For instance, these funds could be used to: utilize computers and wireless
communications to send data and images seamlessly from a police department in one
jurisdiction to a patrol car in the next; improve the state of the nation's overburdened
and underfunded crime labs, and to make high-end technologies -- such as DNA
analysis -- more widely available; and expand the use of crime mapping and other
technologies that improve law enforcement's ability to analyze, predict and respond to
local crime trends and problems.
- $200 million for community prosecutors and neighborhood district attorneys.
As police and community residents have joined forces to fight crime on a proactive
basis, communities also have turned to local prosecutors to play a more active role in
community crime-fighting efforts. These funds will help communities hire more
prosecutors to target neighborhood crime problems.
- $125 million for community-wide crime prevention. The President's new
legislation specifically provides funds to engage the entire community in preventing
and fighting crime. These funds could be used to: work with local school officials in
adopting community-wide plans to prevent school violence; involve values-based
organizations in juvenile crime prevention efforts; and establish citizens' police
academies that teach neighborhood residents problem-solving skills.
Supporting Law Enforcement. The President's new crime legislation will also make it
a federal crime for criminals to use a bullet-proof vest during the commission of a crime,
extend federal grants to help police departments purchase bullet-proof vests for their
police officers, and allow a portion of COPS funds to be used to help current police
officers pay for a college education or graduate school.
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PUNISHING AND PREVENTING YOUTH CRIME AND VIOLENCE
Cracking down on gangs and violent youth. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and
Public Safety Act incorporates key provisions of the Anti-Gang and Youth Violence
Strategy announced by the President in 1997. It provides new tools to help federal
prosecutors go after gang criminals and violent youth. Specifically, the bill will:
-- Give prosecutors the discretion to decide whether to try the most serious
violent juveniles as adults, allowing them to target older and more serious
offenders that may not be adequately punished in the juvenile justice system;
-- Expand law enforcement access to federal juvenile records, requiring that
federal juvenile records involving gun offenses or other adult-type felonies be sent
to the FBI and made available to all law enforcement in the same manner as adult
records;
-- Make it easier to prosecute gang members and other violent criminals who
attempt to intimidate or retaliate against witnesses; and
-- Authorize judges to hold gang members without bail pending trial if there
is probable cause to believe they have been involved in criminal activity.
Provide certain punishment for juvenile offenders. The President's legislation also
authorizes new funds for states and localities to ensure swift and certain punishment
whenever juvenile offenders violate the law -- sending the message that there are clear
and certain consequences for breaking the rules. These grants could be used to fund:
- Graduated sanctions that hold youthful offenders accountable for every
offense, and that escalate in intensity for repeat offenses;
- Teen courts, or peer juries to promote zero tolerance policies for misdemeanor
offenses such as truancy, vandalism, underage alcohol and tobacco use; and
- Restitution or victim mediation, which require young offenders and their
family members to meet face-to-face with the victims of their crimes and agree
upon appropriate reparations -- including restitution or community service.
Prevent serious juvenile crime in the first place. The President's bill authorizes a $95
million for comprehensive, community-based prevention programs that target at-risk
youth. These funds could be used to promote mentoring, gang intervention, truancy
reduction, and other such programs.
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BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DRUGS AND CRIME
Enforcing "zero tolerance" drug supervision. In 1997, more than three-quarters of the
nation's prisoners reported past drug use, and one in six committed their crimes so they
could purchase drugs. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
addresses this problem by establishing a new $100 million initiative to help states and
localities systematically test, treat, and sanction drug-involved probationers, prisoners,
and parolees. The bill also reauthorizes the successful drug court initiative established in
the 1994 Crime Act, and extends funding to provide intensive, long-term drug treatment
to state prisoners with serious drug problems.
Enhancing drug penalties and enforcement. The President's bill contains targeted
drug penalty increases, for using kids to sell drugs and selling drugs on or near school
property. It increases penalties for amphetamine trafficking, which is used to
manufacture methamphetamine, and grants the Attorney General emergency authority to
temporarily reschedule certain controlled substances.
Helping states fight drugs and crime. The President's bill extends the Violent
Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) prison grant program, and gives
states the added flexibility to free up additional prison beds by seeking authorization to
use up to 25 percent of previously awarded grant funds to implement graduated sanctions
programs for non-violent offenders. Graduated sanction programs hold offenders
accountable for every offense they commit and escalate in intensity with repeat offenses.
The bill also reauthorizes the Byrne block grant program, which funds statewide anti-drug
plans and multi-jurisdictional drug enforcement task forces.
Cracking down on drug money laundering. Our money laundering laws have not been
updated since they were first enacted in 1986. Since that time, money laundering has
become a global problem -- involving international financial institutions and the
smuggling of currency across borders. To take on international money laundering and
drug crime, the President's bill will:
-- Help stop the flow of cash drug proceeds by making it a federal crime to
smuggle "bulk cash" (more than $10,000 in currency) out of the United States,
and by cracking down on money transmitters who knowingly accept criminal
proceeds from abroad or who fail to report large cash transactions;
-- Hold foreign banks that violate our laws accountable by allowing federal
courts to exercise jurisdiction over them;
-- Thwart black market transactions by requiring persons who use drug
proceeds to prove they didn't know the money came from unlawful activity; and
-- Seize more illegal drug profits by doing more to confiscate the assets of
criminals and encouraging more cooperation from foreign governments.
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PROTECTING ALL CRIME VICTIMS
Establishing a new safety net for seniors. Although falling violent and property
crime rates mean our nation's seniors are safer but remain threatened by by
telemarketing scams, retirement rip-offs, and abuse and neglect at the hands of the
very people entrusted to care for them. To help protect seniors from these crimes
and punish the criminals who prey on elderly Americans, the President's bill will:
- Shut down fraudulent telemarketers by granting the Attorney General new
authority to block and terminate telephone service to illegal telemarketers;
- Protect nursing home residents from abuse and neglect by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to halt and punish nursing home operators who repeatedly
abuse and neglect the residents in their care;
- Fight health care fraud and abuse by making it easier for the Justice
Department to prosecute and punish illegal kickback schemes -- and harder for
criminals to stick Medicare with the bills by declaring bankruptcy;
- Safeguard retirement and pension plans by making it a federal crime to
defraud employee pension benefit or retirement funds and increasing penalties for
retirement plan managers who take bribes.
Protecting children exposed to violence. Each year millions of children and
adolescents are victims of violent crime and millions more witness serious violence or
abuse. These children are more likely to go on to commit violent crimes themselves.
The President's bill will make it easier for federal prosecutors to charge child abusers
who kill with first degree murder murder, and strengthen federal law to bolster the
prosecution of adults who commit violent crimes in front of children.
Continuing the fight against domestic violence. The historic Violence Against
Women Act (VAWA) helped to strengthen law enforcement's response to violent crime
committed against women. It helped promoted comprehensive law enforcement
strategies, encouraged pro-arrest polices for domestic violence crimes, and provided
emergency shelter to women and children fleeing abusive situations. The President's bill
extends these successful program and also:
- Targets the illegal trafficking of women and children by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to bring trafficking cases, and increasing penalties for
persons who transport women and children to the United States and coerce them
to work in sweatshops and other forced labor.
- Protects battered immigrant women and children by enabling them to file
their own petitions for lawful status, without having to rely on abusive spouses.
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COMBATING TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists. Biological weapons pose
a serious threat to the United States, particularly in the hands of terrorists or disaffected
groups. The President's bill will help keep dangerous biological agents and toxins out of
the wrong hands by:
- Barring unauthorized possession and transfer of harmful biological agents;
- Holding accountable persons who knowingly disregard public health and
safety when handling deadly toxins;
- Making it a crime to perpetrate a hoax involving biological agents; and
- Prohibiting violent felons and fugitives from possessing dangerous
biological agents.
Implementing the President's International Crime Control Strategy. The
President's bill includes key provisions from The International Crime Control Act he
introduced last year, including measures to:
- Create a new federal criminal penalty for port-running, an evasion tactic
employed by contraband smugglers to pass through ports without stopping --
putting law enforcement and civilians at great risk;
- Strengthen our ability to intercept drug smuggling vessels by making it a
criminal offense for failing to "heave to" a vessel at the direction of a Coast Guard
or other federal law enforcement official seeking to board that vessel;
- Protect Americans abroad by strengthening our authority to investigate and
prosecute organized crime groups who commit crimes against Americans abroad;
- Respond to emerging international crime problems by enhancing
enforcement tools to combat international arms trafficking, and requiring
additional "end-use" verification of certain precursor chemicals used to
manufacture illegal drugs; and
- Deny safe haven for international fugitives by excluding drug traffickers, their
immediate family members, and others who attempt to enter the United States to
avoid prosecution in another country.
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 19:37:21.00
SUBJECT: Re: this should fit.,
TO: Lisa Gordon-Hagerty ( CN=Lisa Gordon-Hagerty/OU=NSC/O=EOP @ EOP [ NSC 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
The bio-weapons piece is on the last page...jc3
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/11/99
07:38 PM
Laura Emmett
05/11/99 07:22:34 PM
Record Type: Record
To:
Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
cc:
Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OPD/EOP
bcc:
Subject:
Re: this should fit
Jose Cerda III
05/11/99 07:21:45 PM
Record Type: Record
To:
Laura Emmett/WHO/EOP@EOP
cc:
Subject:
this should fit
e-mail me paper as soon as you have it...I have a reporter on hold...jc3
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/11/99
07:22 PM
Leanne A. Shimabukuro
05/11/99 07:15:45 PM
Record Type: Record
To:
Laura Emmett/WHO/EOP
cc:
Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
Subject:
this should fit
Prevent serious juvenile crime in the first place. The President,s bill
authorizes $95 million for comprehensive community-based prevention to
target at-risk youth, including:
- Mentoring and after school programs to provide positive role models and
responsible adult supervision for young people; and
- Anti-truancy initiatives to keep kids in school, and off the streets --
where they are more likely to become victims or perpetrators of crime.
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The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
May 12, 1999
Today, President Clinton will announce that his COPS program has achieved an important
milestone by helping communities to hire or redeploy 100,000 police officers across the nation.
Additionally, he will propose new legislation -- The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act -- that builds on the successful 1994 Crime Act, which has helped to cut the crime rate
dramatically across the nation. This new legislation will renew the Justice Department's COPS
program and include new provisions to reduce juvenile and drug crime, protect crime victims,
and combat international crime and terrorism.
Helping fund 100,000 community-oriented police. President Clinton will announce
grants of more than $95 million for 526 communities to hire approximately 1,500 new
police officers. With these new grants, the Community Oriented Policing Services
(COPS) office will have provided 11,300 cities with $5.9 billion to help hire and redeploy
more than 100,000 police officers across the country -- fulfilling the President's 1992
pledge to do so.
Building on what works. The President also will propose new legislation -- The 21st
Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- that builds on the successful programs enacted
as part of the 1994 Crime Act. The President's new legislation will:
(1) Keep our commitment to law enforcement by renewing the COPS program and
providing funds to hire or redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more police, giving police
the high-tech tools they need to do their job, and hiring more local prosecutors to target
local crime problems.
(2) Punish and prevent youth crime and violence by giving prosecutors new tools to
punish the most violent juveniles and curb witness intimidation by gang members;
promoting swift and certain punishment for all juvenile offenders; and working to prevent
at-risk youth from committing serious crimes in the first place.
(3) Break the cycle of drugs and crime by expanding drug courts, helping states and
localities implement "zero tolerance" drug supervision programs that test, treat, and
punish all drug offenders, and putting into place tough provisions on money laundering to
help staunch the flow of illegal drug profits.
(4) Protect all crime victims by enhancing penalties for child abusers who kill and adults
who commit violent crimes in the presence of a child; providing new authorities for
federal law enforcement to protect older Americans from illegal telemarketing, nursing
home neglect and abuse, retirement rip-offs, and health care fraud; and by keeping up the
fight against domestic violence.
(5) Combat international crime and terrorism by prohibiting certain possession and
unsafe handling of biological agents and toxins, and making it more difficult for these
agents to fall into the hands of terrorists.
KEEPING OUR COMMITMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
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Renewing the COPS program. The President's 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act extends the COPS program and proposes spending $1.3 billion annually to help
communities continue to hire, redeploy, and retain police officers. It also will give law
enforcement officers access to the latest crime-fighting technologies, and target funds to
engage the entire community in the fight against crime. Specifically, the bill will provide:
- $600 million for more police on the street. These funds would be used primarily
to hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more law enforcement officers over
five years, with an effort to target new police officers to crime "hot spots." A portion
of the funds also would be used to help economically-distressed communities absorb
the long-term costs of their new police hires, and to fund programs to train, educate,
and recruit police officers -- including efforts to train police officers in ethics and
integrity and to promote minority recruitment.
