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eorge Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Sept. 28
1791
em. I just had a
after the raid, he and Eleanor did some
demic came to west Dallas, Mr. Hill's land-
by the chief and
thinking. And he put it this way. He said,
lords were the local crack dealers until U.S.
1
aders, including
"You know, I've been waiting for this to hap-
marshals and the Dallas police put them out
H what impressed
pen. Now we're going to make a stand."
of business.
is doing to help
Please join us. Join John and Eleanor and
Audience member. Chicken George, why
caught up in this
Ohio Avenue and Fox Park and St. Louis and
don't you debate?
Missouri and this whole United States and
The President. [Laughter] Listen to this
that our "Weed
make a stand against crime today, because
guy. There are going to be debates.
leral program, is
the people deserve it.
May I say a word about the chicken ques-
eed", that means
Thank you all so very much for listening.
tion? May I say a word about-you're talking
nood, eradicating
May God bless Fox Park, Missouri. And God
about the draft record chicken or are you
e that can choke
bless the United States of America. Thank
talking about the chicken in the Arkansas
acing them with
you all very, very much.
River? Which one are you talking about?
ity and reform.
Which one? Get out of here. Maybe it's the
ackdown in St.
Note: The President spoke at 10:21 a.m. in
draft. Is that what's bothering you?
ral Government,
the parish hall of St. Francis de Sales Roman
Catholic Church.
All right now. As I was saying before being
cement, reclaim-
so rudely interrupted, I was telling about Mr.
hem back to the
Hill who owns his own barber shop. His west
your-the chief
Dallas neighborhood is on the way back, on
rogram, here in
the way back just the way all of you here
on a local level.
Remarks at the East Dallas
in east Dallas are on the move forward.
ages in your own
Renaissance Neighborhood Project
You know, I came here to talk about the
in Dallas, Texas
progress we're making in our quest to make
day, only a few
September 28, 1992
America more safe and secure. But first let
fficers raided a
e. And as those
The President. Thank you so much. I love
me just say a word about the dominant issue
ouse with those
what Michael Fells said about his house.
in this campaign, and that's the economy.
The American voter this year is confronted
he neighbors—
That's the way we all ought to feel about our
here-came out
homes. And I was very proud of that.
with two choices, two candidates with two
those police a
1.
Thanks to all of you for this great Dallas
very different economic strategies. If Gov-
welcome. May I salute your wonderful
ernor Clinton is elected, by next year we will
That's what this
Mayor, an old friend of mine and Barbara's,
have hundreds of billions of new Govern-
ans want to take
>ods and put the
Steve Bartlett, doing an outstanding job for
ment spending, higher taxes on the middle
ot to "weed" the
this wonderful area, this wonderful city. Also
class, and no restraints on Federal spending,
I want to salute Judge Lee Jackson and your
and even more pressure on the Federal defi-
and in its place,
Congressman-a Congressman-not this
cit.
district, but right next door, Sam Johnson,
So Governor Clinton claims he knows a
I know you just
to Worth's Mar-
doing a fine job for Dallas. May I salute our
way to reduce the budget deficit by increas-
ere for a stroll
sheriff, Sheriff Bowles, and our new police
ing taxes on the middle class and giving Con-
;tore for a news-
chief from Dallas, been here a while, doing
gress more of your money to spend. I believe
the way to reduce the deficit is by making
or a cup of cof-
a great job with the law enforcement com-
t-[laughter]-
munity, Chief Bill Rathburn over here.
tough choices and cutting Government
ing you're safe
While I'm in the neighborhood, I want to
spending.
at you've helped
recognize Meadows Foundation for their
That's why we put forward a plan, a serious
work restoring homes, restoring hope in this
program to control the growth of spending
it best. He lives
community. I saw a little bit of that when
with almost $300 billion in savings over 5
IOWS about that
Steven here and Dirk and Cheryl, Cheryl
years. I've gone on the record, targeted 246
io. He said he
Harley, showed me around this house that
programs, 4,000 wasteful projects that I want
been thinking
they are fixing to restore. So I'm just de-
to eliminate altogether. I want to use these
lighted to be here. Also pleased to welcome
savings to reduce the deficit, to reduce the
ust moving out,
and all the ugly
a cross-town guest from west Dallas, Mr.
tax burden on the working men and women,
ved in Fox Hill
Artrous Hill, who for 41 years ran the barber-
and still do what's right by our neighbor-
hborhood. And
shop on Puget Street. When the drug epi-
hoods.
1792
Sept. 28 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
You know, this is a tough time for the
But, you know, the change taking place
world economy. But the brighter days are
here is just the beginning. Each one of you
right here around the corner, and America
is going to have to do your part in taking
can and will lead the way forward if we make
back the streets and then keeping this com-
the right choices this November.
munity crime free. I'm here today to tell you
Whether it's the building of a strong econ-
as President, we can help. The key is a new
omy or strengthening our families or keeping
approach, one that combines a no-nonsense
our streets safe, I put my trust in the people.
approach to crime with social programs that
That's why I am delighted to be here today
promise real help. Too often in the past we've
to salute all of you for helping take this com-
pursued our social programs and our law en-
munity back, helping make east Dallas a safe
forcement efforts on totally separate tracks.
place to live, to raise kids, to stake a claim
As a result, many of our urban revitalization
on the American dream.
efforts are cut short by crime.
The neighbors we've seen and the neigh-
You know, what I'm talking about is this:
bors I've heard from—I don't care about the
We build public housing only to see these
politics-they are doing what is right. They
buildings taken over as crack houses. We
are here to help build a neighborhood and
build model schools only to see them become
protect their homes. Now, this community
war zones where fear follows teachers and
is one community that is breaking out of the
students right into the classroom. Then we
cycle of violence in America.
build playgrounds for children only to see
You know, in the past year, overall crime
them become battlegrounds for drug push-
in the city of Dallas is down 13.7 percent.
ers. When a neighborhood is overridden by
Violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, as-
crime, businesses are driven away, taking
sault, has dropped 14.1 percent. That is good
jobs and opportunities with them.
news. It represents thousands of hours of
We're tackling each one of these issues,
hard work for the Dallas police, for the sher-
each one of these problems, with a new ap-
iff's department, for the crime watch groups
proach that we call "Weed and Seed." "Weed
like Mill Creek and others all across Dallas.
and Seed" is not so much a new spending
You deserve to be congratulated-right
program as a whole new method of operat-
there.
ing. Let me tell you how it works. As the
But it does not make the crimes that take
first step, Federal, State, and local enforce-
place every day any less real. The building
ment officers concentrate their efforts on
behind us here brought the reality of crime
neighborhoods like this one. Working with
close to home, literally, right next door. You
you, the community, they "weed" out the
know The Mohawk as a crime haven, a crime
gangs, the criminals and the crackheads and
den, a crack den, not as home but as a house
the drug dealers. As the streets are reclaimed
of horror. Some weekend nights, I'm told,
from the criminals, community policing is
as many'as a hundred cars line Swiss Avenue,
put in place to help hold every inch of the
bringing customers in search of heroin and
ground that we've taken. Police commanders
crack and marijuana. Addicts used to roam
attend community meetings; officers patrol
this neighborhood, offering to do odd jobs
neighborhoods on foot; and residents feel
for $10, the price of a crack high.
safe knowing who is on the beat in their area.
One day a crackhead fired a gun at Mi-
Finally, the broad array of Federal, State,
chael Fells as he was sitting on his front
and local government and private sector
porch, and in 2 months time last spring police
community revitalization programs are
made more than 200 arrests at that one ad-
brought to bear on the community, to "seed"
dress alone. But all that has changed. The
in long-term stability, growth, and oppor-
morning of June 5, the day U.S. marshals
tunity. Drug prevention programs, Head
and Dallas police swept in and seized this
Start, job training, health care programs,
building, that day many of you came out to
community development grants, all are ap-
cheer, to celebrate the day that the law came
plied together in one place and at one time
back to this street. Today The Mohawk
in a true working partnership with the com-
doesn't just have a history, it has a future.
munity.
George Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / Sept. 28
1793
ange taking place
Each one of you
"Weed and Seed" is already up and run-
1
one-fifth of his sentence last year. Most Fed-
our part in taking
ning in Fort Worth and in 19 other cities
eral inmates serve 85 percent of their sen-
keeping this com-
across the country. This year I asked the
tence. Violent crimes in Arkansas went up
e today to tell you
Congress for $500 million to fund "Weed and
almost 60 percent in the eighties, over twice
The key is a new
Seed" programs in 50 or more communities.
the national average. Arkansas had the Na-
es a no-nonsense
I know east Dallas would like to be one of
tion's biggest increase in overall crime and
cial programs that
them. Congress has appropriated the money,
the third biggest in violent crime. This kind
a in the past we've
but they have not authorized it. I wouldn't
of record is not right for Arkansas, and it
IS and our law en-
bother you with these fine congressional dis-
is not right for America.
y separate tracks.
tinctions, but I have to because unless Con-
Just ask the Fraternal Order of Police in
ban revitalization
gress acts, Dallas or any American city for
Little Rock, Arkansas. They know Governor
e.
that matter, won't get one single dollar of
Clinton's record best, and they're endorsing
ing about is this:
what it needs.
me for President. I'm very proud of that en-
only to see these
You need help, and you need it now. If
dorsement.
rack houses. We
you work the late shift at some convenience
As President, I pushed Congress to put
see them become
store, you shouldn't have to worry about
tough talk aside and take action. I sent my
WS teachers and
whether you're going to be safe walking
comprehensive crime package to Congress
sroom. Then we
home. If you're sitting on your porch, you
more than 3 years ago, June 15th, 1989, to
Iren only to see
shouldn't have to be on the lookout for a car
be exact. What's happened since then? The
S for drug push-
full of hoods with a gun. If you need to run
fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of Soviet com-
is overridden by
out for milk and bread late at night, you
munism, the invasion and the liberation of
en away, taking
shouldn't have to worry about who you'll run
Kuwait, and Congress has sat on my crime
hem.
into at the corner of Swiss and Moreland.
package for 1,201 days, 1,201 days. In those
of these issues,
This is your home and your community
1,201 days here in Dallas alone, 1,441 people
with a new ap-
and the place your children play. You deserve
have been murdered. In those 1,201 days,
d Seed." "Weed
to be safe here. It pains me to say that every
3,997 have been raped. All told, in those
a new spending
day we're being forced to learn a new vocab-
1,201 days, 79,903 have been victims of vio-
ethod of operat-
ulary for crime. Back in Washington we've
lent crime.