- $350 million for crime-fighting technologies. These funds would be used to help
state and local enforcement agencies gain access to new technologies that will allow
them to communicate more effectively, solve more crimes, and conduct
comprehensive crime analysis. For instance, these funds could be used to: use
computers and wireless communications to send data and images from a police
department in one jurisdiction to a patrol car in the next; improve the state of the
nation's overburdened and underfunded crime labs and make high-end laboratory
technologies -- such as DNA analysis -- more widely available; and expand the use of
crime mapping and other technologies that improve law enforcement's ability to
analyze, predict, and respond to local crime trends and problems.
- $200 million for community prosecutors and neighborhood district attorneys.
As police and community residents have joined forces to fight crime on a proactive
basis, communities also have turned to local prosecutors to play a more active role in
community crime-fighting efforts. These funds will help communities hire more
prosecutors to target neighborhood crime problems.
- $125 million for community-wide crime prevention. The President's new
legislation specifically provides funds to engage the entire community in preventing
and fighting crime. These funds could be used to: work with local school officials in
adopting community-wide plans to prevent school violence; involve faith-based and
other values-based organizations in juvenile crime prevention efforts; and establish
citizens' police academies that teach neighborhood residents problem-solving skills.
Supporting Law Enforcement. The President's new crime legislation also will extend
federal grants to help police departments purchase bullet-proof vests for their police
officers and allow communities to use a portion of COPS funds to help current police
officers pay for a college education or graduate school.
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PUNISHING AND PREVENTING YOUTH CRIME AND VIOLENCE
Cracking down on gangs and violent youth. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and
Public Safety Act incorporates key provisions of the Anti-Gang and Youth Violence
Strategy announced by the President in 1997. It provides new tools to help federal
prosecutors go after gang criminals and violent youth. Specifically, the bill will:
-- Give prosecutors the discretion to decide whether to try the most serious
violent juveniles as adults, allowing prosecutors to treat appropriately the older
and more serious offenders who may not be adequately punished in the juvenile
justice system;
-- Expand law enforcement access to federal juvenile records by requiring that
federal juvenile records involving gun offenses or other adult-type felonies be sent
to the FBI and made available to all law enforcement officers in the same manner
as adult records;
-- Make it easier to prosecute gang members and other violent criminals who
attempt to intimidate or retaliate against witnesses; and
-- Authorize judges to hold gang members without bail pending trial if there
is probable cause to believe they have been involved in criminal activity.
Provide swift, certain, and proportionate punishments for juvenile offenders. The
President's legislation also authorizes new funds for states and localities to ensure swift,
certain, and proportionate punishments whenever juvenile offenders violate the law --
sending the message that there are clear and certain consequences for breaking the rules.
These grants could be used to fund:
- Graduated sanctions that hold youthful offenders accountable for every
offense, and that escalate in intensity for repeat offenses;
- Teen courts or peer juries to promote zero-tolerance policies for misdemeanor
offenses such as truancy, vandalism, and underage alcohol and tobacco use; and
- Restitution or victim mediation, which requires young offenders and their
family members to meet face-to-face with the victims of their crimes and agree
upon appropriate reparations, including restitution or community service.
Prevent serious juvenile crime in the first place. The President's bill authorizes $95
million for comprehensive community-based prevention to target at-risk youth, including:
- Mentoring and after school programs to provide positive role models and
responsible adult supervision for young people; and
- Anti-truancy initiatives to keep kids in school and off the streets, where they
are more likely to become victims or perpetrators of crime.
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BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DRUGS AND CRIME
Enforcing "zero tolerance" drug supervision. In 1997, more than three-quarters of the
nation's prisoners reported past drug use, and one in six committed their crimes so they
could purchase drugs. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
addresses this problem by establishing a new $100 million initiative to help states and
localities systematically test, treat, and sanction drug-involved probationers, prisoners,
and parolees. The bill also reauthorizes the successful drug court initiative established in
the 1994 Crime Act, and extends funding to provide intensive, long-term drug treatment
to state prisoners with serious drug problems.
Enhancing drug penalties and enforcement. The President's bill contains targeted
penalty increases for using kids to sell drugs and selling drugs on or near school property.
It also grants the Attorney General emergency authority to temporarily reschedule certain
controlled substances, on a temporary basis.
Helping states fight drugs and crime. The President's bill extends the Violent Offender
Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) prison grant program, while giving states
additional flexibility to free up additional prison beds by seeking authorization to use up
to 25 percent of previously awarded grant funds to implement graduated sanctions
programs for non-violent offenders. Graduated sanction programs hold offenders
accountable for every offense they commit, while escalating in intensity with repeat
offenses. The bill also reauthorizes the Byrne block grant program, which funds
statewide anti-drug plans and multi-jurisdictional drug enforcement task forces.
Cracking down on drug money laundering. Money laundering is a global problem,
often involving international financial institutions and the smuggling of currency across
borders. To continue the Administration's fight against international money laundering
and drug crime, the President's bill will:
-- Help stop the flow of cash drug proceeds by making it a federal crime to
smuggle "bulk cash" (more than $10,000 in currency) out of the United States,
and by cracking down on money transmitters who knowingly accept criminal
proceeds from abroad or who fail to report large cash transactions;
-- Hold foreign banks that violate our laws accountable by allowing federal
courts to exercise jurisdiction over them;
-- Thwart black market transactions by requiring persons who use drug
proceeds to prove they didn't know the money came from unlawful activity; and
-- Seize more illegal drug profits by doing more to confiscate the assets of
criminals and encouraging more cooperation from foreign governments.
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PROTECTING ALL CRIME VICTIMS
Establishing a new safety net for seniors. Falling violent and property crime rates
mean our nation's seniors are safer, but these citizens remain threatened by telemarketing
scams, retirement rip-offs, and abuse and neglect by caretakers. To help protect seniors
from these crimes and punish the criminals who prey on elderly Americans, the
President's bill will:
- Shut down fraudulent telemarketers by granting the Attorney General new
authority to block and terminate telephone service to illegal telemarketers;
- Protect nursing home residents from abuse and neglect by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to halt and punish nursing home operators who repeatedly
abuse and neglect the residents in their care;
- Fight health care fraud and abuse by making it easier for the Justice
Department to prosecute and punish illegal kickback schemes -- and harder for
criminals to stick Medicare with the bills by declaring bankruptcy; and
- Safeguard retirement and pension plans by making it a federal crime to
defraud employee pension benefit or retirement funds and increasing penalties for
retirement plan managers who take bribes.
Protecting children exposed to violence. Each year millions of children and adolescents
are victims of violent crime, and millions more witness serious violence or abuse. These
children are more likely to go on to commit violent crimes themselves. The President's
bill will make it easier for federal prosecutors to charge child abusers who kill with first
degree murder, and to bolster the prosecution of adults who commit violent crimes in
front of children.
Continuing the fight against domestic violence. The historic Violence Against Women
Act (VAWA) helped to strengthen law enforcement's response to violent crime
committed against women. It helped promote comprehensive law enforcement strategies,
encouraged pro-arrest policies for domestic violence crimes, and provided emergency
shelter to women and children fleeing abusive situations. The President's bill extends
these successful programs and also:
- Targets the illegal trafficking of women and children by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to bring trafficking cases and increasing penalties for
persons who transport women and children to the United States and coerce them
to work in sweatshops and other forced labor; and
- Protects battered immigrant women and children by enabling them to file
their own petitions for lawful status, without having to rely on abusive spouses.
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COMBATING TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists. Biological weapons pose a
serious threat to the United States, particularly in the hands of terrorists or disaffected
groups. The President's bill will help keep dangerous biological agents and toxins out of
the wrong hands by:
- Barring unauthorized possession and transfer of harmful biological agents;
- Holding accountable persons who knowingly disregard public health and
safety when handling deadly toxins;
- Making it a crime to perpetrate a hoax involving biological agents; and
- Prohibiting violent felons and fugitives from possessing dangerous
biological agents.
Implementing the President's International Crime Control Strategy. The President's
bill includes key provisions from the International Crime Control Act he introduced last
year, including measures to:
- Create a new federal criminal penalty for port-running, an evasion tactic
employed by contraband smugglers to pass through ports without stopping --
putting law enforcement and civilians at great risk;
- Strengthen our ability to intercept drug smuggling vessels by making it a
criminal offense for failing to "heave to" a vessel at the direction of a Coast Guard
or other federal law enforcement official seeking to board that vessel;
- Protect Americans abroad by strengthening our authority to investigate and
prosecute organized crime groups who commit crimes against Americans abroad;
- Respond to emerging international crime problems by enhancing
enforcement tools to combat international arms trafficking and requiring
additional "end-use" verification of certain precursor chemicals used to
manufacture illegal drugs; and
- Deny safe haven for international fugitives by excluding drug traffickers who
attempt to enter the United States to avoid prosecution in another country.
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Clinton Presidential Records
Automated Records Management System
[EMAIL] and Tape Restoration Project [Email]
This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative
marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff.
This marker identifies a responsive email, already made available
within another collection.
Collection: Elena Kagan Systematic Processing Project
Bucket: OPD
Creation Date: 1999-05-11
Subject: bad news
Creator: Jose Cerda III
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 22:09:33.00
SUBJECT: AG edit
TO: Jordan Tamagni ( CN=Jordan Tamagni/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO ] )
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
AG called to request speech change...not huge, but important to her, and
part of our devil's pact to get her to do this event at all. In graf 12,
she doesn't want POTUS to say "we are finishing the job." ["We are only
committing funds; we are not finished yet..."] How about we say, "...and
today, we are fullfilling that pledge..." or something to that effect?
jc3
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 22:06:15.00
SUBJECT: Bio-Terrorism
TO: Lisa Gordon-Hagerty ( CN=Lisa Gordon-Hagerty/OU=NSC/O=EOP @ EOP [ NSC )
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
LGH:
Thought you'd want to know Shalala called my boss at home tonight to
complain about the crime bill and biological weapons Also, see attached
article on crime bill one way or the other we're moving forward jc3
Date: 05/11/99 Time: 20:25
CClinton announcing last of police-hiring subsidies
WASHINGTON (AP) Announcing grants to reach a goal of putting
100,000 new police officers on the street, President Clinton
planned Wednesday to ask Congress to toughen penalties for misuse
of biological agents that can be used as weapons.
Clinton has made his commitment to put 100,000 more cops on the
street through federal subsidies a hallmark of his administration.
Although the actual number of new officers is running behind the
number funded, administration officials were treating the latest
round of grants as a milestone.
As he presents $95 million in grants for the last 1,500
officers, Clinton planned to push Congress to renew the community
policing program for five years and embrace his crime package,
especially its initiatives aimed at cutting juvenile violence.
Clinton also planned to unveil legislation to toughen penalties
for unauthorized possession of harmful biological agents like
anthrax and hold certified handlers of such materials accountable
for their misuse, an administration officials said Tuesday.
``It essentially bans the possession of these agents for other
than peaceful purposes and makes the unsafe handling of them a
crime as well," said the official, speaking on condition of
anonymity.
Among the 526 grants being announced Wednesday, officials said,
were $2.3 million to hire 30 new officers for the Miami-Dade Public
Schools police in Florida; $1.5 million to hire 20 new officers in
Raleigh, N.C.; $1.9 million for 20 new officers in Fairfax, Va.,
and $1.6 million for 21 new officers in Irvington, N.J. A
half-dozen towns in Puerto Rico were receiving funds for 137 new
officers.
Republicans have accused the administration of failing to make
good on the 100,000 cops pledge. And a recent Justice Department
Inspector General's report said several state and local police
agencies had used the grants to supplant rather than supplement
state and local funds.
Administration officials said that there is a lag of up to 18
months between the time an agency receives the funds and when a new
trainee is ready to hit the streets, claim Clinton can boast of
more than 50,000 new officers already on the beat.
There is also some flexibility for police agencies who want to
use funds to upgrade communications and other gear in order to free
up officers for patrols.
Jose Cerda of the White House domestic policy team said the
agencies investigated by the Justice Department's inspector general
represented less than 1 percent of the recipients and were singled
out for review because of administration suspicions.
``Every indication from the Justice Department, from surveys
that they conduct regularly, is that every six months there are
more cops on the street," Cerda said. "The program is working
well."
Clinton wants to extend the community policing program. He would
spend $1.3 billion annually to help local governments to continue
to hire more police, buy bulletproof vests and improved
communications gear, hire more prosecutors and engage more closely
with schools and community leaders.
APNP-05-11-99 2028EDT
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 17:20:30.00
SUBJECT: Re: PERF
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
kk was goig to loop back w/her...jc3
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 11:35:13.00
SUBJECT: remembered 3rd thing snappy graphs, handouts more cops...less crime
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 14:06:45.00
SUBJECT: Re: Beginning Goes Like This
TO: Jordan Tamagni ( CN=Jordan Tamagni/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
papa like!
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 14:43:28.00
SUBJECT: things
TO: Karin Kullman ( CN=Karin Kullman/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
LS/KK:
1. Anybody get w/Pasco on invites?
2. Is the VP attending? Who can we get to acknowledge all of the cop
groups?
3. LS...have you followed-up w/folks on edits to paper?
4. LS...do we have a 3pm w/Johnny B?
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 11:06:21.00
SUBJECT: First Draft of Crime Bill Handout
TO: Charles A. Blanchard ( CN=Charles A. Blanchard/OU=ONDCP/O=EOP @ EOP [ ONDCP 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Chuck:
Forgot to send this to you...jc3
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/11/99
11:07 AM
Jose Cerda III
05/10/99 11:44:30 PM
Record Type: Record
To:
See the distribution list at the bottom of this message
cc:
Subject:
First Draft of Crime Bill Handout
BR/EK/et.al.:
Some crime pleasure reading here's the first draft of our hand-out for
Wednesday event. Thoughts? Reactions?
Message Sent
To:
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Elena Kagan/OPD/EOP
Mary L. Smith/OPD/EOP
Thomas L. Freedman/OPD/EOP
Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OPD/EOP
Karin Kullman/OPD/EOP
James Boden/OMB/EOP
Jordan Tamagni/WHO/EOP
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The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
May 12, 1999
Today, President Clinton will announce that the Administration will reach its goal of helping
communities fund the hiring and redeployment of 100,000 more police officers. Additionally,
he will propose new legislation -- The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
that builds on the successful 1994 Crime Act, which has helped to drive down crime rates for
more than six years in a row. This new legislation will renew the Justice Department's
Community Oriented Policing Services program (COPS), and include new provisions to reduce
juvenile and drug crime, protect all crime victims, and combat international crime and terrorism.
Helping fund 100,000 more police. President Clinton will announce the availability of
more than $95 million for 526 communities to hire approximately 1,500 new police
officers. With these new grants, the COPS office will have provided cities with
$
billion to help hire and redeploy more than 100,000 police officers across the
country -- fulfilling the President's 1992 pledge.
Building on what works. The President will also propose new legislation -- The 21st
Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- that builds on the successful programs enacted
as part of the 1994 Crime Act. The President's new legislation will:
(1) Keep our commitment to law enforcement by renewing the COPS program and
providing funds to hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more police, giving
police the high-tech tools they need to do their job, and hiring more local prosecutors to
target local crime problems.
(2) Punish and prevent youth crime and violence by giving prosecutors new tools to
punish the most violent juveniles and curb gang witness intimidation; promoting swift
and certain punishments for all juvenile offenders; and working to prevent at-risk youth
from committing serious crimes in the first place.
(3) Break the cycle of drugs and crime by expanding drug courts and helping states and
localities implement "zero tolerance" drug supervision programs that drug test, treat, and
punish all drug offenders; and by enacting tough new money laundering provisions that
help staunch the flow of illegal drug profits.
(4) Protect all crime victims by enhancing penalties for child abusers who kill and adults
who commit violent crimes in the presence of a child; providing new authorities for
federal law enforcement to protect older Americans from illegal telemarketing, nursing
home neglect and abuse, retirement rip-offs, and health care fraud; and by keeping up the
fight against domestic violence.
(5) Combat international crime and terrorism by prohibiting certain possession and
unsafe handling of biological agents and toxins, and making it more difficult for them to
fall into the hands of terrorists.
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KEEPING OUR COMMITMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Renewing the COPS program. The President's 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act extends the COPS program and proposes spending $1.3 billion annually to help
communities continue to hire, redeploy, and retain police officers. It will also give law
enforcement officers access to the latest crime-fighting technologies, and target funds to
engage the entire community in the fight against crime. Specifically, the bill will provide:
- $600 million for more police on the street. These funds would be used primarily
to hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more law enforcement officers over
five years, with an effort to target new police officers to crime "hot spots." A portion
of the funds would also be used to help economically-distressed communities absorb
the long-term costs of their new police hires, and for programs to train, educate, and
recruit police officers -- including efforts to train police officers in ethics and
integrity, and to promote minority recruitment.
- $350 million for crime-fighting technologies. These funds would be used to help
state and local enforcement agencies tap into new technologies that will allow them to
communicate more effectively, solve more crimes, and conduct comprehensive crime
analysis. For instance, these funds could be used to: utilize computers and wireless
communications to send data and images seamlessly from a police department in one
jurisdiction to a patrol car in the next; improve the state of the nation's overburdened
and underfunded crime labs, and to make high-end technologies -- such as DNA
analysis -- more widely available; and expand the use of crime mapping and other
technologies that improve law enforcement's ability to analyze, predict and respond to
local crime trends and problems.
- $200 million for community prosecutors and neighborhood district attorneys.
As police and community residents have joined forces to fight crime on a proactive
basis, communities also have turned to local prosecutors to play a more active role in
community crime-fighting efforts. These funds will help communities hire more
prosecutors to target neighborhood crime problems.
- $150 million for community-wide crime prevention. The President's new
legislation specifically provides funds to engage the entire community in preventing
and fighting crime. These funds could be used to: work with local school officials in
adopting community-wide plans to prevent school violence; involve faith-based
organizations in juvenile crime prevention efforts; and establish citizens' police
academies that teach neighborhood residents problem-solving skills.
Supporting Law Enforcement. The President's new crime legislation will also make it
a federal crime for criminals to use a bullet-proof vest during the commission of a crime,
extend federal grants to help police departments purchase bullet-proof vests for their
police officers, and allow a portion of COPS funds to be used to help current police
officers pay for a college education or graduate school.
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PUNISHING AND PREVENTING YOUTH CRIME AND VIOLENCE
Cracking down on gangs and violent youth. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and
Public Safety Act incorporates key provisions of the Anti-Gang and Youth Violence
Strategy announced by the President in 1997. It provides new tools to help federal
prosecutors go after gang criminals and serious, violent youth. Specifically, the bill will:
-- Give prosecutors the discretion to decide whether to try the most serious
violent juveniles as adults, allowing them to target older and more serious
offenders that may not be adequately punished in the juvenile justice system;
-- Expand law enforcement access to juvenile records, requiring that juvenile
records involving gun offenses or other adult-type felonies be sent to the FBI and
made available to all law enforcement in the same manner as adult records;
-- Make it easier to prosecute gang members who attempt to intimidate or
retaliate against witnesses; and
-- Authorize judges to hold gang members without bail pending trial if there
is probable cause to believe they have been involved in criminal activity.
Provide certain punishment for juvenile offenders. The President's legislation also
authorizes new funds for states and localities to ensure swift and certain punishment
whenever juvenile offenders violate the law -- sending the message that there are clear
and certain consequences for breaking the rules. These grants could be used to fund::
- Graduated sanctions that hold youthful offenders accountable for every
offense, and that escalate in intensity for repeat offenses;
- Teen courts, or peer juries to promote zero tolerance policies for misdemeanor
offenses such as truancy, vandalism, underage alcohol and tobacco use; and
- Restitution or victim mediation, which require young offenders and their
family members to meet face-to-face with the victims of their crimes and agree
upon appropriate reparations -- including restitution or community service.
Prevent serious juvenile crime in the first place. The President's bill authorizes a $95
million for comprehensive, community-based prevention programs that target at-risk
youth. These funds could be used to promote mentoring, gang intervention, truancy
reduction, and other such programs.
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BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DRUGS AND CRIME
Enforcing "zero tolerance" drug supervision. In 1997, more than three-quarters of the
nation's prisoners reported past drug use, and one in six committed their crimes so they
could purchase drugs. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
addresses this problem by establishing a new $100 million initiative to help states and
localities systematically test, treat, and sanction drug-involved probationers, prisoners,
and parolees. His bill also reauthorizes the successful drug court initiative established in
the 1994 Crime Act, and extends funding to provide intensive, long-term drug treatment
to state prisoners with serious drug problems.
Enhancing drug penalties and enforcement. The President's bill contains targeted
drug penalty increases, for using kids to sell drugs and selling drugs on or near school
property. It increases penalties for amphetamine trafficking, which is used to
manufacture methamphetamine, and grants the Attorney General emergency authority to
temporarily reschedule certain controlled substances, such as
.
Helping states fight drugs and crime. The President's bill extends funding for the
Violent Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) prison grant program, and
gives states the added flexibility to free up additional prison beds by using up to 25
percent of already appropriated funds to implement graduated sanctions programs for
non-violent offenders. Graduated sanction programs hold offenders accountable for
every offense they commit and escalate in intensity with repeat offenses. The bill also
reauthorizes the Byrne block grant program, which funds statewide anti-drug plans and
multi-jurisdictional drug enforcement task forces.
Cracking down on drug money laundering. Our money laundering laws have not been
updated since they were first enacted in 1986. Since that time, money laundering has
become a global problem -- involving international financial institutions and the
smuggling of currency across borders. To take on international money laundering and
drug crime, the President's bill will:
-- Help stop the flow of cash drug proceeds by making it a federal crime to
smuggle "bulk cash" (more than $10,000 in currency) out of the United States,
and by cracking down on money transmitters who knowingly accept criminal
proceeds from abroad or who fail to report large cash transactions;
-- Hold foreign banks that violate our laws accountable by allowing federal
courts to exercise jurisdiction over them;
-- Thwart black market transactions by requiring persons who use drug
proceeds to prove they didn't know the money came from unlawful activity; and
-- Seize more illegal drug profits by doing more to confiscate the assets of
criminals and encouraging more cooperation from foreign governments.
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PROTECTING ALL CRIME VICTIMS
Establishing a new safety net for seniors. Although falling violent and property
crime rates mean our nation's seniors are safer, they are equally threatened today by
telemarketing scams, retirement rip-offs, and abuse and neglect at the hands of the
very people entrusted to care for them. To help protect seniors from these crimes
and punish the criminals who prey on elderly Americans, the President's bill will:
- Shut down fraudulent telemarketers by granting the Attorney General new
authority to block and terminate telephone service to illegal telemarketers;
- Protect nursing home residents from abuse and neglect by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to halt and punish nursing home operators who repeatedly
abuse and neglect the residents in their care;
- Fight health care fraud and abuse by making it easier for the Justice
Department to prosecute and punish illegal kickback schemes -- and harder for
criminals to stick Medicare with the bills by declaring bankruptcy;
- Safeguard retirement and pension plans by making it a federal crime to
defraud employee pension benefit or retirement funds and increasing penalties for
retirement plan managers who take bribes.
Protecting children exposed to violence. Each year millions of adolescents are
victims of violent crime and millions more witness or experience serious violence or
abuse -- many of whom go on to commit violent crimes themselves. The President's
bill will make it easier for federal prosecutors to charge child abusers who kill with
felony murder, and provide tougher penalties for adults who commit violent crimes in
front of children.
Continuing the fight against domestic violence. The historic Violence Against
Women Act (VAWA) helped to strengthen law enforcement's response to violent crime
committed against women. It helped promoted comprehensive law enforcement
strategies, encouraged pro-arrest polices for domestic violence crimes, and provided
emergency shelter to women and children fleeing abusive situations. The President's bill
extends these successful program and also:
- Targets the illegal trafficking of women and children by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to bring trafficking cases, and increasing penalties for
persons who transport women and children to the United States and coerce them
to work in sweatshops and other forced labor.
- Protects battered immigrant women and children by enabling them to file
their own petitions for lawful status, without having to rely on abusive spouses.
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COMBATING TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists. Biological weapons pose
a serious threat to the United States, particularly in the hands of terrorists or disaffected
groups. The President's bill will help keep dangerous biological agents and toxins out of
the wrong hands by:
- Barring unauthorized possession and transfer of harmful biological agents;
- Holding accountable persons who knowingly disregard public health and
safety when handling deadly toxins;
- Making it a crime to perpetrate a hoax involving biological agents; and
- Prohibiting violent felons and fugitives from possessing dangerous
biologicals agents.
Implementing the President's International Crime Control Strategy. The
President's bill includes key provisions from The International Crime Control Act he
introduce last year, including measures to:
- Create a new federal criminal penalty for port-running, an evasion tactic
employed by contraband smugglers to pass through ports without stopping --
putting law enforcement and civilians at great risk;
- Strengthen our ability to intercept drug smuggling vessels by making it a
criminal offense for failing to "heave to" a vessel at the direction of a Coast Guard
or other federal law enforcement official seeking to board that vessel;
- Protect Americans abroad by strengthening our authority to investigate and
prosecute organized crime groups who commit crimes against Americans abroad;
- Respond to emerging international crime problems by enhancing
enforcement tools to combat international arms trafficking, and requiring
additional "end-use" verification of certain precursor chemicals used to
manufacture illegal drugs; and
- Deny safe haven for international fugitives by excluding drug traffickers, their
immediate family members, and others who attempt to enter the United States to
avoid prosecution in another country.