È works. As the
had a wave of what they now call carjackings,
Each one of those days, another inriocent
d local enforce-
where a criminal steals a car, not when it's
person becomes a statistic. We do not have
heir efforts on
parked but when you're sitting in a parking
another day to waste. We need this com-
Working with
lot or waiting at a red light.
prehensive crime package. We need more
"weed" out the
Just this month, carjackers stole the car
prisons, more police, more swift and certain
crackheads and
of a woman taking her small daughter to her
punishment. We need a Federal death pen-
ets are reclaimed
first day of preschool. They dragged the
alty for cop killers and drug kingpins. Tough
nity policing is
woman to her death and tossed her little baby
new provisions against sex crimes and domes-
ery inch of the
out of the window. Something is wrong in
tic violence, we need that also. We need to
ce commanders
our cities, something is wrong in our society
make carjacking a Federal offense; apply
officers patrol
when crimes like that are commonplace. We
Federal racketeering laws to help us go after
residents feel
will not and cannot stand by and see innocent
gangs. We need to strike a blow for respon-
at in their area.
people terrorized, innocent people paralyzed
sibility by using Federal law to enforce child
Federal, State,
by fear. We've got to be tougher on the crimi-
support payments from all those deadbeat fa-
private sector
nals. Carjackers or crack dealers, whatever
thers.
programs are
the crime may be, we've got to draw the line.
We must get reforms. I believe in backing
inity, to "seed"
I ask you to get Congress to give me the
up our police officers, and we need reforms
h, and oppor-
support we need to draw the line against
to put a stop to the endless appeals that make
grams, Head
them.
a mockery of justice for the victims of crime.
are programs,
But this we know: Tough talk won't do it.
We need reforms that slam shut the revolving
its, all are ap-
My opponent in this Presidential race talks
door of justice that far too often lets these
d at one time
a tough game, but I would like you just for
criminals go free.
with the com-
a minute to take a look at the Arkansas record
What you're doing here puts you on the
and see where Governor Clinton stands. The
side of the angels. But you cannot do it alone.
average inmate in Arkansas served less than
You can't do it if the system mocks the vic-
1794
Sept. 28 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
tims and if criminals own the streets and law-
Through multiple, focussed measures, we are
abiding citizens are prisoners in their own
eliciting the results we seek.
homes.
This year China joined global efforts to
Let's get our cities and our citizens and
control the spread of nuclear weapons and
our cops the help that they need, the help
ballistic missiles by declaring adherence to
they must have to drive crime and drugs off
the Missile Technology Control Regime's
our streets and out of our lives, here in east
(MTCR) guidelines and parameters and sign-
Dallas and all across the United States of
ing the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
America. Let's make some changes in Con-
Chinese behavior remains MTCR-consistent,
gress and clean House. Absolutely!
and we have begun a dialogue with the Chi-
Thank you for this wonderful, warm wel-
nese on their responsibilities under the NPT.
come of east Dallas. It's a privilege to spend
We continue to monitor vigilantly China's
this time in your community. May God bless
weapons export practices. We have used the
the United States of America. Thank you very
sanction authorities available successfully and
much.
remain prepared to do so again if necessary.
We have made progress on the resolution
Note: The President spoke at 2:45 p.m. In
of outstanding trade issues with our agree-
his remarks, he referred to Michael Fells,
ments to protect Intellectual Property Rights
resident and member of the Mill Creek
and to ban prison labor exports. I will not
Homeowners Association; Lee Jackson, Dal-
allow, however, market access to remain a
las county judge; and Steven Hugh, Dirk
one-sided benefit in China's favor while our
Newton, and Cheryl Harley, co-owners, 4514
bilateral trade deficit grows. If China fails to
Swiss Avenue Apartment Complex Renova-
reduce trade barriers, we are prepared to
tion Project.
take trade action under the statutory guide-
lines of section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.
The limited steps China has taken on
human rights are inadequate. But our human
Message to the House of
rights dialogue gives us an avenue to express
Representatives Returning Without
our views directly to China's leaders. Signifi-
Approval the United States-China
cant improvement in China's human rights
Act of 1992
situation, including freedom for all those im-
prisoned solely for the peaceful expression
September 28, 1992
of their beliefs, remains our objective. It is
To the House of Representatives:
easy to be discouraged by the pace of
progress in this area. But it would be a seri-
I am returning herewith without my ap-
ous mistake to let our frustration lead us to
proval H.R. 5318, the "United States-China
gamble with policies that would undermine
Act of 1992," which places additional condi-
our goals.
tions on renewal of China's most-favored-na-
Withdrawing MFN or conditioning it, such
tion (MFN) trade status.
that it will be withdrawn at a later date, will
I share completely the goals of this legisla-
not promote these goals. H.R. 5318 imposes
tion: to see greater Chinese adherence to
unworkable constraints on our bilateral trade.
international standards of human rights, free
Among the casualties of this bill would be
and fair trade practices, and international
the dynamic, market-oriented regions of
nonproliferation norms. However, adding
southern China and Hong Kong, as well as
broad conditions to China's MFN renewal
those Chinese who support reform and rely
would not lead to faster progress in advanc-
on outside contact for support.
ing our goals. To those who advocate this ap-
The impact of this bill would extend be-
proach, let me set the record straight.
yond the state enterprise system, harming
Our policy of comprehensive engagement
independent industrial and agricultural enti-
lets the Chinese know in no uncertain terms
ties that have sprung up in China since the
that "business as usual" is not possible until
advent of economic reform and its opening
they take steps to resolve our differences.
to the outside. These family-owned and oper-
Document No. 3526425
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE:
9/27/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SUBJECT:
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
MOORE
SCOWCROFT
MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
KAUFMAN
GRAY
GROOMES
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
HORNER
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
1.22P.28 P2:53
September 26, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVE PROVOST
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY
SUBJECT:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
I. Summary
On Monday, September 28, at 2:45 p.m., you will deliver
remarks to approximately 1500 people gathered in front of The
Mohawk Apartment Building in East Dallas.
II. Discussion
Your remarks (12 minutes, on cards) highlight your Weed and
Seed program and the East Dallas Renaissance Project -- a local
effort to turn around a crime-ridden neighborhood.
McGroarty/Nix
September 26, 1992
2:00 p.m.
DALLAS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
2:45 P.M.
Thank you,
,
for those kind words -- and thanks, all of
you, for this warm welcome. [Acknowledgements]
I am delighted to be here today -- to salute all of you who
are helping take this community back -- helping make East Dallas
a safe place to live, to raise kids, to stake a claim on the
American Dream.
This community is one community that is breaking out of the
cycle of violence in America. In the past year, overall crime in
the city of Dallas is down 13.7%. Violent crime -- murder, rape,
robbery, assault -- has dropped 14.1%. //
That's good news that represents so many hours of hard work
for the Dallas police, for the Crime Watch groups like Mill Creek
and others all across Dallas. But it doesn't make the crimes
that take place every day any less real. The building behind me
brought the reality of crime close to home -- literally, right
next door. You know The Mohawk as a crime haven. A crack den.
Not as home -- but as a house of horror.
Some weekend nights, as many as 100 cars lined Swiss Avenue,
bringing customers in search of heroin and crack and marijuana.
Addicts used to roam this neighborhood, offering to do odd jobs
for 10 dollars -- the price of a crack high. One day, a
2
crackhead fired a gun at one of the neighbors sitting on their
front porch. And in two months' time last spring, police made
more than 200 arrests at this one address alone. //
But all that has changed -- changed the morning of June 5th,
the day U.S. Marshals and Dallas Police swept in and seized this
building. That day many of you came out to cheer -- to celebrate
the day law came back to this street.
Today, The Mohawk doesn't just have a history. It has a
future. //
But you know the change taking place here is just the
beginning. Each one of you is going to have to do your part in
taking back the streets and then keeping this community crime-
free. //
I'm here today to tell you, as President, we can help. The
key is a new approach -- one that combines a no-nonsense approach
to crime with social programs that promise real hope.
Too often in the past we have pursued our social programs
and our law enforcement efforts on separate tracks. As a result,
many of our urban revitalization efforts are cut short by crime.
You know what I'm talking about: We build public housing
only to see these buildings taken over as crack houses.
We build model schools only to see them become war zones --
where fear follows teachers and students right into the
classroom.
We build playgrounds for children only to see them become
battlegrounds for drug pushers.
3
And when a neighborhood is overridden by crime, businesses
are driven away -- taking jobs and opportunities with them.
We're tackling each one of these problems with a new
approach we call Weed and Seed.
Weed and Seed is not so much a new spending program as a
whole new method of operating. / Here's how it works. As the
first step: federal, state and local law enforcement officers
concentrate their efforts on neighborhoods like this one.
Working with you -- the community -- they "weed out" the gangs,
the criminals and the crackheads and the drug dealers.
As the streets are reclaimed from the criminals, community
policing is put in place -- to help hold every inch of the ground
we've taken. Police commanders attend community meetings /
officers patrol neighborhoods on foot / and residents feel safe
knowing who is on the beat in their area.
Finally, the broad array of federal, state and local
government and private sector community revitalization programs
are brought to bear on the community -- to "seed in" long-term
stability, growth and opportunity. Drug prevention programs,
Head Start, job training, health care programs, community
development grants -- all are applied together -- in one place /
at one time / in a true working partnership with the community.
Weed and Seed is already up and running in Ft. Worth -- and
in 19 other cities across the country. / This year, I asked the
Congress for $500 million dollars to fund Weed and Seed programs
in 50 or more communities -- and I know East Dallas would like to
4
be one of them. Congress has authorized the money -- but they
haven't appropriated it. I wouldn't bother you with these fine
Congressional distinctions -- but I have to: Because until
Congress acts, Dallas -- or any American city for that matter --
won't get one single dollar of the aid it needs.