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The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
May 12, 1999
Today, President Clinton will announce that his COPS program has achieved an important milestone
by helping communities to fund the hiring or redeployment of 100,000 police officers across the
nation. Additionally, he will propose new legislation -- The 21st Century Law Enforcement and
Public Safety Act -- that builds on the successful 1994 Crime Act, which has helped to cut the
crime rate dramatically across the nation. This new legislation will renew the Justice Department's
COPS program and include new provisions to reduce juvenile and drug crime, protect crime victims,
and combat international crime and terrorism.
Helping fund 100,000 community-oriented police. President Clinton will announce grants
of more than $95 million for 526 communities to hire approximately 1,500 new police officers.
With these new grants, the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) office will have
provided 11,300 cities with $5.9 billion to help hire and redeploy more than 100,000 police
officers across the country -- fulfilling the President's 1992 pledge to do so. More than half of
these officers are already patrolling America's streets.
Building on what works. The President also will propose new legislation -- The 21st Law
Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- that builds on the successful programs enacted as part of
the 1994 Crime Act. The President's new legislation will:
(1) Keep our commitment to law enforcement by renewing the COPS program and providing
funds to hire or redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more police, giving police the high-tech
tools they need to do their job, and hiring more local prosecutors to target local crime problems.
(2) Punish and prevent youth crime and violence by giving prosecutors new tools to punish
the most violent juveniles and curb witness intimidation by gang members; promoting swift and
certain punishment for all juvenile offenders; and working to prevent at-risk youth from
committing serious crimes in the first place.
(3) Break the cycle of drugs and crime by expanding drug courts, helping states and localities
implement "zero tolerance" drug supervision programs that test, treat, and punish all drug
offenders, and putting into place tough provisions on money laundering to help staunch the
flow of illegal drug profits.
(4) Protect all crime victims by enhancing penalties for child abusers who kill and adults who
commit violent crimes in the presence of a child; providing new authorities for federal law
enforcement to protect older Americans from illegal telemarketing, nursing home neglect and
abuse, retirement rip-offs, and health care fraud; and by keeping up the fight against domestic
violence.
(5) Combat international crime and terrorism by prohibiting certain possession and unsafe
handling of biological agents and toxins, and making it more difficult for these agents to fall
into the hands of terrorists.
KEEPING OUR COMMITMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
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Renewing the COPS program. The President's 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act extends the COPS program and proposes spending $1.3 billion annually to help
communities continue to hire, redeploy, and retain police officers. It also will give law
enforcement officers access to the latest crime-fighting technologies, and target funds to engage
the entire community in the fight against crime. Specifically, the bill will provide:
- $600 million for more police on the street. These funds would be used primarily to
hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more law enforcement officers over five
years, with an effort to target new police officers to crime "hot spots." A portion of the
funds also would be used to help economically-distressed communities absorb the
long-term costs of their new police hires, and to fund programs to train, educate, and
recruit police officers -- including efforts to train police officers in ethics and integrity
and to promote minority recruitment.
- $350 million for crime-fighting technologies. These funds would be used to help
state and local enforcement agencies gain access to new technologies that will allow
them to communicate more effectively, solve more crimes, and conduct comprehensive
crime analysis. For instance, these funds could be used to: use computers and wireless
communications to send data and images from a police department in one jurisdiction to
a patrol car in the next; improve the state of the nation's overburdened and underfunded
crime labs and make high-end laboratory technologies -- such as DNA analysis -- more
widely available; and expand the use of crime mapping and other technologies that
improve law enforcement's ability to analyze, predict, and respond to local crime trends
and problems.
- $200 million for community prosecutors and neighborhood district attorneys.
As police and community residents have joined forces to fight crime on a proactive
basis, communities also have turned to local prosecutors to play a more active role in
community crime-fighting efforts. These funds will help communities hire more
prosecutors to target neighborhood crime problems.
- $125 million for community-wide crime prevention. The President's new
legislation specifically provides funds to engage the entire community in preventing and
fighting crime. These funds could be used to: work with local school officials in
adopting community-wide plans to prevent school violence; involve faith-based and
other values-based organizations in juvenile crime prevention efforts; and establish
citizens' police academies that teach neighborhood residents problem-solving skills.
Supporting Law Enforcement. The President's new crime legislation also will extend
federal grants to help police departments purchase bullet-proof vests for their police officers
and allow communities to use a portion of COPS funds to help current police officers pay for a
college education or graduate school.
PUNISHING AND PREVENTING YOUTH CRIME AND VIOLENCE
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Cracking down on gangs and violent youth. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act incorporates key provisions of the Anti-Gang and Youth Violence Strategy
announced by the President in 1997. It provides new tools to help federal prosecutors go after
gang criminals and violent youth. Specifically, the bill will:
-- Give prosecutors the discretion to decide whether to try the most serious violent
juveniles as adults, allowing prosecutors to treat appropriately the older and more
serious offenders who may not be adequately punished in the juvenile justice system;
-- Expand law enforcement access to federal juvenile records by requiring that
federal juvenile records involving gun offenses or other adult-type felonies be sent to
the FBI and made available to all law enforcement officers in the same manner as adult
records;
-- Make it easier to prosecute gang members and other violent criminals who
attempt to intimidate or retaliate against witnesses; and
-- Authorize judges to hold gang members without bail pending trial if there is
probable cause to believe they have been involved in criminal activity.
Provide swift, certain, and proportionate punishments for juvenile offenders. The
President's legislation also authorizes new funds for states and localities to ensure swift,
certain, and proportionate punishments whenever juvenile offenders violate the law -- sending
the message that there are clear and certain consequences for breaking the rules. These grants
could be used to fund:
- Graduated sanctions that hold youthful offenders accountable for every offense, and
that escalate in intensity for repeat offenses;
- Teen courts or peer juries to promote zero-tolerance policies for misdemeanor
offenses such as truancy, vandalism, and underage alcohol and tobacco use; and
- Restitution or victim mediation, which requires young offenders and their family
members to meet face-to-face with the victims of their crimes and agree upon
appropriate reparations, including restitution or community service.
Prevent serious juvenile crime in the first place. The President's bill authorizes $95 million
for comprehensive community-based prevention to target at-risk youth, including:
- Mentoring and after school programs to provide positive role models and
responsible adult supervision for young people; and
- Anti-truancy initiatives to keep kids in school and off the streets, where they are
more likely to become victims or perpetrators of crime.
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DRUGS AND CRIME
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Enforcing "zero tolerance" drug supervision. In 1997, more than three-quarters of the
nation's prisoners reported past drug use, and one in six committed their crimes so they could
purchase drugs. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act addresses this
problem by establishing a new $100 million initiative to help states and localities systematically
test, treat, and sanction drug-involved probationers, prisoners, and parolees. The bill also
reauthorizes the successful drug court initiative established in the 1994 Crime Act, and extends
funding to provide intensive, long-term drug treatment to state prisoners with serious drug
problems.
Enhancing drug penalties and enforcement. The President's bill contains targeted penalty
increases for using kids to sell drugs and selling drugs on or near school property. It also grants
the Attorney General emergency authority to temporarily reschedule certain controlled
substances, on a temporary basis.
Helping states fight drugs and crime. The President's bill extends the Violent Offender
Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) prison grant program, while giving states
additional flexibility to free up additional prison beds by seeking authorization to use up to 25
percent of previously awarded grant funds to implement graduated sanctions programs for
non-violent offenders. Graduated sanction programs hold offenders accountable for every
offense they commit, while escalating in intensity with repeat offenses. The bill also
reauthorizes the Byrne block grant program, which funds statewide anti-drug plans and
multi-jurisdictional drug enforcement task forces.
Cracking down on drug money laundering. Money laundering is a global problem, often
involving international financial institutions and the smuggling of currency across borders. To
continue the Administration's fight against international money laundering and drug crime, the
President's bill will:
-- Help stop the flow of cash drug proceeds by making it a federal crime to smuggle
"bulk cash" (more than $10,000 in currency) out of the United States, and by cracking
down on money transmitters who knowingly accept criminal proceeds from abroad or
who fail to report large cash transactions;
-- Hold foreign banks that violate our laws accountable by allowing federal courts to
exercise jurisdiction over them;
-- Thwart black market transactions by requiring persons who use drug proceeds to
prove they didn't know the money came from unlawful activity; and
-- Seize more illegal drug profits by doing more to confiscate the assets of criminals
and encouraging more cooperation from foreign governments.
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PROTECTING ALL CRIME VICTIMS
Establishing a new safety net for seniors. Falling violent and property crime rates mean our
nation's seniors are safer, but these citizens remain threatened by telemarketing scams,
retirement rip-offs, and abuse and neglect by caretakers. To help protect seniors from these
crimes and punish the criminals who prey on elderly Americans, the President's bill will:
- Shut down fraudulent telemarketers by granting the Attorney General new authority
to block and terminate telephone service to illegal telemarketers;
- Protect nursing home residents from abuse and neglect by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to halt and punish nursing home operators who repeatedly abuse
and neglect the residents in their care;
- Fight health care fraud and abuse by making it easier for the Justice Department to
prosecute and punish illegal kickback schemes -- and harder for criminals to stick
Medicare with the bills by declaring bankruptcy; and
- Safeguard retirement and pension plans by making it a federal crime to defraud
employee pension benefit or retirement funds and increasing penalties for retirement
plan managers who take bribes.
Protecting children exposed to violence. Each year millions of children and adolescents are
victims of violent crime, and millions more witness serious violence or abuse. These children
are more likely to go on to commit violent crimes themselves. The President's bill will make
it easier for federal prosecutors to charge child abusers who kill with first degree murder, and to
bolster the prosecution of adults who commit violent crimes in front of children.
Continuing the fight against domestic violence. The historic Violence Against Women Act
(VAWA) helped to strengthen law enforcement's response to violent crime committed against
women. It helped promote comprehensive law enforcement strategies, encouraged pro-arrest
policies for domestic violence crimes, and provided emergency shelter to women and children
fleeing abusive situations. The President's bill extends these successful programs and also:
- Targets the illegal trafficking of women and children by giving federal prosecutors
new tools to bring trafficking cases and increasing penalties for persons who transport
women and children to the United States and coerce them to work in sweatshops and
other forced labor; and
- Protects battered immigrant women and children by enabling them to file their
own petitions for lawful status, without having to rely on abusive spouses.
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COMBATING TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists. Biological weapons pose a
serious threat to the United States, particularly in the hands of terrorists or disaffected groups.
The President's bill will help keep dangerous biological agents and toxins out of the wrong
hands by:
- Barring unauthorized possession and transfer of harmful biological agents;
- Holding accountable persons who knowingly disregard public health and safety
when handling deadly toxins;
- Making it a crime to perpetrate a hoax involving biological agents; and
- Prohibiting violent felons and fugitives from possessing dangerous biological
agents.
Implementing the President's International Crime Control Strategy. The President's bill
includes key provisions from the International Crime Control Act he introduced last year,
including measures to:
- Create a new federal criminal penalty for port-running, an evasion tactic
employed by contraband smugglers to pass through ports without stopping -- putting
law enforcement and civilians at great risk;
- Strengthen our ability to intercept drug smuggling vessels by making it a criminal
offense for failing to "heave to" a vessel at the direction of a Coast Guard or other
federal law enforcement official seeking to board that vessel;
- Protect Americans abroad by strengthening our authority to investigate and
prosecute organized crime groups who commit crimes against Americans abroad;
- Respond to emerging international crime problems by enhancing enforcement tools
to combat international arms trafficking and requiring additional "end-use" verification
of certain precursor chemicals used to manufacture illegal drugs; and
- Deny safe haven for international fugitives by excluding drug traffickers who
attempt to enter the United States to avoid prosecution in another country.
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RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 13:46:06.00
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call me if u can. jose
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Just got back to my office will review now jc3
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CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 18:13:05.00
SUBJECT: whole new beginning
TO: Bruce N. Reed ( CN=Bruce N. Reed/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD )
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
This isn't II of it...jc3
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/11/99
06:14 PM
Jordan Tamagni
05/11/99 06:11:03 PM
Record Type: Record
To: Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
cc:
Subject: whole new beginning
Draft 5/11/99 6:30pm
Tamagni
PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
REMARKS FOR 21ST CENTURY CRIME BILL EVENT
THE ROSE GARDEN
May 12, 1999
Good afternoon. I want to begin by welcoming everyone here today to the
White House. I am pleased to be joined by Officer [TK], from the
Wilmington Police Department in Delaware -- and by so many representatives
of our nation,s police forces and law enforcement organizations. They
call you the thin blue line. Because of the dedication and courage each
of you shows every day, that line is broader and stronger than ever.
I am also pleased to be joined by Attorney General Reno, and by Senator
Leahy, Congressman Conyers, and Congressman Stupak, all of whom will have
a chance to tell you about our united effort to fight crime on every
front. And I am very glad to see Mayor Ed Rendell, and so many of our
nation,s mayors and county executives.
In a few moments, I will announce new legislation -- my 21st Century
Crime Bill -- that will help us build on the remarkable progress we have
made together over the past six years to build a stronger, safer America
for all of our families.
But first, I want to take a few moments to talk about the journey that
has brought us all here today -- a journey that began more than six years
ago. Joe Biden used to tell a story about how, before I was even sworn in
as President, I would wake him up at night to talk about the crime bill.
I don,t think he minded much, because he knew that when it came to
fighting crime, we all needed a wake-up call.
I want you to think for a minute about the challenge we were facing in
1993, not only in terms of rising crime and violence which had ravaged
too many of our communities and left too many of our families living in
fear -- but in terms of people,s resignation to the problem. From public
officials to private citizens, too many Americans had begun to believe
that crime was uncontrollable; that our social fabric could not be mended;
that we could not restore sanity, safety, and civility to our streets.
But around the country, a grassroots movement was growing to take our
country back from crime, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block,
street by street. In police precincts, in community centers, in houses
of worship, people were beginning to understand that if we were ever going
to win the war against crime, we had to fundamentally change our
approach.
Here in Washington, we began to listen -- and we took action. Five years
ago this summer, thanks to the remarkable efforts of many members of
Congress, I signed into law a Crime Bill that was the first of its kind.
A comprehensive crime bill that funded local solutions to local problems
that embraced the new and promising practice of community policing
that was turning around some of our nation,s worst neighborhoods
that
boldly took on the gun lobby, banning assault weapons and demanding
waiting periods and background checks for handgun purposes
that
demanded tougher punishments for the toughest criminals. Above all, a
crime bill that brought our laws back in line with our oldest values
requiring all of us to take responsibility, at every level of government,
in every community in America, to prevent crime and protect our families.
Five years later, we know our strategy was the right one -- and its
success has been nothing short of remarkable. The murder rate is down to
its lowest level in 30 years. Violent crime has dropped by 20% in the
last six years alone. The overall crime rate is at a 25 year low and
just this morning, the FBI announced that crime is down for the seventh
year in a row, nationwide. And in many smaller ways -- reducing crimes
like vandalism and littering that undermine our quality of life -- we are
repairing our social fabric and restoring civility to our everyday
lives.
There are many reasons for our success. Certainly, one of the biggest
factors has been the Brady Bill, which has prevented the sale of over
250,000 handguns to felons and fugitives. The assault weapons ban
helped. So have tougher penalties and the gradual lessening of the crack
epidemic.
But police chiefs, politicians, and people on the street will tell you
that the single most important factor in our progress has been community
policing. Where police officers used to cruise anonymously through the
streets, community police officers walk the beat. They become involved in
the lives of the people they protect -- and involve those people in the
fight against crime.
Community policing has worked virtual miracles in places like Boston,
Chicago, and New Orleans, where violent crime was out of control and law
abiding citizens mistrusted police as much as they feared drug gangs. In
cities like these, neighbors now work together with police, forming
neighborhood watches, banding together against drug dealers, and building
the connections that are the core of community life and at the heart of
civil society.
When I signed the Crime Bill, I pledged to help communities around the
country fund 100,000 community police officers by the year 2000 -- and
today, we are finishing the job.
Since 1994, our COPS program has funded 99,000 new police officers -- and
half are already on the beat. Today, I am pleased to announce the latest
COPS grants -- over $96 million to more than 500 communities -- that bring
us to over 100,000 community police officers funded, ahead of schedule and
under budget.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 18:13:35.00
SUBJECT: Re: bad news
TO: Barry J. Toiv ( CN=Barry J. Toiv/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [WHO])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
call them...said he'd call me right back after going out to the
motorcade...jc3
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 20:20:35.00
SUBJECT: 100,000 speech
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/11/99
08:21 PM
Bruce N. Reed
05/11/99 06:50:39 PM
Record Type: Record
To:
Jordan Tamagni/WHO/EOP
cc:
Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
Subject:
100,000 speech
This is good. I would turn your thin blue line thought into a soundbite,
and move it lower into the speech. You could insert it right after the
graph about going over 100,000 -- something like:
"The results are in: More police and fewer guns equals less crime. By
funding 100,000 community police, we have made the thin blue line thicker,
and America is safer as a result."
Forwarded by Bruce N. Reed/OPD/EOP on 05/11/99
06:33 PM
Jose Cerda III
05/11/99 06:12:59 PM
Record Type: Record
To:
Bruce N. Reed/OPD/EOP
cc:
Subject:
whole new beginning
This isn't Il of it...jc3
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/11/99
06:14 PM
Jordan Tamagni
05/11/99 06:11:03 PM
Record Type: Record
To: Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
cc:
Subject: whole new beginning
Draft 5/11/99 6:30pm
Tamagni
PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
REMARKS FOR 21ST CENTURY CRIME BILL EVENT
THE ROSE GARDEN
May 12, 1999
Good afternoon. I want to begin by welcoming everyone here today to the
White House. I am pleased to be joined by Officer [TK], from the
Wilmington Police Department in Delaware -- and by so many representatives
of our nation,s police forces and law enforcement organizations. They
call you the thin blue line. Because of the dedication and courage each
of you shows every day, that line is broader and stronger than ever.
I am also pleased to be joined by Attorney General Reno, and by Senator
Leahy, Congressman Conyers, and Congressman Stupak, all of whom will have
a chance to tell you about our united effort to fight crime on every
front. And I am very glad to see Mayor Ed Rendell, and so many of our
nation,s mayors and county executives.
In a few moments, I will announce new legislation -- my 21st Century
Crime Bill that will help us build on the remarkable progress we have
made together over the past six years to build a stronger, safer America
for all of our families.
But first, I want to take a few moments to talk about the journey that
has brought us all here today -- a journey that began more than six years
ago. Joe Biden used to tell a story about how, before I was even sworn in
as President, I would wake him up at night to talk about the crime bill.
I don,t think he minded much, because he knew that when it came to
fighting crime, we all needed a wake-up call.
I want you to think for a minute about the challenge we were facing in
1993, not only in terms of rising crime and violence which had ravaged
too many of our communities and left too many of our families living in
fear but in terms of people,s resignation to the problem. From public
officials to private citizens, too many Americans had begun to believe
that crime was uncontrollable; that our social fabric could not be mended;
that we could not restore sanity, safety, and civility to our streets.
But around the country, a grassroots movement was growing to take our
country back from crime, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block,
street by street. In police precincts, in community centers, in houses
of worship, people were beginning to understand that if we were ever going
to win the war against crime, we had to fundamentally change our
approach.
Here in Washington, we began to listen -- and we took action. Five years
ago this summer, thanks to the remarkable efforts of many members of
Congress, I signed into law a Crime Bill that was the first of its kind.
A comprehensive crime bill that funded local solutions to local problems
that embraced the new and promising practice of community policing
that was turning around some of our nation,s worst neighborhoods that
boldly took on the gun lobby, banning assault weapons and demanding
waiting periods and background checks for handgun purposes that
demanded tougher punishments for the toughest criminals. Above all, a
crime bill that brought our laws back in line with our oldest values
requiring all of us to take responsibility, at every level of government,
in every community in America, to prevent crime and protect our families.
Five years later, we know our strategy was the right one and its
success has been nothing short of remarkable. The murder rate is down to
its lowest level in 30 years. Violent crime has dropped by 20% in the
last six years alone. The overall crime rate is at a 25 year low and
just this morning, the FBI announced that crime is down for the seventh
year in a row, nationwide. And in many smaller ways -- reducing crimes
like vandalism and littering that undermine our quality of life we are
repairing our social fabric and restoring civility to our everyday
lives.
There are many reasons for our success. Certainly, one of the biggest
factors has been the Brady Bill, which has prevented the sale of over
250,000 handguns to felons and fugitives. The assault weapons ban
helped. So have tougher penalties and the gradual lessening of the crack
epidemic.
But police chiefs, politicians, and people on the street will tell you
that the single most important factor in our progress has been community
policing. Where police officers used to cruise anonymously through the
streets, community police officers walk the beat. They become involved in
the lives of the people they protect and involve those people in the
fight against crime.
Community policing has worked virtual miracles in places like Boston,
Chicago, and New Orleans, where violent crime was out of control and law
abiding citizens mistrusted police as much as they feared drug gangs. In
cities like these, neighbors now work together with police, forming
neighborhood watches, banding together against drug dealers, and building
the connections that are the core of community life and at the heart of
civil society.
When I signed the Crime Bill, I pledged to help communities around the
country fund 100,000 community police officers by the year 2000 -- and
today, we are finishing the job.
Since 1994, our COPS program has funded 99,000 new police officers and
half are already on the beat. Today, I am pleased to announce the latest
COPS grants -- over $96 million to more than 500 communities that bring
us to over 100,000 community police officers funded, ahead of schedule and
under budget.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 16:56:19.00
SUBJECT: Re: would you be willing to do a specialty press conf. call at 2:30 pm tomorrow? bb
TO: Beverly J. Barnes ( CN=Beverly J. Barnes/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
sure
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:11-MAY-1999 19:21:53.00
SUBJECT: this should fit
TO: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
e-mail me paper as soon as you have it...I have a reporter on hold...jc3
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/11/99
07:22 PM
Leanne A. Shimabukuro
05/11/99 07:15:45 PM
Record Type: Record
To:
Laura Emmett/WHO/EOP
cc:
Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
Subject:
this should fit
Prevent serious juvenile crime in the first place. The President,s bill
authorizes $95 million for comprehensive community-based prevention to
target at-risk youth, including:
- Mentoring and after school programs to provide positive role models and
responsible adult supervision for young people; and
- Anti-truancy initiatives to keep kids in school, and off the streets --
where they are more likely to become victims or perpetrators of crime.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:12-MAY-1999 14:10:02.00
SUBJECT: profiling
TO: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO )
READ:UNKNOWN
CC: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Laura:
Time to do this meeting remember to schedule Edley early next week
would be good.
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/12/99
02:09 PM
Todd Stern
05/12/99 12:23:57 PM
Record Type: Record
To: Bruce N. Reed/OPD/EOP, Elena Kagan/OPD/EOP, Jose Cerda
III/OPD/EOP
cc: Maria Echaveste/WHO/EOP
Subject:
profiling
After the terrific job Jose did in meeting with Chris yesterday on the
Crime chapter, 1 wanted to follow up on the one policy piece on crime that
is still unresolved. Until the profiling issue is settled, we won't be
able to get this chapter put to bed. So I'm playing the role of pest here
to urge you guys to schedule the meeting you're planning to have, figure
out what kind of memo needs to move forward to the President, and then get
it there. If I can be helpful in any way, please let me know. And if you
could let me know when you do schedule the meeting, I'd appreciate it.
Many thanks. tds
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:12-MAY-1999 10:51:18.00
SUBJECT: Re: Fact Sheet: The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
TO: Richard Socarides ( CN=Richard Socarides/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
CC: Edward W. Correia ( CN=Edward W. Correia/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Richard:
As I mentioned earlier, we didn't put hate crimes in the paper -- along
w/a few other things (i.e., .08 BAC standard) -- that are still candidates
for the final bill...jc3
Richard Socarides 05/12/99 10:43:50 AM
Record Type: Record
To:
Edward W. Correia/WHO/EOP, Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
cc:
Subject:
Fact Sheet: The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act
No hate crimes?/
Forwarded by Richard Socarides/WHO/EOP on 05/12/99
10:43 AM
Jason H. Schechter
05/12/99 10:34:38 AM
Record Type: Record
To:
See the distribution list at the bottom of this message
cc:
Subject:
Fact Sheet: The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act
The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
May 12, 1999
Today, President Clinton will announce that his Community Oriented
Policing Services (COPS) program has achieved an important milestone by
helping communities to fund the hiring or redeployment of 100,000 police
officers across the nation. Additionally, he will propose new legislation
-- The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- that builds
on the successful 1994 Crime Act, which has helped to cut the crime rate
dramatically across the nation. This new legislation renews the Justice
Department,s COPS program and includes new provisions to reduce juvenile
and drug crime, protect crime victims, and combat international crime and
terrorism.
Helping fund 100,000 community-oriented police. President
Clinton will announce grants of more than $95 million for 526 communities
to hire approximately 1,500 new police officers. With these new grants,
the COPS office will have provided 11,300 cities with $5.9 billion to help
hire and redeploy more than 100,000 police officers across the country --
fulfilling the President,s 1992 pledge to do so. More than half of these
officers are already patrolling America,s streets.