And sad to say, that's just part of a larger pattern of
inaction.
What you're doing here puts you on the side of the angels.
But you can't do it alone. You can't do it if the system mocks
the victims -- if criminals own the streets and law-abiding
citizens are prisoners in their own homes. //
If you work the late shift at the convenience store, you
shouldn't have to worry whether you'll be safe walking home. If
you're sitting on your porch, you shouldn't have to be on the
look-out for a carful of hoods with a gun. If you need to run
out for milk and bread late at night, you shouldn't have to worry
about who you'll run into at the corner of Swiss and Moreland.
This is your home. This is your community. The place your
children play. You deserve to be safe here. //
It pains me to say that, every day, we're being forced to
learn a new vocabulary for crime. Back in Washington, we've had
a wave of what they now call "carjackings": where a criminal
steals a car -- not when it's parked -- but when you're sitting
in a parking lot or waiting at a red light.
Just this month, carjackers stole the car of a woman taking
her small daughter to her first day of pre-school. They dragged
5
the woman to her death -- and tossed her baby onto the road.
//
Something's wrong in our cities. Something is wrong in our
society -- when crimes like that are commonplace. //
Carjackers or crack dealers -- whatever the crime may be:
We've got to draw the line. //
I'll say right here what I said earlier today in St. Louis.
Congress has sat on my crime package for 1201 days. One thousand
two hundred and one days. //
Tough talk is not enough. We need my comprehensive crime
package. We need more prisons, more police -- more swift and
certain punishment. We need a federal death penalty for cop
killers and drug kingpins. Tough new provisions against sex
crimes and domestic violence. We need to make carjacking a
federal offense / apply federal racketeering laws to help us go
after gangs / we need to strike a blow for responsibility by
using federal law to enforce child support payments from all the
deadbeat Dads. We need reforms to put a stop to the endless
appeals that make a mockery of justice for the victims of crime -
- reforms that slam shut the revolving-door justice that far too
often lets criminals go free. //
And let me say to the leaders who control the Congress: I
know you're planning on calling it quits for the year in early
October. But let's put those last few days to good use. Keep
the lights on late if you have to -- but pass my comprehensive
crime bill -- and pass it now. //
6
And if the liberal leaders of Congress come back at me and
say, "There's not enough time to act" -- let me tell them what's
been happening since the crime clock started ticking 1,201 days
ago.
In those 1201 days -- here in Dallas alone -- 1,441 people
have been murdered.
In those 1201 days -- 3,997 have been raped.
All told, in those 1201 days -- 79,903 people have been
victims of violent crime. 11
Each one of those 1201 days, another innocent person becomes
a statistic. //
Well, we don't have another day to waste.
Let's get our cities and our citizens and our cops the help
they need -- the help they must have to drive crime and drugs off
our streets and out of our lives: Here in East Dallas, and all
across America. //
Thank you for this warm East Dallas welcome -- it's a
privilege to spend this time in your community. May God bless
you and the United States of America.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 26, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVE PROVOST
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY
SUBJECT:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
I. Summary
On Monday, September 28, at 2:45 p.m., you will deliver
remarks to approximately 1500 people gathered in front of The
Mohawk Apartment Building in East Dallas.
II. Discussion
Your remarks (12 minutes, on cards) highlight your Weed and
Seed program and the East Dallas Renaissance Project -- a local
effort to turn around a crime-ridden neighborhood.
McGroarty/Nix
September 26, 1992
2:00 p.m.
DALLAS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
2:45 P.M.
Thank you,
-----,
for those kind words -- and thanks, all of
you, for this warm welcome. [Acknowledgements]
I am delighted to be here today -- to salute all of you who
are helping take this community back -- helping make East Dallas
a safe place to live, to raise kids, to stake a claim on the
American Dream.
This community is one community that is breaking out of the
cycle of violence in America. In the past year, overall crime in
the city of Dallas is down 13.7%. Violent crime -- murder, rape,
robbery, assault -- has dropped 14.1%. //
That's good news that represents so many hours of hard work
for the Dallas police, for the Crime Watch groups like Mill Creek
and others all across Dallas. But it doesn't make the crimes
that take place every day any less real. The building behind me
brought the reality of crime close to home -- literally, right
next door. You know The Mohawk as a crime haven. A crack den.
Not as home -- but as a house of horror.
Some weekend nights, as many as 100 cars lined Swiss Avenue,
bringing customers in search of heroin and crack and marijuana.
Addicts used to roam this neighborhood, offering to do odd jobs
for 10 dollars -- the price of a crack high. One day, a
2
crackhead fired a gun at one of the neighbors sitting on their
front porch. And in two months' time last spring, police made
more than 200 arrests at this one address alone. 11
But all that has changed -- changed the morning of June 5th,
the day U.S. Marshals and Dallas Police swept in and seized this
building. That day many of you came out to cheer -- to celebrate
the day law came back to this street.
Today, The Mohawk doesn't just have a history. It has a
future. 11
But you know the change taking place here is just the
beginning. Each one of you is going to have to do your part in
taking back the streets and then keeping this community crime-
free. 11
I'm here today to tell you, as President, we can help. The
key is a new approach -- one that combines a no-nonsense approach
to crime with social programs that promise real hope.
Too often in the past we have pursued our social programs
and our law enforcement efforts on separate tracks. As a result,
many of our urban revitálization efforts are cut short by crime.
You know what I'm talking about: We build public housing
only to see these buildings taken over as crack houses.
We build model schools only to see them become war zones --
where fear follows teachers and students right into the
classroom.
We build playgrounds for children only to see them become
battlegrounds for drug pushers.
3
And when a neighborhood is overridden by crime, businesses
are driven away -- taking jobs and opportunities with them.
We're tackling each one of these problems with a new
approach we call Weed and Seed.
Weed and Seed is not so much a new spending program as a
whole new method of operating. / Here's how it works. As the
first step: federal, state and local law enforcement officers
concentrate their efforts on neighborhoods like this one.
Working with you --- the community -- they "weed out" the gangs,
the criminals and the crackheads and the drug dealers.
As the streets are reclaimed from the criminals, community
policing is put in place -- to help hold every inch of the ground
we've taken. Police commanders attend community meetings /
officers patrol neighborhoods on foot / and residents feel safe
knowing who is on the beat in their area.
Finally, the broad array of federal, state and local
government and private sector community revitalization programs
are brought to bear on the community -- to "seed in" long-term
stability, growth and opportunity. Drug prevention programs,
Head Start, job training, health care programs, community
development grants -- all are applied together -- in one place /
at one time / in a true working partnership with the community.
Weed and Seed is already up and running in Ft. worth -- and
in 19 other cities across the country. / This year, I asked the
Congress for $500 million dollars to fund weed and Seed programs
in 50 or more communities -- and I know East Dallas would like to
4
be one of them. Congress has authorized the money -- but they
haven't appropriated it. I wouldn't bother you with these fine
Congressional distinctions -- but I have to: Because until
Congress acts, Dallas -- or any American city for that matter --
won't get one single dollar of the aid it needs.
And sad to say, that's just part of a larger pattern of
inaction.
what you're doing here puts you on the side of the angels.
But you can't do it alone. You can't do it if the system mocks
the victims -- if criminals own the streets and law-abiding
citizens are prisoners in their own homes. 11
If you work the late shift at the convenience store, you
shouldn't have to worry whether you'll be safe walking home. If
you're sitting on your porch, you shouldn't have to be on the
look-out for a carful of hoods with a gun. If you need to run
out for milk and bread late at night, you shouldn't have to worry
about who you'll run into at the corner of Swiss and Moreland.
This is your home. This is your community. The place your
children play. You deserve to be safe here. 11
It pains me to say that, every day, we're being forced to
learn a new vocabulary for crime. Back in Washington, we've had
a wave of what they now call "carjackings": where a criminal
steals a car -- not when it's parked -- but when you're sitting
in a parking lot or waiting at a red light.
Just this month, carjackers stole the car of a woman taking
her small daughter to her first day of pre-school. They dragged
5
the woman to her death -- and tossed her baby onto the road. 11
Something's wrong in our cities. Something is wrong in our
society -- when crimes like that are commonplace. 11
Carjackers or crack dealers -- whatever the crime may be:
We've got to draw the line. 11
I'll say right here what I said earlier today in St. Louis.
Congress has sat on my crime package for 1201 days. One thousand
two hundred and one days. 11
Tough talk is not enough. We need my comprehensive crime
package. We need more prisons, more police -- more swift and
certain punishment. We need a federal death penalty for cop
killers and drug kingpins. Tough new provisions against sex
crimes and domestic violence. We need to make carjacking a
federal offense / apply federal racketeering laws to help us go
after gangs / we need to strike a blow for responsibility by
using federal law to enforce child support payments from all the
deadbeat Dads. We need reforms to put a stop to the endless
appeals that make a mockery of justice for the victims of crime -
- reforms that slam shut the revolving-door justice that far too
often lets criminals go free. 11
And let me say to the leaders who control the Congress: I
know you're planning on calling it quits for the year in early
October. But let's put those last few days to good use. Keep
the lights on late if you have to -- but pass my comprehensive
crime bill -- and pass it now. 11
6
And if the liberal leaders of Congress come back at me and
say, "There's not enough time to act" -- let me tell them what's
been happening since the crime clock started ticking 1,201 days
ago.
In those 1201 days -- here in Dallas alone -- 1,441 people
have been murdered.
In those 1201 days -- 3,997 have been raped.
All told, in those 1201 days -- 79,903 people have been
victims of violent crime, 11
Each one of those 1201 days, another, innocent person becomes
a statistic. 11
Well, we don't have another day to waste.
Let's get our cities and our citizens and our cops the help
they need the help they must have to drive crime and drugs off
our streets and out of our lives: Here in East Dallas, and all
across America. 11
Thank you for this warm East Dallas welcome -- it's a
privilege to spend this time in your community. May God bless
you and the United States of America.