Building on what works, The President also will propose new
legislation -- The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act --
that builds on the successful programs enacted as part of the 1994 Crime
Act. The President,s new legislation would:
(1) Maintain our commitment to law enforcement by renewing the COPS
program and providing funds to hire or redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000
more police, giving police the high-tech tools they need to do their job,
and hiring more local prosecutors to target local crime problems.
(2) Punish and prevent youth crime and violence by giving prosecutors new
tools to punish the most violent juveniles and curb witness intimidation
by gang members, promoting swift and certain punishment for all juvenile
offenders, and working to prevent at-risk youth from committing serious
crimes in the first place.
(3) Break the cycle of drugs and crime by expanding drug courts, helping
states and localities implement "zero tolerance" drug supervision programs
that test, treat, and punish all drug offenders, and putting into place
tough provisions on money laundering to help staunch the flow of illegal
drug profits.
(4) Protect all crime victims by enhancing penalties for child abusers who
kill and adults who commit violent crimes in the presence of a child; by
providing new authorities for federal law enforcement to protect older
Americans from illegal telemarketing, nursing home neglect and abuse,
retirement rip-offs, and health care fraud; and by keeping up the fight
against domestic violence.
(5) Combat international crime and terrorism by prohibiting certain
possession and unsafe handling of biological agents and toxins, and making
it more difficult for these agents to fall into the hands of terrorists.
KEEPING OUR COMMITMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Renewing the COPS program. The President,s 21st Century Law
Enforcement and Public Safety Act extends the COPS program and proposes
spending $1.3 billion annually to help communities continue to hire,
redeploy, and retain police officers. It would also give law enforcement
officers access to the latest crime-fighting technologies and target funds
to engage the entire community in the fight against crime. Specifically,
the bill provides:
- $600 million for more police on the street. These funds would be used
primarily to hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more law
enforcement officers over five years, with an effort to target new police
officers to crime "hot spots." A portion of the funds also would be used
to help economically distressed communities absorb the long-term costs of
their new police hires and to fund programs to train, educate, and recruit
police officers -- including efforts to train police officers in ethics
and integrity and to promote minority recruitment.
- $350 million for crime-fighting technologies. These funds would be used
to help state and local enforcement agencies gain access to new
technologies that will allow them to communicate more effectively, solve
more crimes, and conduct comprehensive crime analysis. For instance,
these funds could be used to: use computers and wireless communications to
send data and images from a police department in one jurisdiction to a
patrol car in the next; improve the state of the nation,s overburdened and
underfunded crime labs and make high-end laboratory technologies -- such
as DNA analysis -- more widely available; and expand the use of crime
mapping and other technologies that improve law enforcement,s ability to
analyze, predict, and respond to local crime trends and problems.
- $200 million for community prosecutors and neighborhood district
attorneys. As police and community residents have joined forces to fight
crime on a proactive basis, communities also have turned to local
prosecutors to play a more active role in community crime-fighting
efforts. These funds would help communities hire more prosecutors to
target neighborhood crime problems.
- $125 million for community-wide crime prevention. The President,s new
legislation specifically provides funds to engage the entire community in
preventing and fighting crime. These funds could be used to: work with
local school officials in adopting community-wide plans to prevent school
violence; involve faith-based and other values-based organizations in
juvenile crime prevention efforts; and establish citizens, police
academies that teach neighborhood residents problem-solving skills.
Supporting Law Enforcement. The President,s new crime
legislation would also extend federal grants to help police departments
purchase bullet-proof vests for their police officers and allow
communities to use a portion of COPS funds to help current police officers
pay for a college education or graduate school.
PUNISHING AND PREVENTING YOUTH CRIME AND VIOLENCE
Cracking down on gangs and violent youth. The 21st Century Law
Enforcement and Public Safety Act incorporates key provisions of the
Anti-Gang and Youth Violence Strategy announced by the President in 1997.
It provides new tools to help federal prosecutors go after gang criminals
and violent youth. Specifically, the bill will:
-- Give prosecutors the discretion to decide whether to try the most
serious violent juveniles as adults, allowing prosecutors to treat
appropriately the older and more serious offenders who may not be
adequately punished in the juvenile justice system;
-- Expand law enforcement access to federal juvenile records by requiring
that federal juvenile records involving gun offenses or other adult-type
felonies be sent to the FBI and made available to all law enforcement
officers in the same manner as adult records;
-- Make it easier to prosecute gang members and other violent criminals
who attempt to intimidate or retaliate against witnesses; and
-- Authorize judges to hold gang members without bail pending trial if
there is probable cause to believe they have been involved in criminal
activity.
Provide swift, certain, and proportionate punishments for
juvenile offenders. The President,s legislation also authorizes new funds
for states and localities to ensure swift, certain, and proportionate
punishments whenever juvenile offenders violate the law -- sending the
message that there are clear and certain consequences for breaking the
rules. These grants could be used to fund:
- Graduated sanctions that hold youthful offenders accountable for every
offense, and that escalate in intensity for repeat offenses;
- Teen courts or peer juries to promote zero-tolerance policies for
misdemeanor offenses such as truancy, vandalism, and underage alcohol and
tobacco use; and
- Restitution or victim mediation, which requires young offenders and
their family members to meet face-to-face with the victims of their crimes
and agree upon appropriate reparations, including restitution or community
service.
Prevent serious juvenile crime in the first place. The President,
S bill authorizes $95 million for comprehensive community-based prevention
to target at-risk youth, including:
- Mentoring and after school programs to provide positive role models and
responsible adult supervision for young people; and
- Anti-truancy initiatives to keep kids in school and off the streets,
where they are more likely to become victims or perpetrators of crime.
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DRUGS AND CRIME
Enforcing "zero tolerance" drug supervision. In 1997, more than
three-quarters of the nation,s prisoners reported past drug use, and one
in six committed their crimes so they could purchase drugs. The 21st
Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act addresses this problem by
establishing a new $100 million initiative to help states and localities
systematically test, treat, and sanction drug-involved probationers,
prisoners, and parolees. The bill also reauthorizes the successful drug
court initiative established by the 1994 Crime Act and extends funding to
provide intensive, long-term drug treatment to state prisoners with
serious drug problems.
Enhancing drug penalties and enforcement. The President,s bill
contains targeted penalty increases for using kids to sell drugs and
selling drugs on or near school property. It also grants the Attorney
General emergency authority to reschedule certain controlled substances on
a temporary basis.
Helping states fight drugs and crime. The President,s bill
extends the Violent Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing prison
grant program, while giving states additional flexibility to free up
additional prison beds by seeking authorization to use up to 25 percent of
previously awarded grant funds to implement graduated sanctions programs
for non-violent offenders. Graduated sanction programs hold offenders
accountable for every offense they commit, while escalating in intensity
with repeat offenses. The bill also reauthorizes the Byrne block grant
program, which funds statewide anti-drug plans and multi-jurisdictional
drug enforcement task forces.
Cracking down on drug money laundering. Money laundering is a
global problem, often involving international financial institutions and
the smuggling of currency across borders. To continue the Administration,
S fight against international money laundering and drug crime, the
President,s bill would:
-- Help stop the flow of cash drug proceeds by making it a federal crime
to smuggle "bulk cash" (more than $10,000 in currency) out of the United
States and by cracking down on money transmitters who knowingly accept
criminal proceeds from abroad or who fail to report large cash
transactions;
-- Hold foreign banks that violate our laws accountable by allowing
federal courts to exercise jurisdiction over them;
-- Thwart black market transactions by requiring persons who use drug
proceeds to prove they did not know the money came from unlawful activity;
and
-- Seize more illegal drug profits by doing more to confiscate the assets
of criminals and encouraging more cooperation from foreign governments.
PROTECTING ALL CRIME VICTIMS
Establishing a new safety net for seniors. Falling violent and
property crime rates mean our nation,s seniors are safer, but these
citizens remain threatened by telemarketing scams, retirement rip-offs,
and abuse and neglect by caretakers. To help protect seniors from these
crimes and punish the criminals who prey on elderly Americans, the
President,s bill would:
- Shut down fraudulent telemarketers by granting the Attorney General new
authority to block and terminate telephone service to illegal
telemarketers;
- Protect nursing home residents from abuse and neglect by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to halt and punish nursing home operators who
repeatedly abuse and neglect the residents in their care;
- Fight health care fraud and abuse by making it easier for the Justice
Department to prosecute and punish illegal kickback schemes -- and harder
for criminals to stick Medicare with the bills by declaring bankruptcy;
and
- Safeguard retirement and pension plans by making it a federal crime to
defraud employee pension benefit or retirement funds and increasing
penalties for retirement plan managers who take bribes.
Protecting children exposed to violence. Each year millions of
children and adolescents are victims of violent crime, and millions more
witness serious violence or abuse. These children are more likely to go on
to commit violent crimes themselves. The President,s bill would make it
easier for federal prosecutors to charge child abusers who kill with first
degree murder and to bolster the prosecution of adults who commit violent
crimes in front of children.
Continuing the fight against domestic violence. The historic
Violence Against Women Act helped to strengthen law enforcement,s response
to violent crime committed against women. It helped promote comprehensive
law enforcement strategies, encouraged pro-arrest policies for domestic
violence crimes, and provided emergency shelter to women and children
fleeing abusive situations. The President,s bill extends these successful
programs and also:
- Targets the illegal trafficking of women and children by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to bring trafficking cases and increasing penalties
for persons who transport women and children to the United States and
coerce them to work in sweatshops and other forced labor; and
- Protects battered immigrant women and children by enabling them to file
their own petitions for lawful status, without having to rely on abusive
spouses.
COMBATING TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists.
Biological weapons pose a serious threat to the United States,
particularly in the hands of terrorists or disaffected groups. The
President,s bill would help keep dangerous biological agents and toxins
out of the wrong hands by:
- Barring unauthorized possession and transfer of harmful biological
agents;
- Holding accountable persons who knowingly disregard public health and
safety when handling deadly toxins;
- Making it a crime to perpetrate a hoax involving biological agents; and
- Prohibiting violent felons and fugitives from possessing
dangerous biological agents.
Implementing the President,s International Crime Control
Strategy. The President,s bill includes key provisions from the
International Crime Control Act he introduced last year, including
measures to:
- Create a new federal criminal penalty for port-running, an evasion
tactic employed by contraband smugglers passing through ports without
stopping - that puts law enforcement and civilians at great risk;
- Strengthen our ability to intercept drug smuggling vessels by making it
a criminal offense for failing to "heave to" a vessel at the direction of
a Coast Guard or other federal law enforcement official seeking to board
that vessel;
- Protect Americans abroad by strengthening our authority to investigate
and prosecute organized crime groups who commit crimes against Americans
abroad;
- Respond to emerging international crime problems by enhancing
enforcement tools to combat international arms trafficking and requiring
additional "end-use" verification of certain precursor chemicals used to
manufacture illegal drugs; and
- Deny safe haven for international fugitives by excluding drug
traffickers who attempt to enter the United States to avoid prosecution in
another country.
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The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act
May 12, 1999
Today, President Clinton will announce that his Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
program has achieved an important milestone by helping communities to fund the hiring or
redeployment of 100,000 police officers across the nation. Additionally, he will propose new
legislation -- The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- that builds on the successful
1994 Crime Act, which has helped to cut the crime rate dramatically across the nation. This new
legislation renews the Justice Department's COPS program and includes new provisions to reduce
juvenile and drug crime, protect crime victims, and combat international crime and terrorism.
Helping fund 100,000 community-oriented police. President Clinton will announce grants of
more than $95 million for 526 communities to hire approximately 1,500 new police officers.
With these new grants, the COPS office will have provided 11,300 cities with $5.9 billion to
help hire and redeploy more than 100,000 police officers across the country -- fulfilling the
President's 1992 pledge to do so. More than half of these officers are already patrolling
America's streets.
Building on what works. The President also will propose new legislation -- The 21st Century
Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act -- that builds on the successful programs enacted as
part of the 1994 Crime Act. The President's new legislation would:
(1) Maintain our commitment to law enforcement by renewing the COPS program and
providing funds to hire or redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more police, giving police the
high-tech tools they need to do their job, and hiring more local prosecutors to target local crime
problems.
(2) Punish and prevent youth crime and violence by giving prosecutors new tools to punish
the most violent juveniles and curb witness intimidation by gang members, promoting swift and
certain punishment for all juvenile offenders, and working to prevent at-risk youth from
committing serious crimes in the first place.
(3) Break the cycle of drugs and crime by expanding drug courts, helping states and localities
implement "zero tolerance" drug supervision programs that test, treat, and punish all drug
offenders, and putting into place tough provisions on money laundering to help staunch the
flow of illegal drug profits.