#
Document No. 352642SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
9/25/92
5:00PM, TODAY, SEPT. 25
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SUBJECT:
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992, MONDAY
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
X MOORE
SCOWCROFT
X MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
X PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO N/C
SMITH N/C
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
X ZOELLICK
KAUFMAN
GRAY
GROOMES
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
HORNER
REMARKS:
Please provide comments on the attached directly
to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to
this office NO LATER THAN 5:00PM, TODAY, SEPTEMBER 25.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
>
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Nix
September 25, 1992
12:30 p.m.
DALLAS
2 SEP 25 P2: 17
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
TIME??
Thank you,
,
for those kind words -- and thanks, all of
you, for this warm welcome. [Acknowledgements)]
I am delighted to be here today -- to salute all of you
who're helping take this community back -- helping make East
Dallas a safe place to live, to raise kids, to stake a claim on
the American Dream.
This community is one community that is breaking out of the
cycle of violence in America. In the past year, overall crime in
the city of Dallas is down 13.7%. Violent crime -- murder, rape,
robbery, assault -- has dropped 14.1%. 11
That's good news that represents so many hours of hard work
for the Dallas police, for the Crime Watch groups like [Mill
Creek] and others all across Dallas. But it doesn't make the
crimes that take place every day any less real. The building
behind me brought the reality of crime close to home --
literally, right next door. You know The Mohawk as a crime
haven. A crack den. Not as home -- but as a house of horror.
Some nights, as many as 100 cars lined Swiss Street,
bringing customers in search of heroin and crack cocaine and
marijuana. Addicts used to roam this neighborhood, offering to
do odd jobs for 10 dollars -- the price of a crack high. One
HIR FURCE UNE
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:08
PG.03
2
day, a crackhead fired a gun at one of the neighbors sitting on
their front porch. And in two months' time last spring, police
made more than 200 arrests at this one address alone. 11
But all that has changed -- changed the morning of August
XX, the day U.S. Marshals swept in and seized this building.
That day hundreds of you came out to cheer -- to celebrate the
day law came back to this street.
Today, the Mohawk doesn't just have a history. It has a
future. 11
But you know the change taking place here is just the
beginning. Each one of you is going to have to do your part in
taking back the streets and then keeping this community crime-
free. 11
I'm here today to tell you, as President, I'm doing more
than just sympathize. We can help. The key is a new approach
-
- one that combines a no-nonsense approach to crime with social
programs that promise real hope. We call this new approach Weed
and Seed.
Too often in the past we have pursued our social programs
and our law enforcement efforts on separate tracks. As a result,
many of our urban revitalization efforts are cut short by crime.
You know what I'm talking about: We build public housing
only to see these buildings taken over as crack houses.
We build model schools only to see them become war zones --
where fear follows teachers and students right into the
classroom.
HIB FORCE UNE
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:09
PG.04
3
We build playgrounds for children only to see them become
battlegrounds for drug pushers.
And when a neighborhood is overridden by crime, businesses
are driven away -- taking jobs and opportunities with them.
We're tackling each one of these problems with a new
approach we call Weed and Seed.
Weed and Seed is not so much a new spending program but a
whole new method of operating. / Here's how it works. As the
first step: federal, state and local law enforcement concentrate
their efforts on neighborhoods like this one. Working with you -
- the community -- they "weed out" the gangs, the criminals and
the crackheads and drug dealers.
As the streets are reclaimed from the criminals, community
policing is put in place -- to help hold every inch of the ground
we've taken. Police commanders attend community meetings /
officers patrol neighborhoods on foot / and residents feel safe
knowing who is on the beat in their area.
Finally, the broad array of federal, state and local
government and private sector community revitalization programs
are brought to bear on the community -- to "seed in" long-term
stability, growth and opportunity. Drug prevention programs,
Head Start, job training, health care programs, community
development grants -- all are applied together -- in one place /
at one time / in a true working partnership with the community.
Weed and Seed is already up and running in Ft. Worth -- and
in 20 other cities across the country. / This year, I asked the
HIR FURCE UNE
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:09
PG.05
4
Congress for $500 million dollars to fund Weed and Seed programs
in 30 more communities -- and I know East Dallas would like to be
one of them. They've appropriated the money -- but they haven't
authorized it. I wouldn't bother you with these fine
Congressional distinctions -- but I have to: Because until
Congress acts, Dallas -- or any American city for that matter
--
won't get one single dollar of the aid you need.
And sad to say, that's just part of a larger pattern of
inaction.
What you're doing here puts you on the side of the angels.
But you can't do it alone. You can't do it if the system mocks
the victims -- if criminals own the streets and law-abiding
citizens are prisoners in their own homes. 11
If you work the late shift at the convenience store, you
shouldn't have to worry whether you'll be safe walking home. If
you're sitting on your porch, you shouldn't have to be on the
look-out for a carful of hoods with a gun. If you need to run
out for milk and bread late at night, you shouldn't have to worry
about who you'll run into at the corner of Swiss and Moreland.
This is your home. This is your community. The place your
children play. You deserve to be safe here. 11
It pains me to say that, every day, we're being forced to
learn a new vocabulary for crime. Back in Washington, we've had
a wave of what they now call "carjackings:" where a criminal
steals a car -- not when it's parked -- but when you're sitting
in a parking lot or waiting at a red light -- with you in it.
AIR FORCE ONE
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:10
PG.06
5
Just this month, carjackers stole the car of a woman taking
her small daughter to her first day of nursery school. They
dragged the woman to her death -- and tossed her baby out the
window. 11
Something's wrong in our cities. Something is wrong in our
society -- when crimes like that are commonplace. 11
Carjackers or crack dealers -- whatever the crime may be:
We've got to draw the line. 11
I'll say right here what I said earlier today in St. Louis.
Congress has sat on my crime package for 1215 days. One thousand
two hundred and fifteen days. 11
Congress says it won't move without gun control. Well, so
be it: I will accept a gun control bill -- if -- if the Congress
passes my comprehensive crime package. 11
Tough talk is not enough. We need more prisons, more police
-- more swift and certain punishment. We need a federal death
penalty for cop killers and drug kingpins. Tough new provisions
against sex crimes and domestic violence. We need to make
carjacking a federal offense / apply federal racketeering laws to
help us go after gangs / we need to strike a blow for
responsibility by using federal law to enforce child support
payments from all the deadbeat Dads. We need reforms to put a
stop to the endless appeals that make a mockery of justice for
the victims of crime -- reforms that slam shut the revolving-
door justice that far too often lets criminals go free. 11
AIR FORCE ONE
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:11
PG.07
6
And let me say to the leaders who control the Congress: I
know you're planning on calling it quits for the year in early
October. But let's put those last few days to good use. Keep
the lights on late if you have to -- but pass my comprehensive
crime bill -- and pass it now. 11
And if the liberal leaders of Congress come back at me and
say, "There's not enough Lime LU all" -- lel me Lell them what's
been happening since the crime clock started ticking 1,215 days
ago.
In those 1215 days -- here in Dallas alone -- [xxx] people
have been murdered.
In those 1215 days -- [xxx] have been raped.
In those 1215 days -- [xxxx] innocent people have been
victims of violent crime. 11
Each one of those 1215 days, another innocent person becomes
a statistic. 11
Well, we don't have another day to waste.
Let's get our cities and our citizens and our cops the help
they need -- the help they must have to drive crime and drugs off
our streets and out of our lives: Here in East Dallas, and all
across America. 11
Thank you for this warm East Dallas welcome -- it's a
privilege to spend this time in your community. May God bless
the United States of America.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 25, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVE PROVOST
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY Dr.
SUBJECT:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
I. Summary
On Monday, September 28, at 2:45 p.m., you will deliver
remarks to approximately 1500 people gathered in front of The
Mohawk Apartment Building in East Dallas.
II. Discussion
Your remarks (12 minutes, on cards) highlight the East
Dallas Renaissance Project -- a local effort to turn around a
crime-ridden neighborhood. This community is preparing a Weed
and Seed application -- but will never see funding if Congress
does not pass authorizing legislation.
Additionally, you note your willingness to accept the Brady
Bill if Congress passes your comprehensive crime package.
McGroarty/Nix
September 25, 1992
8:00 p.m.
DALLAS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
2:45 P.M.
Thank you,
, for those kind words -- and thanks, all of
you, for this warm welcome. [Acknowledgements]
I am delighted to be here today -- to salute all of you who
are helping take this community back -- helping make East Dallas
a safe place to live, to raise kids, to stake a claim on the
American Dream.
This community is one community that is breaking out of the
cycle of violence in America. In the past year, overall crime in
the city of Dallas is down 13.7%. Violent crime -- murder, rape,
robbery, assault -- has dropped 14.1%. . //
That's good news that represents so many hours of hard work
for the Dallas police, for the Crime Watch groups like Mill Creek
and others all across Dallas. But it doesn't make the crimes
that take place every day any less real. The building behind me
brought the reality of crime close to home -- literally, right
next door. You know The Mohawk as a crime haven. A crack den.
Not as home -- but as a house of horror.
Some weekend nights, as many as 100 cars lined Swiss Avenue,
bringing customers in search of heroin and crack and marijuana.
Addicts used to roam this neighborhood, offering to do odd jobs
for 10 dollars -- the price of a crack high. One day, a
2
crackhead fired a gun at one of the neighbors sitting on their
front porch. And in two months' time last spring, police made
more than 200 arrests at this one address alone. //
But all that has changed -- changed the morning of June 5th,
the day U.S. Marshals and Dallas Police swept in and seized this
building. That day many of you came out to cheer -- to celebrate
the day law came back to this street.
Today, The Mohawk doesn't just have a history. It has a
future. //
But you know the change taking place here is just the
beginning. Each one of you is going to have to do your part in
taking back the streets and then keeping this community crime-
free. //
I'm here today to tell you, as President, we can help. The
key is a new approach -- one that combines a no-nonsense approach
to crime with social programs that promise real hope. We call
this new approach Weed and Seed.
Too often in the past we have pursued our social programs
and our law enforcement efforts on separate tracks. As a result,
many of our urban revitalization efforts are cut short by crime.
You know what I'm talking about: We build public housing
only to see these buildings taken over as crack houses.