(4) Protect all crime victims by enhancing penalties for child abusers who kill and adults who
commit violent crimes in the presence of a child; by providing new authorities for federal law
enforcement to protect older Americans from illegal telemarketing, nursing home neglect and
abuse, retirement rip-offs, and health care fraud; and by keeping up the fight against domestic
violence.
(5) Combat international crime and terrorism by prohibiting certain possession and unsafe
handling of biological agents and toxins, and making it more difficult for these agents to fall
into the hands of terrorists.
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KEEPING OUR COMMITMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Renewing the COPS program. The President's 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act extends the COPS program and proposes spending $1.3 billion annually to help
communities continue to hire, redeploy, and retain police officers. It would also give law
enforcement officers access to the latest crime-fighting technologies and target funds to engage
the entire community in the fight against crime. Specifically, the bill provides:
- $600 million for more police on the street. These funds would be used primarily to
hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more law enforcement officers over five
years, with an effort to target new police officers to crime "hot spots." A portion of the
funds also would be used to help economically distressed communities absorb the long-
term costs of their new police hires and to fund programs to train, educate, and recruit
police officers -- including efforts to train police officers in ethics and integrity and to
promote minority recruitment.
- $350 million for crime-fighting technologies. These funds would be used to help
state and local enforcement agencies gain access to new technologies that will allow
them to communicate more effectively, solve more crimes, and conduct comprehensive
crime analysis. For instance, these funds could be used to: use computers and wireless
communications to send data and images from a police department in one jurisdiction to
a patrol car in the next; improve the state of the nation's overburdened and underfunded
crime labs and make high-end laboratory technologies -- such as DNA analysis -- more
widely available; and expand the use of crime mapping and other technologies that
improve law enforcement's ability to analyze, predict, and respond to local crime trends
and problems.
- $200 million for community prosecutors and neighborhood district attorneys. As
police and community residents have joined forces to fight crime on a proactive basis,
communities also have turned to local prosecutors to play a more active role in
community crime-fighting efforts. These funds would help communities hire more
prosecutors to target neighborhood crime problems.
- $125 million for community-wide crime prevention. The President's new
legislation specifically provides funds to engage the entire community in preventing and
fighting crime. These funds could be used to: work with local school officials in
adopting community-wide plans to prevent school violence; involve faith-based and
other values-based organizations in juvenile crime prevention efforts; and establish
citizens' police academies that teach neighborhood residents problem-solving skills.
Supporting Law Enforcement. The President's new crime legislation would also extend
federal grants to help police departments purchase bullet-proof vests for their police officers
and allow communities to use a portion of COPS funds to help current police officers pay for a
college education or graduate school.
PUNISHING AND PREVENTING YOUTH CRIME AND VIOLENCE
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Cracking down on gangs and violent youth. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public
Safety Act incorporates key provisions of the Anti-Gang and Youth Violence Strategy
announced by the President in 1997. It provides new tools to help federal prosecutors go after
gang criminals and violent youth. Specifically, the bill will:
-- Give prosecutors the discretion to decide whether to try the most serious violent
juveniles as adults, allowing prosecutors to treat appropriately the older and more
serious offenders who may not be adequately punished in the juvenile justice system;
-- Expand law enforcement access to federal juvenile records by requiring that
federal juvenile records involving gun offenses or other adult-type felonies be sent to
the FBI and made available to all law enforcement officers in the same manner as adult
records;
-- Make it easier to prosecute gang members and other violent criminals who
attempt to intimidate or retaliate against witnesses; and
-- Authorize judges to hold gang members without bail pending trial if there is
probable cause to believe they have been involved in criminal activity.
Provide swift, certain, and proportionate punishments for juvenile offenders. The
President's legislation also authorizes new funds for states and localities to ensure swift,
certain, and proportionate punishments whenever juvenile offenders violate the law -- sending
the message that there are clear and certain consequences for breaking the rules. These grants
could be used to fund:
- Graduated sanctions that hold youthful offenders accountable for every offense, and
that escalate in intensity for repeat offenses;
- Teen courts or peer juries to promote zero-tolerance policies for misdemeanor
offenses such as truancy, vandalism, and underage alcohol and tobacco use; and
- Restitution or victim mediation, which requires young offenders and their family
members to meet face-to-face with the victims of their crimes and agree upon
appropriate reparations, including restitution or community service.
Prevent serious juvenile crime in the first place. The President's bill authorizes $95 million
for comprehensive community-based prevention to target at-risk youth, including:
- Mentoring and after school programs to provide positive role models and
responsible adult supervision for young people; and
- Anti-truancy initiatives to keep kids in school and off the streets, where they are
more likely to become victims or perpetrators of crime.
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DRUGS AND CRIME
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Enforcing "zero tolerance" drug supervision. In 1997, more than three-quarters of the
nation's prisoners reported past drug use, and one in six committed their crimes so they could
purchase drugs. The 21st Century Law Enforcement and Public Safety Act addresses this
problem by establishing a new $100 million initiative to help states and localities systematically
test, treat, and sanction drug-involved probationers, prisoners, and parolees. The bill also
reauthorizes the successful drug court initiative established by the 1994 Crime Act and extends
funding to provide intensive, long-term drug treatment to state prisoners with serious drug
problems.
Enhancing drug penalties and enforcement. The President's bill contains targeted penalty
increases for using kids to sell drugs and selling drugs on or near school property. It also grants
the Attorney General emergency authority to reschedule certain controlled substances on a
temporary basis.
Helping states fight drugs and crime. The President's bill extends the Violent Offender
Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing prison grant program, while giving states additional
flexibility to free up additional prison beds by seeking authorization to use up to 25 percent of
previously awarded grant funds to implement graduated sanctions programs for non-violent
offenders. Graduated sanction programs hold offenders accountable for every offense they
commit, while escalating in intensity with repeat offenses. The bill also reauthorizes the Byrne
block grant program, which funds statewide anti-drug plans and multi-jurisdictional drug
enforcement task forces.
Cracking down on drug money laundering. Money laundering is a global problem, often
involving international financial institutions and the smuggling of currency across borders. To
continue the Administration's fight against international money laundering and drug crime, the
President's bill would:
-- Help stop the flow of cash drug proceeds by making it a federal crime to smuggle
"bulk cash" (more than $10,000 in currency) out of the United States and by cracking
down on money transmitters who knowingly accept criminal proceeds from abroad or
who fail to report large cash transactions;
-- Hold foreign banks that violate our laws accountable by allowing federal courts to
exercise jurisdiction over them;
-- Thwart black market transactions by requiring persons who use drug proceeds to
prove they did not know the money came from unlawful activity; and
-- Seize more illegal drug profits by doing more to confiscate the assets of criminals
and encouraging more cooperation from foreign governments.
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PROTECTING ALL CRIME VICTIMS
Establishing a new safety net for seniors. Falling violent and property crime rates mean our
nation's seniors are safer, but these citizens remain threatened by telemarketing scams,
retirement rip-offs, and abuse and neglect by caretakers. To help protect seniors from these
crimes and punish the criminals who prey on elderly Americans, the President's bill would:
- Shut down fraudulent telemarketers by granting the Attorney General new authority
to block and terminate telephone service to illegal telemarketers;
- Protect nursing home residents from abuse and neglect by giving federal
prosecutors new tools to halt and punish nursing home operators who repeatedly abuse
and neglect the residents in their care;
- Fight health care fraud and abuse by making it easier for the Justice Department to
prosecute and punish illegal kickback schemes -- and harder for criminals to stick
Medicare with the bills by declaring bankruptcy; and
- Safeguard retirement and pension plans by making it a federal crime to defraud
employee pension benefit or retirement funds and increasing penalties for retirement
plan managers who take bribes.
Protecting children exposed to violence. Each year millions of children and adolescents are
victims of violent crime, and millions more witness serious violence or abuse. These children
are more likely to go on to commit violent crimes themselves. The President's bill would make
it easier for federal prosecutors to charge child abusers who kill with first degree murder and to
bolster the prosecution of adults who commit violent crimes in front of children.
Continuing the fight against domestic violence. The historic Violence Against Women Act
helped to strengthen law enforcement's response to violent crime committed against women. It
helped promote comprehensive law enforcement strategies, encouraged pro-arrest policies for
domestic violence crimes, and provided emergency shelter to women and children fleeing
abusive situations. The President's bill extends these successful programs and also:
- Targets the illegal trafficking of women and children by giving federal prosecutors
new tools to bring trafficking cases and increasing penalties for persons who transport
women and children to the United States and coerce them to work in sweatshops and
other forced labor; and
- Protects battered immigrant women and children by enabling them to file their
own petitions for lawful status, without having to rely on abusive spouses.
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COMBATING TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL CRIME
Keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists. Biological weapons pose a
serious threat to the United States, particularly in the hands of terrorists or disaffected groups.
The President's bill would help keep dangerous biological agents and toxins out of the wrong
hands by:
- Barring unauthorized possession and transfer of harmful biological agents;
- Holding accountable persons who knowingly disregard public health and safety
when handling deadly toxins;
- Making it a crime to perpetrate a hoax involving biological agents; and
- Prohibiting violent felons and fugitives from possessing dangerous biological
agents.
Implementing the President's International Crime Control Strategy. The President's bill
includes key provisions from the International Crime Control Act he introduced last year,
including measures to:
- Create a new federal criminal penalty for port-running, an evasion tactic
employed by contraband smugglers passing through ports without stopping - that puts
law enforcement and civilians at great risk;
- Strengthen our ability to intercept drug smuggling vessels by making it a criminal
offense for failing to "heave to" a vessel at the direction of a Coast Guard or other
federal law enforcement official seeking to board that vessel;
- Protect Americans abroad by strengthening our authority to investigate and
prosecute organized crime groups who commit crimes against Americans abroad;
- Respond to emerging international crime problems by enhancing enforcement tools
to combat international arms trafficking and requiring additional "end-use" verification
of certain precursor chemicals used to manufacture illegal drugs; and
- Deny safe haven for international fugitives by excluding drug traffickers who
attempt to enter the United States to avoid prosecution in another country.
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Creation Date: 1999-05-12
Subject: THE 51-47 ROLL CALL BY WHICH THE SENATE
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RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
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Statement by the President
I am deeply disappointed by the vote in the Senate today to table -- and effectively kill --
Senator Lautenberg's amendment to close the gun show loop hole. This amendment would have
extended the same Brady background checks that have stopped more than a quarter of a million
illegal handgun sales to all firearms sold at gun shows. It was a common sense proposal that
was sure to save lives and keep more guns out of the hands of criminals. It was even supported
in principle by some of our nation's major gun manufacturers. The Senate should reconsider
and reverse its vote on gun shows, and support a national policy of -- no background check, no
gun, ne exceptions.
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RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:12-MAY-1999 19:30:12.00
SUBJECT:
TO: Richard L. Siewert ( CN=Richard L. Siewert/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1)
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jake:
Again, the point to make on larger new loopholes is...not only does the
amendment not move us forward and do more to keep guns out of the hands of
criminals, it takes us back 30 years and opens the door by allowing people
to peddle guns across states lines...jc3
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Statement by the President
I am deeply disappointed by the vote in the Senate today to table -- and effectively kill -- Senator
Lautenberg's amendment to close the gun show loop hole. This amendment would have
extended the same Brady background checks that have stopped more than a quarter of a million
illegal handgun sales to all firearms sold at gun shows. It was a common sense proposal that
was sure to save lives and keep more guns out of the hands of criminals. It was even supported
in principle by some of our nation's major gun manufacturers. The Senate should reconsider
and reverse its vote on gun shows, and support a national policy of -- no background check, no
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:12-MAY-1999 16:49:25.00
SUBJECT: Re: for your call list
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
good spin, nice try...too late...jc3
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:12-MAY-1999 14:12:23.00
SUBJECT: MESSAGE MTG MOVED TO 4:15PM
TO: Neera Tanden ( CN=Neera Tanden/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1)
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Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/12/99
02:13 PM
Ann C. Hertelendy 05/12/99 01:52:15 PM
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MESSAGE MTG MOVED TO 4:15PM
Loretta's message mtg on the President's visit to Littleton, CO has been
moved to 4:15pm today. Thank-you.
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda II1/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:12-MAY-1999 16:46:34.00
SUBJECT: for your call list
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
LS:
Your punishment for screwing up my voice mail....