We build model schools only to see them become war zones --
where fear follows teachers and students right into the
classroom.
3
We build playgrounds for children only to see them become
battlegrounds for drug pushers.
And when a neighborhood is overridden by crime, businesses
are driven away -- taking jobs and opportunities with them.
We're tackling each one of these problems with a new
approach we call Weed and Seed.
Weed and Seed is not so much a new spending program but a
whole new method of operating. / Here's how it works. As the
first step: federal, state and local law enforcement concentrate
their efforts on neighborhoods like this one. Working with you -
- the community -- they "weed out" the gangs, the criminals and
the crackheads and the drug dealers.
As the streets are reclaimed from the criminals, community
policing is put in place -- to help hold every inch of the ground
we've taken. Police commanders attend community meetings /
officers patrol neighborhoods on foot / and residents feel safe
knowing who is on the beat in their area.
Finally, the broad array of federal, state and local
government and private sector community revitalization programs
are brought to bear on the community -- to "seed in" long-term
stability, growth and opportunity. Drug prevention programs,
Head Start, job training, health care programs, community
development grants -- all are applied together -- in one place /
at one time / in a true working partnership with the community.
Weed and Seed is already up and running in Ft. Worth -- and
in 19 other cities across the country. / This year, I asked the
4
Congress for $500 million dollars to fund Weed and Seed programs
in 50 or more communities -- and I know East Dallas would like to
be one of them. Congress has appropriated the money -- but they
haven't authorized it. I wouldn't bother you with these fine
Congressional distinctions -- but I have to: Because until
Congress acts, Dallas -- or any American city for that matter --
won't get one single dollar of the aid it needs.
And sad to say, that's just part of a larger pattern of
inaction.
What you're doing here puts you on the side of the angels.
But you can't do it alone. You can't do it if the system mocks
the victims -- if criminals own the streets and law-abiding
citizens are prisoners in their own homes. //
If you work the late shift at the convenience store, you
shouldn't have to worry whether you'll be safe walking home. If
you're sitting on your porch, you shouldn't have to be on the
look-out for a carful of hoods with a gun. If you need to run
out for milk and bread late at night, you shouldn't have to worry
about who you'll run into at the corner of Swiss and Moreland.
This is your home. This is your community. The place your
children play. You deserve to be safe here. //
It pains me to say that, every day, we're being forced to
learn a new vocabulary for crime. Back in Washington, we've had
a wave of what they now call "carjackings": where a criminal
steals a car -- not when it's parked -- but when you're sitting
in a parking lot or waiting at a red light.
5
Just this month, carjackers stole the car of a woman taking
her small daughter to her first day of pre-school. They dragged
the woman to her death -- and tossed her baby onto the road. //
Something's wrong in our cities. Something is wrong in our
society -- when crimes like that are commonplace. //
Carjackers or crack dealers -- whatever the crime may be:
We've got. to draw the line. //
I'll say right here what I said earlier today in St. Louis.
Congress has sat on my crime package for 1201 days. One thousand
two hundred and one days. //
Congress says it won't move without gun control. Well, SO
be it: I will accept a gun control bill -- if -- if the Congress
passes my comprehensive crime package. //
Tough talk is not enough. We need more prisons, more police
-- more swift and certain punishment. We need a federal death
penalty for cop killers and drug kingpins. Tough new provisions
against sex crimes and domestic violence. We need to make
carjacking a federal offense / apply federal racketeering laws to
help us go after gangs / we need to strike a blow for
responsibility by using federal law to enforce child support
payments from all the deadbeat Dads. We need reforms to put a
stop to the endless appeals that make a mockery of justice for
the victims of crime -- reforms that slam shut the revolving-
door justice that far too often lets criminals go free. //
And let me say to the leaders who control the Congress: I
know you're planning on calling it quits for the year in early
6
October. But let's put those last few days to good use. Keep
the lights on late if you have to -- but pass my comprehensive
crime bill -- and pass it now. //
And if the liberal leaders of Congress come back at me and
say, "There's not enough time to act" -- let me tell them what's
been happening since the crime clock started ticking 1,201 days
ago.
In those 1201 days -- here in Dallas alone -- 1,441 people
have been murdered.
In those 1201 days -- 3,997 have been raped.
All told, in those 1201 days -- 79,903 people have been
victims of violent crime. //
Each one of those 1201 days, another innocent person becomes
a statistic. //
Well, we don't have another day to waste.
Let's get our cities and our citizens and our cops the help
they need -- the help they must have to drive crime and drugs off
our streets and out of our lives: Here in East Dallas, and all
across America. //
Thank you for this warm East Dallas welcome -- it's a
privilege to spend this time in your community. May God bless
you and the United States of America.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 25, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
STEVE PROVOST
FROM:
DAN MC GROARTY Dr.
SUBJECT:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
I. Summary
On Monday, September 28, at 2:45 p.m., you will deliver
remarks to approximately 1500 people gathered in front of The
Mohawk Apartment Building in East Dallas.
II. Discussion
Your remarks (12 minutes, on cards) highlight the East
Dallas Renaissance Project -- a local effort to turn around a
crime-ridden neighborhood. This community is preparing a Weed
and Seed application -- but will never see funding if Congress
does not pass authorizing legislation.
Additionally, you note your willingness to accept the Brady
Bill if Congress passes your comprehensive crime package.
McGroarty/Nix
September 25, 1992
8:00 p.m.
DALLAS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
2:45 P.M.
Thank you, , for those kind words -- and thanks, all of
you, for this warm welcome. [Acknowledgements]
I am delighted to be here today -- to salute all of you who
are helping take this community back -- helping make East Dallas
a safe place to live, to raise kids, to stake a claim on the
American Dream.
This community is one community that is breaking out of the
cycle of violence in America. In the past year, overall crime in
the city of Dallas is down 13.7%. Violent crime -- murder, rape,
robbery, assault -- has dropped 14.1%. //
That's good news that represents so many hours of hard work
for the Dallas police, for the Crime Watch groups like Mill Creek
and others all across Dallas. But it doesn't make the crimes
that take place every day any less real. The building behind me
brought the reality of crime close to home -- literally, right
next door. You know The Mohawk as a crime haven. A crack den.
Not as home -- but as a house of horror.
Some weekend nights, as many as 100 cars lined Swiss Avenue,
bringing customers in search of heroin and crack and marijuana.
Addicts used to roam this neighborhood, offering to do odd jobs
for 10 dollars -- the price of a crack high. One day, a
2
crackhead fired a gun at one of the neighbors sitting on their
front porch. And in two months' time last spring, police made
more than 200 arrests at this one address alone. //
But all that has changed -- changed the morning of June 5th,
the day U.S. Marshals and Dallas Police swept in and seized this
building. That day many of you came out to cheer -- to celebrate
the day law came back to this street.
Today, The Mohawk doesn't just have a history. It has a
future. //
But you know the change taking place here is just the
beginning. Each one of you is going to have to do your part in
taking back the streets and then keeping this community crime-
free. //
I'm here today to tell you, as President, we can help. The
key is a new approach -- one that combines a no-nonsense approach
to crime with social programs that promise real hope. We call
this new approach Weed and Seed.
Too often in the past we have pursued our social programs
and our law enforcement efforts on separate tracks. As a result,
many of our urban revitalization efforts are cut short by crime.
You know what I'm talking about: We build public housing
only to see these buildings taken over as crack houses.
We build model schools only to see them become war zones --
where fear follows teachers and students right into the
classroom.
3
We build playgrounds for children only to see them become
battlegrounds for drug pushers.
And when a neighborhood is overridden by crime, businesses
are driven away -- taking jobs and opportunities with them.
We're tackling each one of these problems with a new
approach we call Weed and Seed.
Weed and Seed is not so much a new spending program but a
whole new method of operating. / Here's how it works. As the
first step: federal, state and local law enforcement concentrate
their efforts on neighborhoods like this one. Working with you -
- the community -- they "weed out" the gangs, the criminals and
the crackheads and the drug dealers.
As the streets are reclaimed from the criminals, community
policing is put in place -- to help hold every inch of the ground
we've taken. Police commanders attend community meetings /
officers patrol neighborhoods on foot / and residents feel safe
knowing who is on the beat in their area.
Finally, the broad array of federal, state and local
government and private sector community revitalization programs
are brought to bear on the community -- to "seed in" long-term
stability, growth and opportunity. Drug prevention programs,
Head Start, job training, health care programs, community
development grants -- all are applied together -- in one place /
at one time / in a true working partnership with the community.
Weed and Seed is already up and running in Ft. Worth -- and
in 19 other cities across the country. / This year, I asked the
4
Congress for $500 million dollars to fund Weed and Seed programs
in 50 or more communities -- and I know East Dallas would like to
be one of them. Congress has appropriated the money -- but they
haven't authorized it. I wouldn't bother you with these fine
Congressional distinctions -- but I have to: Because until
Congress acts, Dallas -- or any American city for that matter
won't get one single dollar of the aid it needs.
And sad to say, that's just part of a larger pattern of
inaction.
What you're doing here puts you on the side of the angels.
But you can't do it alone. You can't do it if the system mocks
the victims -- if criminals own the streets and law-abiding
citizens are prisoners in their own homes.
//
If you work the late shift at the convenience store, you
shouldn't have to worry whether you'll be safe walking home. If
you're sitting on your porch, you shouldn't have to be on the
look-out for a carful of hoods with a gun. If you need to run
out for milk and bread late at night, you shouldn't have to worry
about who you'll run into at the corner of Swiss and Moreland.
This is your home. This is your community. The place your
children play. You deserve to be safe here. //
It pains me to say that, every day, we're being forced to
learn a new vocabulary for crime. Back in Washington, we've had
a wave of what they now call "carjackings": where a criminal
steals a car -- not when it's parked -- but when you're sitting
in a parking lot or waiting at a red light.
5
Just this month, carjackers stole the car of a woman taking
her small daughter to her first day of pre-school. They dragged
the woman to her death -- and tossed her baby onto the road. 11
Something's wrong in our cities. Something is wrong in our
society -- when crimes like that are commonplace. //
Carjackers or crack dealers -- whatever the crime may be:
We've got to draw the line. //
I'll say right here what I said earlier today in St. Louis.
Congress has sat on my crime package for 1201 days. One thousand
two hundred and one days. //
Congress says it won't move without gun control. Well, SO
be it: I will accept a gun control bill -- if -- if the Congress
passes my comprehensive crime package. //
Tough talk is not enough. We need more prisons, more police
-- more swift and certain punishment. We need a federal death
penalty for cop killers and drug kingpins. Tough new provisions
against sex crimes and domestic violence. We need to make
carjacking a federal offense / apply federal racketeering laws to
help us go after gangs / we need to strike a blow for
responsibility by using federal law to enforce child support
payments from all the deadbeat Dads. We need reforms to put a
stop to the endless appeals that make a mockery of justice for
the victims of crime -- reforms that slam shut the revolving-
door justice that far too often lets criminals go free. //
And let me say to the leaders who control the Congress: I
know you're planning on calling it quits for the year in early
6
October. But let's put those last few days to good use. Keep
the lights on late if you have to -- but pass my comprehensive
crime bill -- and pass it now. //
And if the liberal leaders of Congress come back at me and
say, "There's not enough time to act" -- let me tell them what's
been happening since the crime clock started ticking 1,201 days
ago.
In those 1201 days -- here in Dallas alone -- 1,441 people
have been murdered.
In those 1201 days -- 3,997 have been raped.
All told, in those 1201 days -- 79,903 people have been
victims of violent crime. //
Each one of those 1201 days, another innocent person becomes
a statistic. //
Well, we don't have another day to waste.
Let's get our cities and our citizens and our cops the help
they need -- the help they must have to drive crime and drugs off
our streets and out of our lives: Here in East Dallas, and all
across America. //
Thank you for this warm East Dallas welcome -- it's a
privilege to spend this time in your community. May God bless
you and the United States of America.
#
#
#
352642SS
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
9/25/92
92 SEP 28 A8: 45
5:00PM, TODAY, SEPT. 25
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SUBJECT:
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992, MONDAY
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
MOORE
SCOWCROFT
MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
KAUFMAN
GRAY
GROOMES
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
HORNER
REMARKS:
Please provide comments on the attached directly
to Dan McGroarty, Rm. 122, x2930, with a copy to
this office NO LATER THAN 5:00PM, TODAY, SEPTEMBER 25.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
See comments
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Nix
September 25, 1992
12:30 p.m.
DALLAS
2 SET 25 P2: 17
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
TIME??
Thank you,
for those kind words -- and thanks, all of
you, for this warm welcome. [Acknowledgements]
I am delighted to be here today -- to salute all of you
who're helping take this community back -- helping make East
Dallas a safe place to live, to raise kids, to stake a claim on
the American Dream.
This community is one community that is breaking out of the
cycle of violence in America. In the past year, overall crime in
the city of Dallas is down 13.7%. Violent crime -- murder, rape,
robbery, assault -- has dropped 14.1%. 11
That's good news that represents so many hours of hard work
for the Dallas police, for the Crime Watch groups like [Mill
Creek] and others all across Dallas. But it doesn't make the
crimes that take place every day any less real. The building
behind me brought the reality of crime close to home --
literally, right next door. You know The Mohawk as a crime
haven. A crack den. Not as home -- but as a house of horror.
Some nights, as many as 100 cars lined Swiss Street,
bringing customers in search of heroin and crack cocaine and
marijuana. Addicts used to roam this neighborhood, offering to
do odd jobs for 10 dollars -- the price of a crack high. One
HIM FURCE UNE
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:08
PG.03
2
day, a crackhead fired a gun at one of the neighbors sitting on
their front porch. And in two months' time last spring, police
made more than 200 arrests at this one address alone. //
But all that has changed -- changed the morning of August
XX, the day U.S. Marshals swept in and seized this building.
That day hundreds of you came out to cheer -- to celebrate the
day law came back to this street.
Today, the Mohawk doesn't just have a history. It has a
future. 11
But you know the change taking place here is just the
beginning. Each one of you is going to have to do your part. in
taking back the streets and then keeping this community crime-
free. 11
I'm here today to tell you, as President, I'm doing more
than just sympathize. We can help. The key is a new approach -
- one that combines a no-nonsense approach to crime with social
programs that promise real hope. We call this new approach Weed
and Seed.
Too often in the past we have pursued our social programs
and our law enforcement efforts on separate tracks. As a result,
many of our urban revitalization efforts are cut short by crime.
You know what I'm talking about: We build public housing
only to see these buildings taken over as crack houses.
We build model schools only to see them become war zones --
where fear follows teachers and students right into the
classroom.
Comments trom OMB on Crime Event
3
we build playgrounds for children only to ... them become
battlegrounds for drug pushers.
And when a neighborhood is overridden by crime, businesses
are driven away -- taking jobs and opportunities with them.
We're tackling each one of these problems with a new
approach we call Waed and Sand.
Weed and Seed is not so much - new spending program but a
whole new method of operating. / Here's how it works. As the
first step: federal, state and local law enforcement concentrate
their efforts on neighborhoods like this one. Working with you -
- the community -- they "weed out" the gangs, the criminals and
the crackheads and drug dealers.
As the streets are reclaimed from the criminals, community
policing is put in place -- to help hold every inch of the ground
we've taken. Police commenders attend community meetings /
officers patrol neighborhoods on foot / and residents feel safe
knowing who is on the beat in their area.
Finally, the broad array of federal, state and local
government and private sector community revitelization programs
are brought to bear on the community -- to "seed in" long-term
stability, growth and opportunity. Drug prevention programs,
Head Start, job training, health care programs, community
development grants -- all are applied together -- in one place /
at one time / in a true working partnership with the community.
Weed and Seed is already up and running in Ft. Worth -- and
in 20 other cities across the country. / This year, I asked the
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authorized it. I wouldn't bother you with these fine
Congressional distinctions :- but I have to: Because until
Congress acts, Dallas -- or any American city for thet matter --
won't get one single dollar of the aid you need.
And sad to say, that's just part of a larger pattern of
inaction.
what you're doing here puts you on the side of the angels.
But you can't do it alone. You can't do it if the system mecks
the victims. :- if criminals own the streets and law-abiding
citizens are prisoners in their own homes. 11
If you work the late shift at the convenience store, you
shouldn't have to worry whether you'll be safe walking home. If
you're sitting on your porch, you shouldn't have to be on the
look-out for a carful of hoods with a gun. If you need to run
out for milk and bread late at night, you shouldn't have to worry
about who you'll run into at the corner of Swiss and Moreland.
This 18 your home. This is your community. The place your
children play. YOU deserve to be safe here. "
It pains me to say that, every day, we're being forced to
learn a new vocabulary for crime. Back in Washington, we've had
a wave of what they now call "carjeckings:" where a criminal
steals a car -- not when it's parked -- but when you're sitting
in & parking lot or waiting at a red light -- with you in it.
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Just this month, carjackers stole the car of & woman taking
her small daughter to her first day of nursery school. They
dragged the women to her death -- and tossed her baby out the
window. "
Something's wrong in our cities. Something is wrong in our
society -- when crimes like that are commenplace. "
Carjeckers or crack dealers -- whatever the crime may be:
Wa've got to draw the line. "
I'll say right here what I said earlier today in St. Louis.
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two hundred and fifteen days. "
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And let me say to the leaders who control the Congress: I
know you're planning on calling it quits for the year in early
October. But let's put those last few days to good use. Keep
the lights on late if you have to -- but pass my comprehensive
crime bill -- and pass it now. 11
And if the liberal leaders of Congress come back at me and
say, "There": not enough Lime to all" -- 1EL me Lell them what's
been happening since the crime clock started ticking 1,215 days
ago.
In those 1215 days -- here in Dallas alone -- [xxx] people
have been murdered.
In those 1215 days -- [xxx] have been raped.
In those 1215 days -- [xxxx] innocent people have been
victims of violent crime. 11
Each one of those 1215 days, another innocent person becomes
a statistic. / /
Well, we don't have another day to waste.
Let's get our cities and our citizens and our cops the help
they need -- the help they must have to drive crime and drugs off
our streets and out of our lives: Here in East Dallas, and all
across America. 11
Thank you for this warm East Dallas welcome -- it's a
privilege to spend this time in your community. May God bless
the United States of America.
#
#
Ross
McGroarty/Nix
September 25, 1992
12:30 p.m.
DALLAS
2 23 P2:17
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
TIME??
Thank you,
,
for those kind words -- and thanks, all of
you, for this warm welcome. [Acknowledgements]
I am delighted to be here today -- to salute all of you
who're helping take this community back -- helping make East
Dallas a safe place to live, to raise kids, to stake a claim on
the American Dream.
This community is one community that is breaking out of the
cycle of violence in America. In the past year, overall crime in
the city of Dallas is down 13.7%. Violent crime -- murder, rape,
robbery, assault -- has dropped 14.1%. //
That's good news that represents so many hours of hard work
for the Dallas police, for the Crime Watch groups like [Mill
Creek] and others all across Dallas. But it doesn't make the
crimes that take place every day any less real. The building
behind me brought the reality of crime close to home --
literally, right next door. You know The Mohawk as a crime
haven. A crack den. Not as home -- but as a house of horror.
Some nights, as many as 100 cars lined Swiss Street,
bringing customers in search of heroin and crack cocaine and
marijuana. Addicts used to roam this neighborhood, offering to
do odd jobs for 10 dollars -- the price of a crack high. One
2
day, a crackhead fired a gun at one of the neighbors sitting on
their front porch. And in two months' time last spring, police
made more than 200 arrests at this one address alone. //
But all that has changed -- changed the morning of August
XX, the day U.S. Marshals swept in and seized this building.
That day hundreds of you came out to cheer -- to celebrate the
day law came back to this street.
Today, the Mohawk doesn't just have a history. It has a
future. 11
But you know the change taking place here is just the
beginning. Each one of you is going to have to do your part. in
taking back the streets and then keeping this community crime-
free. 11
I'm here today to tell you, as President, I'm doing more
too
detensive
than just sympathize. We can help. The key is a new approach -
- one that combines a no-nonsense approach to crime with social
programs that promise real hope. We call this new approach Weed
and Seed.