1. Kevin Wilson, Rep. W....?, 225-2735, seniors.
2. Dan Rossmillers, works for state senator Orson Porter, wants letter
from POTUS to convince democratic colleague to vote for safety locks
bill check w/correspondence to see if we can do this and call
jc3
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:13-MAY-1999 18:26:04.00
SUBJECT: Re: OMB
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
come here
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:13-MAY-1999 20:21:38.00
SUBJECT: Still no decision on FBI #s; expect to know tomorrow morning...jc3
TO: Jennifer M. Palmieri ( CN=Jennifer M. Palmieri/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO ])
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(Embargoed until 6:00pm, May 16, 1999)
STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT
Today, the FBI released preliminary data showing that violent and property crime fell another 7
percent in 1998. Crime is now down for a remarkable seventh year in a row. More community
police on our streets and fewer guns in the hands of criminals have helped make our communities
the safest they have been in a generation.
But tragic events like those in Littleton, Colorado remind us that our work is far from done. We
all have a responsibility to make sure our children's lives are not cut short by needless violence,
and that all children have a chance to achieve their full potential. One of the things government
can do is to pass common sense gun legislation. We should start by closing the gun show
loophole that allows criminals and juveniles to buy guns at gun shows without so much as a
background check. If we do this, we can keep the crime rates coming down.
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SUBJECT: weekly
TO: Laura Emmett ( CN=Laura Emmett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1)
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Sorry so late..
Crime -- Juvenile Crime/Guns: As part of its consideration of juvenile
crime legislation, the Senate voted on a number gun-related amendments:
(1) Gun shows: The Senate narrowly passed two amendments dealing with gun
shows this week. After voting to table the Lautenberg amendment to
require background checks at all gun shows (51-47), the Senate passed a
Craig amendment establishing a system of voluntary background checks for
unlicensed sellers at gun shows. After considerable criticism,
Republicans tried to strengthen their gun shows amendment the next day by
making background checks mandatory for some gun sales at gun shows.
However, the Republicans' revised amendment would remains problematic.
Here is why:
(a) It continue to exempt some gun sellers -- or a new class of "special
licensees" created by the amendment -- from mandatory background checks.
(b) It would roll back current law to exempt pawnshops from conducting
background checks on redeemed firearms. It is worth noting that person
who redeem firearms at pawnshops are more than 3 times as likely to be a
prohibited purchaser under law.
(c) It would undermine federal law enforcement by not requiring a new
class of persons allowed to conduct background checks -- or "special
registrants" -- to assist law enforcement in tracing firearms, and by not
allowing federal law enforcement to require gun show sellers to certify
that they are in compliance with state and local gun laws.
(d) It would weaken the Brady Law by requiring background checks at gun
shows to take place within a 24-hour period (not a business day). Under
the Brady Law, the FBI has up to 3 business days if necessary to clarify
arrest records, and it requires additional time in about 20 to 30 percent
of the background checks. Thus, a background check conducted Saturday
morning at a gun show would have to be completed by Sunday morning, even
though the state court officer -- where many criminal records are kept --
would be closed.
Despite these problems, the Republican gun shows fix passed by a 48-47
vote (with 4 Democrats not voting). This amendment also included $50
million for enhanced federal firearms prosecutions, increased penalties
for criminals who use firearms, a watered down version of juvenile Brady,
and an expansion of the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative.
(2) Assault weapons: The Senate passed versions of two proposals included
in the Administration's gun legislation. The Senate passed an Ashcroft
amendment to bar juvenile possession of assault rifles and large capacity
ammunition clips. Unlike the Administration's proposal, however, the
Ashcroft ban contains numerous exemptions that track those for handguns in
the Youth Handgun Safety Act (e.g., hunting, ranching, etc.), and it only
bans possession through age 18. The Administration's bill would have
banned assault weapons and clips in every instance and for all persons
under the age of 21. The Senate also passed the Feinstein amendment to
bar the importation of all large capacity ammunition magazines.
(3) Internet sales: The Senate voted down a Schumer amendment to require
background checks for firearms sold on the Internet.
Although the Senate is expected to resume consideration of the juvenile
crime bill and other gun amendments next week, the bill may be taken off
the floor if Republicans and Democrats do not reach any agreement on how
to limit the number of outstanding amendments.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:14-MAY-1999 11:32:18.00
SUBJECT: Re: Radio Address Press Paper & Q/A
TO: Julianne B. Corbett ( CN=Julianne B. Corbett/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
not working on radio address its media violence right? I'll checkt to
see who's working on this.
jc3
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:14-MAY-1999 12:40:20.00
SUBJECT: Please Approve Revised Talking Points
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Now that I look at this one, I think the bullets on the Hatch amendent
could be stronger two, we could probably use this for Neera's
paper...jc3
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/14/99
12:40 PM
Deborah Akel
05/14/99 12:27:17 PM
Record Type: Record
To:
Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
cc:
Subject:
Please Approve Revised Talking Points
Jose,
Thanks for the suggestions - I revised these. Could you or Leanne please
approve them as soon as possible so I can get them sent out? Thanks.
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PRESIDENT CLINTON:
PROMOTING COMMON-SENSE GUN CONTROL MEASURES
May 14, 1999
"The new Senate Republican bill is riddled with high-caliber loopholes it makes no sense to let criminals
continue to use legitimate gun shows as a convenience store for their weapons."
President Bill Clinton
May 14, 1999
Today, in Washington, President Clinton urged the Senate to pass a measure requiring background checks for
handgun purchases at gun shows. He endorsed yesterday's Senate passage of two important gun control
measures: a ban on the import of large-capacity ammunition clips, and a ban on juvenile possession of
semi-automatic assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition clips. These measures were part of the
President's new proposal to strengthen gun laws and keep guns and explosives out of the hands of juveniles
and criminals.
CLOSING THE GUN SHOW LOOPHOLE. Last year, there were over 4,000 gun shows held in states across the
country, as well as flea markets and other events at which guns can be traded anonymously. An estimated
25-50% of the sellers at gun shows are unlicensed, and the guns sold by the unlicensed sellers are not subject
to background checks. As a result, gun shows can provide a forum for illegal firearms sales and gun
trafficking. A recent review of 314 gun show investigations by the ATF found that 46% of these
investigations involved the purchase or sale of firearms by felons, and 34% involved the sale of firearms later
used in serious crimes, including homicides. As part of his comprehensive new legislation designed to keep
guns out of the hands of juveniles and criminals, the President's proposal would require Brady Law
background checks on all firearms transferred at gun shows.
URGING THE SENATE TO "Do THE RIGHT THING." The President expressed his disappointment in the
Senate today for refusing to pass the measure to close the gun show loophole, while creating additional
loopholes in our gun laws. The measure passed by the Senate today:
allows criminals to purchase guns at gun shows and pawn shops with "no questions asked";
does not expand law enforcement's ability to trace firearms later used in crimes; and
does not enable law enforcement to ensure that gun sellers comply with the law.
The President urged the Senate to "do right by the American people" and reconsider this measure when all
members are present for a vote.
ENDORSING COMMON-SENSE MEASURES. President Clinton endorsed Senate passage of two important
gun control measures yesterday that were part of his package:
A ban on juvenile possession of semiautomatic assault rifles. This measure prohibits juveniles
under the age of 18 to possess deadly assault rifles and large capacity magazines.
A ban on the importation of all large capacity ammunition magazines. This measure bans the
importation of all large capacity magazines -- regardless of when they were manufactured.
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SUBJECT: This is the sentence I want to use, but w/a # if we can get it...jc3
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
ATF trace data show that guns used in crimes are much more likely to be
traced back to pawn shops than to legitimate gun dealers.
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:14-MAY-1999 12:37:22.00
SUBJECT: sorry so late
TO: Paul J. Weinstein Jr. ( CN=Paul J. Weinstein Jr./OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
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Gun shows
May 14, 1999
Q:
Earlier today, the Senate passed a Hatch amendment that he claims will "close the
gun show loophole" and require background checks at gun shows. Why do you
oppose this amendment?
A:
The Hatch amendment not only fails close the gun show loophole, but it also creates
other dangerous loopholes to our gun laws. Specifically, the amendment will:
(1) Not require Brady background checks for all gun sales at gun shows. It
specifically exempts a category of sellers, or "special licensees", that would be
exempt from conducting mandatory background checks.
(2) Roll back current law and exempt firearms sales and redemptions at
pawnshops from Brady background checks. This is especially important. The
Treasury Department estimates that persons who redeem guns at pawnshops are
more than three times as likely to be prohibited purchasers than those who buy
guns from gun dealers.
(3) Seriously undermine federal law enforcement's ability to trace firearms later
used in crimes, as well as to ensure that gun sellers comply with all state and
local laws. The amendment does not require a new category of persons that
could conduct background checks at gun shows, or "special registrants", to
assist law enforcement in tracing firearms that are later used in crimes. And
the amendment prevents federal law enforcement from requiring some gun show
sellers to certify that they are in compliance with all state and local laws.
(4) Impede the effectiveness of those Brady background checks that could be
conducted at gun shows by requiring them to be completed within 24 hours --
considerably less than the 3 days the FBI is allowed under current law to
complete checks and ensure that guns are not sold to criminals and other
prohibited purchasers.
For all these reasons, the Senate should vote again on the Lautenberg amendment --
and close the gun show loophole once and for all.
As the President said earlier today, if the Senate wants to do right by the American
people, it will once again bring up the Lautenberg amendment, when all members are
present, and close the gun show loophole once and for all.
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:14-MAY-1999 11:31:22.00
SUBJECT: Re: IACP Conference
TO: Karin Kullman ( CN=Karin Kullman/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Yep, let's think about it...jc3
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:14-MAY-1999 12:38:57.00
SUBJECT: Please Approve Revised Talking Points
TO: Leanne A. Shimabukuro ( CN=Leanne A. Shimabukuro/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
take a look at these...also, can we do 2 bullets for Neera on: (1) the 2
posivitive gun votes in the Senate; and (2) the failure to close the gun
show loophole and the disastrous new ones that were created by the
Senate's vote...jc3
Forwarded by Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP on 05/14/99
12:39 PM
Deborah Akel
05/14/99 12:27:17 PM
Record Type: Record
To:
Jose Cerda III/OPD/EOP
cc:
Subject:
Please Approve Revised Talking Points
Jose,
Thanks for the suggestions - I revised these. Could you or Leanne please
approve them as soon as possible so I can get them sent out? Thanks.
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PRESIDENT CLINTON:
PROMOTING COMMON-SENSE GUN CONTROL MEASURES
May 14, 1999
"The new Senate Republican bill is riddled with high-caliber loopholes. it makes no sense to let criminals
continue to use legitimate gun shows as a convenience store for their weapons."
President Bill Clinton
May 14, 1999
Today, in Washington, President Clinton urged the Senate to pass a measure requiring background checks for
handgun purchases at gun shows. He endorsed yesterday's Senate passage of two important gun control
measures: a ban on the import of large-capacity ammunition clips, and a ban on juvenile possession of
semi-automatic assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition clips. These measures were part of the
President's new proposal to strengthen gun laws and keep guns and explosives out of the hands of juveniles
and criminals.
CLOSING THE GUN SHOW LOOPHOLE. Last year, there were over 4,000 gun shows held in states across the
country, as well as flea markets and other events at which guns can be traded anonymously. An estimated
25-50% of the sellers at gun shows are unlicensed, and the guns sold by the unlicensed sellers are not subject
to background checks. As a result, gun shows can provide a forum for illegal firearms sales and gun
trafficking. A recent review of 314 gun show investigations by the ATF found that 46% of these
investigations involved the purchase or sale of firearms by felons, and 34% involved the sale of firearms later
used in serious crimes, including homicides. As part of his comprehensive new legislation designed to keep
guns out of the hands of juveniles and criminals, the President's proposal would require Brady Law
background checks on all firearms transferred at gun shows.
URGING THE SENATE TO "Do THE RIGHT THING." The President expressed his disappointment in the
Senate today for refusing to pass the measure to close the gun show loophole, while creating additional
loopholes in our gun laws. The measure passed by the Senate today:
allows criminals to purchase guns at gun shows and pawn shops with "no questions asked";
does not expand law enforcement's ability to trace firearms later used in crimes; and
does not enable law enforcement to ensure that gun sellers comply with the law.
The President urged the Senate to "do right by the American people" and reconsider this measure when all
members are present for a vote.
ENDORSING COMMON-SENSE MEASURES. President Clinton endorsed Senate passage of two important
gun control measures yesterday that were part of his package:
A ban on juvenile possession of semiautomatic assault rifles. This measure prohibits juveniles
under the age of 18 to possess deadly assault rifles and large capacity magazines.
A ban on the importation of all large capacity ammunition magazines. This measure bans the
importation of all large capacity magazines -- regardless of when they were manufactured.
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CREATOR: Jose Cerda III ( CN=Jose Cerda III/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:14-MAY-1999 14:26:55.00
SUBJECT: Re: operative paragraph redux
TO: Jeffrey A. Shesol ( CN=Jeffrey A. Shesol/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [WHO])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
I like this better; hadn't seen it when we were on the phone...jc3