Too often in the past we have pursued our social programs
and our law enforcement efforts on separate tracks. As a result,
many of our urban revitalization efforts are cut short by crime.
You know what I'm talking about: We build public housing
only to see these buildings taken over as crack houses.
We build model schools only to see them become war zones --
where fear follows teachers and students right into the
classroom.
FMI SEP 32 17:09
PG.04
3
We build playgrounds for children only to see them become
battlegrounds for drug pushers.
And when a neighborhood is overridden by crime, businesses
are driven away -- taking jobs and opportunities with them.
We're tackling each one of these problems with a new
approach we call Weed and Seed.
Weed and Seed is not so much a new spending program but a
whole new method of operating. / Here's how it works. As the
first step: federal, state and local law enforcement concentrate
their efforts on neighborhoods like this one. Working with you -
- the community -- they "weed out" the gangs, the criminals and
the crackheads and drug dealers.
As the streets are reclaimed from the criminals, community
policing is put in place -- to help hold every inch of the ground
we've taken. Police commanders attend community meetings /
officers patrol neighborhoods on foot / and residents feel safe
knowing who is on the beat in their area.
Finally, the broad array of federal, state and local
government and private sector community revitalization programs
are brought to bear on the community -- to "seed in" long-term
stability, growth and opportunity. Drug prevention programs,
Head Start, job training, health care programs, community
development grants -- all are applied together -- in one place /
at one time / in a true working partnership with the community.
Weed and Seed is already up and running in Ft. Worth -- and
in 20 other cities across the country. / This year, I asked the
HIM
une
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:09
PG.05
4
Congress for $500 million dollars to fund Weed and Seed programs
in 30 more communities -- and I know East Dallas would like to be
one of them. They've appropriated the money -- but they haven't
authorized it. I wouldn't bother you with these fine
Congressional distinctions -- but I have to: Because until
Congress acts, Dallas -- or any American city for that matter --
won't get one single dollar of the aid you need.
And sad to say, that's just part of a larger pattern of
inaction.
what you're doing here puts you on the side of the angels.
But you can't do it alone. You can't do it if the system mocks
the victims -- if criminals own the streets and law-abiding
citizens are prisoners in their own homes. 11
If you work the late shift at the convenience store, you
shouldn't have to worry whether you'll be safe walking home. If
you're sitting on your porch, you shouldn't have to be on the
look-out for a carful of hoods with a gun. If you need to run
out for milk and bread late at night, you shouldn't have to worry
about who you'll run into at the corner of Swiss and Moreland.
This is your home. This is your community. The place your
children play. You deserve to be safe here. 11
It pains me to say that, every day, we're being forced to
learn a new vocabulary for crime. Back in Washington, we've had
a wave of what they now call "carjackings:" where a criminal
steals a car -- not when it's parked -- but when you're sitting
in a parking lot or waiting at a red light -- with you in it.
win
FRI
20
96
10
PG.00
5
Just this month, carjackers stole the car of a woman taking
her small daughter to her first day of nursery school. They
dragged the woman to her death -- and tossed her baby out the
window. 11
Something's wrong in our cities. Something is wrong in our
society -- when crimes like that are commonplace. 11
Carjackers or crack dealers -- whatever the crime may be:
We've got to draw the line. 11
I'll say right here what I said earlier today in St. Louis.
Congress has sat on my crime package for 1215 days. One thousand
two hundred and fifteen days. 11
Congress says it won't move without gun control. Well, so
be it: I will accept a gun control bill -- if -- if the Congress
passes my comprehensive crime package. 11
Tough talk is not enough. We need more prisons, more police
-- more swift and certain punishment. We need a federal death
penalty for cop killers and drug kingpins. Tough new provisions
against sex crimes and domestic violence. We need to make
carjacking a federal offense / apply federal racketeering laws to
help us go after gangs / we need to strike a blow for
responsibility by using federal law to enforce child support
payments from all the deadbeat Dads. We need reforms to put a
stop to the endless appeals that make a mockery of justice for
the victims of crime -- reforms that slam shut the revolving-
door justice that far too often lets criminals go free. 11
AIR FORCE ONE
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:11.
PG.07
6
And let me say to the leaders who control the Congress: I
know you're planning on calling it quits for the year in early
October. But let's put those last few days to good use. Keep
the lights on late if you have to -- but pass my comprehensive
crime bill -- and pass it now. 11
And if the liberal leaders of Congress come back at me and
say, "There's not enough Lime LU all" -- 1eL me Lell them what's
been happening since the crime clock started ticking 1,215 days
ago.
In those 1215 days -- here in Dallas alone -- [xxx] people
have been murdered.
In those 1215 days -- [xxx] have been raped.
In those 1215 days -- [xxxx] innocent people have been
victims of violent crime. 11
Each one of those 1215 days, another innocent person becomes
a statistic. //
Well, we don't have another day to waste.
Let's get our cities and our citizens and our cops the help
they need -- the help they must have to drive crime and drugs off
our streets and out of our lives: Here in East Dallas, and all
across America. 11
Thank you for this warm East Dallas welcome -- it's a
privilege to spend this time in your community. May God bless
the United States of America.
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Mashington, D. C. 20530
September 25, 1992
MEMORANDUM TO:
Paul Korfonta
FROM:
Julie Samuels
gas
Assistant to the Attorney General
SUBJECT:
Comments on Presidential Remarks: East
Dallas Community Crime Event, Dallas Texas
We have several technical comments on the draft remarks.
Based on our conversation earlier today, we have not verified
most of the numbers in the speech. As noted in our last point
below, we do not clear the section at the end of the speech,
related to the crime bill, because we expect changes to be made
in the next few days.
P. 2, second and third line. The sentence as written is
inaccurate. We suggest: "And in one day last spring, police
made more than 100 arrests at this one address alone." (This info
comes from Ed Spencer at the Dallas Police Department. We
understand that he has been contacted by Michelle in Research.)
p. 3, last line. change "20" to #19."
p.4, second line. Change #30" to "50 or more." DOJ originated
the "30" figure, and now believes it should be raised to 50 or
more.
p.5, first paragraph. Check the facts on the Savage, Maryland
carjacking. Change "window" to "car." (The toddler was thrown
out of the car in her carseat, which wouldn't fit through the
window.)
pp.5-6, regarding the crime bill. We do not clear this section
of the remarks. We expect that this section of the speech, as
well as the entire Missouri speech, will be subject to change
this weekend. Please send the revised version of the speech to
Paul McNulty, fax number 514-2424. You can reach Paul through
the Command Center.
Davnan
Pg 3
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19
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DARMAN
McGroarty/Nix
September 25, 1992
12:30 p.m.
DALLAS
23 P2:17
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
TIME??
Thank you,
,
for those kind words -- and thanks, all of
you, for this warm welcome. [Acknowledgements]
I am delighted to be here today -- to salute all of you
who're helping take this community back -- helping make East
Dallas a safe place to live, to raise kids, to stake a claim on
the American Dream.
This community is one community that is breaking out of the
cycle of violence in America. In the past year, overall crime in
the city of Dallas is down 13.7%. Violent crime -- murder, rape,
robbery, assault -- has dropped 14.1%. 11
That's good news that represents so many hours of hard work
for the Dallas police, for the Crime Watch groups like [Mill
Creek] and others all across Dallas. But it doesn't make the
crimes that take place every day any less real. The building
behind me brought the reality of crime close to home --
literally, right next door. You know The Mohawk as a crime
haven. A crack den. Not as home -- but as a house of horror.
Some nights, as many as 100 cars lined Swiss Street,
bringing customers in search of heroin and crack cocaine and
marijuana. Addicts used to roam this neighborhood, offering to
do odd jobs for 10 dollars -- the price of a crack high. One
2
day, a crackhead fired a gun at one of the neighbors sitting on
their front porch. And in two months' time last spring, police
made more than 200 arrests at this one address alone. 11
But all that has changed -- changed the morning of August
XX, the day U.S. Marshals swept in and seized this building.
That day hundreds of you came out to cheer -- to celebrate the
day law came back to this street.
Today, the Mohawk doesn't just have a history. It has a
future. 11
But you know the change taking place here is just the
beginning. Each one of you is going to have to do your part in
taking back the streets and then keeping this community crime-
free. 11
I'm here today to tell you, as President, I'm doing more
than just sympathize. We can help. The key is a new approach -
- one that combines a no-nonsense approach to crime with social
programs that promise real hope. We call this new approach Weed
and Seed.
Too often in the past we have pursued our social programs
and our law enforcement efforts on separate tracks. As a result,
many of our urban revitalization efforts are cut short by crime.
You know what I'm talking about: We build public housing
only to see these buildings taken over as crack houses.
We build model schools only to see them become war zones --
where fear follows teachers and students right into the
classroom.
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:09
PG.04
3
We build playgrounds for children only to see them become
battlegrounds for drug pushers.
And when a neighborhood is overridden by crime, businesses
are driven away -- taking jobs and opportunities with them.
We're tackling each one of these problems with a new
approach we call Weed and Seed.
Weed and Seed is not so much a new spending program but a
whole new method of operating. / Here's how it works. As the
first step: federal, state and local law enforcement concentrate
their efforts on neighborhoods like this one. Working with you -
- the community -- they "weed out" the gangs, the criminals and
the crackheads and drug dealers.
As the streets are reclaimed from the criminals, community
policing is put in place -- to help hold every inch of the ground
we've taken. Police commanders attend community meetings /
officers patrol neighborhoods on foot / and residents feel safe
knowing who is on the beat in their area.
Finally, the broad array of federal, state and local
government and private sector community revitalization programs
are brought to bear on the community -- to "seed in" long-term
stability, growth and opportunity. Drug prevention programs,
Head Start, job training, health care programs, community
development grants -- all are applied together -- in one place /
at one time / in a true working partnership with the community.
Weed and Seed is already up and running in Ft. Worth -- and
in 20 other cities across the country. / This year, I asked the
19
HIR unc
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:09
PG.05
4
Congress for $500 million dollars to fund Weed and Seed programs
no less than
in 30 more communities -- and I know East Dallas would like to be
^
one of them. They've appropriated the money -- but they haven't
authorized it. I wouldn't bother you with these fine
Congressional distinctions -- but I have to: Because until
Congress acts, Dallas -- or any American city for that matter --
won't get one single dollar of the aid you need.
And sad to say, that's just part of a larger pattern of
inaction.
what you're doing here puts you on the side of the angels.
But you can't do it alone. You can't do it if the system mocks
the victims -- if criminals own the streets and law-abiding
citizens are prisoners in their own homes. 11
If you work the late shift at the convenience store, you
shouldn't have to worry whether you'll be safe walking home. If
you' sitting on your porch, you shouldn't have to be on the
look-out for a carful of hoods with a gun. If you need to run
out for milk and bread late at night, you shouldn't have to worry
about who you'll run into at the corner of Swiss and Moreland.
This is your home. This is your community. The place your
children play. You deserve to be safe here. 11
It pains me to say that, every day, we're being forced to
learn a new vocabulary for crime. Back in Washington, we've had
a wave of what they now call "carjackings:" where a criminal
steals a car -- not when it's parked -- but when you're sitting
in a parking lot or waiting at a red light -- with you in it.
If
10
5
Just this month, carjackers stole the car of a woman taking
her small daughter to her first day of nursery school. They
dragged the woman to her death -- and tossed her baby out the
window. 11
Something's wrong in our cities. Something is wrong in our
society -- when crimes like that are commonplace. 11
Carjackers or crack dealers -- whatever the crime may be:
We've got to draw the line. 11
I'll say right here what I said earlier today in St. Louis.
Congress has sat on my crime package for 1215 days. One thousand
two hundred and fifteen days. 11
Congress says it won't move without gun control. Well, so
be it: I will accept a gun control bill -- if -- if the Congress
passes my comprehensive crime package. 11
Tough talk is not enough. We need more prisons, more police
-- more swift and certain punishment. We need a federal death
penalty for cop killers and drug kingpins. Tough new provisions
against sex crimes and domestic violence. We need to make
carjacking a federal offense / apply federal racketeering laws to
help us go after gangs / we need to strike a blow for
responsibility by using federal law to enforce child support
payments from all the deadbeat Dads. We need reforms to put a
stop to the endless appeals that make a mockery of justice for
the victims of crime -- reforms that slam shut the revolving-
door justice that far too often lets criminals go free. //
AIR FORCE ONE
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:11
PG.07
6
And let me say to the leaders who control the Congress: I
know you're planning on calling it quits for the year in early
October. But let's put those last few days to good use. Keep
the lights on late if you have to -- but pass my comprehensive
crime bill -- and pass it now. 11
And if the liberal leaders of Congress come back at me and
say, "There not enough Lime LU all" -- lel me Lell them what's
been happening since the crime clock started ticking 1,215 days
ago.
In those 1215 days -- here in Dallas alone -- [xxx] people
have been murdered.
In those 1215 days -- [xxx] have been raped.
In those 1215 days -- [xxxx] innocent people have been
victims of violent crime. 11
Each one of those 1215 days, another innocent person becomes
a statistic. //
Well, we don't have another day to waste.
Let's get our cities and our citizens and our cops the help
they need -- the help they must have to drive crime and drugs off
our streets and out of our lives: Here in East Dallas, and all
across America. 11
Thank you for this warm East Dallas welcome -- it's a
privilege to spend this time in your community. May God bless
the United States of America.
#
McGroarty/Nix
September 25, 1992
12:30 p.m.
25 P2: 11
DALLAS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
TIME??
Thank you,
,
for those kind words -- and thanks, all of
you, for this warm welcome. [Acknowledgements]
I am delighted to be here today -- to salute all of you
who're helping take this community back -- helping make East
Dallas a safe place to live, to raise kids, to stake a claim on
the American Dream.
This community is one community that is breaking out of the
cycle of violence in America. In the past year, overall crime in
the city of Dallas is down 13.7%. Violent crime -- murder, rape,
robbery, assault -- has dropped 14.1%. 11
That's good news that represents so many hours of hard work
for the Dallas police, for the Crime Watch groups like [Mill
Creek] and others all across Dallas. But it doesn't make the
crimes that take place every day any less real. The building
behind me brought the reality of crime close to home --
literally, right next door. You know The Mohawk as a crime
haven. A crack den. Not as home -- but as a house of horror.
Some nights, as many as 100 cars lined Swiss Street,
bringing customers in search of heroin and crack cocaine and
marijuana. Addicts used to roam this neighborhood, offering to
do odd jobs for 10 dollars -- the price of a crack high. One
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:08
PG.03
2
day, a crackhead fired a gun at one of the neighbors sitting on
their front porch. And in two months' time last spring, police
made more than 200 arrests at this one address alone. 11
But all that has changed -- changed the morning of August
XX, the day U.S. Marshals swept in and seized this building.
That day hundreds of you came out to cheer -- to celebrate the
day law came back to this street.
Today, the Mohawk doesn't just have a history. It has a
future. 11
But you know the change taking place here is just the
beginning. Each one of you is going to have to do your part. in
taking back the streets and then keeping this community crime-
free. 11
I'm here today to tell you, as President, I'm doing more
than just sympathize. We can help. The key is a new approach -
- one that combines a no-nonsense approach to crime with social
programs that promise real hope. We call this new approach Weed
and Seed.
Too often in the past we have pursued our social programs
and our law enforcement efforts on separate tracks. As a result,
many of our urban revitalization efforts are cut short by crime.
You know what I'm talking about: We build public housing
only to see these buildings taken over as crack houses.
We build model schools only to see them become war zones
where fear follows teachers and students right into the
classroom.
FURCE UNE
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:09
PG.04
3
We build playgrounds for children only to see them become
battlegrounds for drug pushers.
And when a neighborhood is overridden by crime, businesses
are driven away -- taking jobs and opportunities with them.
We're tackling each one of these problems with a new
approach we call Weed and Seed.
Weed and Seed is not so much a new spending program but a
whole new method of operating. / Here's how it works. As the
first step: federal, state and local law enforcement concentrate
their efforts on neighborhoods like this one. Working with you -
- the community -- they "weed out" the gangs, the criminals and
the crackheads and drug dealers.
As the streets are reclaimed from the criminals, community
policing is put in place -- to help hold every inch of the ground
we've taken. Police commanders attend community meetings /
officers patrol neighborhoods on foot / and residents feel safe
knowing who is on the beat in their area.
Finally, the broad array of federal, state and local
government and private sector community revitalization programs
are brought to bear on the community -- to "seed in" long-term
stability, growth and opportunity. Drug prevention programs,
Head Start, job training, health care programs, community
development grants -- all are applied together -- in one place
/
at one time / in a true working partnership with the community.
Weed and Seed is already up and running in Ft. Worth -- and
in 20 other cities across the country. / This year, I asked the
HIA FURCE UNE
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:09
PG.05
4
Congress for $500 million dollars to fund Weed and Seed programs
in 30 more communities -- and I know East Dallas would like to be
one of them. They've appropriated the money -- but they haven't
authorized it. I wouldn't bother you with these fine
Congressional distinctions -- but I have to: Because until
Congress acts, Dallas -- or any American city for that matter
--
won't get one single dollar of the aid you need.
And sad to say, that's just part of a larger pattern of
inaction.
What you're doing here puts you on the side of the angels.
But you can't do it alone. You can't do it if the system mocks
the victims -- if criminals own the streets and law-abiding
citizens are prisoners in their own homes. 11
If you work the late shift at the convenience store, you
shouldn't have to worry whether you'll be safe walking home. If
you're sitting on your porch, you shouldn't have to be on the
look-out for a carful of hoods with a gun. If you need to run
out for milk and bread late at night, you shouldn't have to worry
about who you'll run into at the corner of Swiss and Moreland.
This is your home. This is your community. The place your
children play. You deserve to be safe here. 11
It pains me to say that, every day, we're being forced to
learn a new vocabulary for crime. Back in Washington, we've had
a wave of what they now call "carjackings:" where a criminal
steals a car -- not when it's parked -- but when you're sitting
in a parking lot or waiting at a red light -- with you in it.
AIR FORCE ONE
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:10
PG.06
5
Just this month, carjackers stole the car of a woman taking
her small daughter to her first day of nursery school. They
dragged the woman to her death -- and tossed her baby out the
window. 11
Something's wrong in our cities. Something is wrong in our
society -- when crimes like that are commonplace. 11
Carjackers or crack dealers -- whatever the crime may be:
We've got to draw the line. 11
I'll say right here what I said earlier today in St. Louis.
Congress has sat on my crime package for 1215 days. One thousand
two hundred and fifteen days. 11
Congress says it won't move without gun control. Well, so
be it: I will accept a gun control bill -- if -- if the Congress
passes my comprehensive crime package. //
Tough talk is not enough. We need more prisons, more police
-- more swift and certain punishment. We need a federal death
penalty for cop killers and drug kingpins. Tough new provisions
against sex crimes and domestic violence. We need to make
carjacking a federal offense / apply federal racketeering laws to
help us go after gangs / we need to strike a blow for
responsibility by using federal law to enforce child support
payments from all the deadbeat Dads. We need reforms to put a
stop to the endless appeals that make a mockery of justice for
the victims of crime -- reforms that slam shut the revolving-
door justice that far too often lets criminals go free. //
AIR FORCE ONE
FRI 25 SEP 92 17:11
PG.07
6
And let me say to the leaders who control the Congress: I
know you're planning on calling it quits for the year in early
October. But let's put those last few days to good use. Keep
the lights on late if you have to -- but pass my comprehensive
crime bill -- and pass it now. 11
And if the liberal leaders of Congress come back at me and
say, "There's not enough Lime LU all" -- 1el me Lell them what's
been happening since the crime clock started ticking 1,215 days
ago.
In those 1215 days -- here in Dallas alone -- [xxx] people
have been murdered.
In those 1215 days -- [xxx] have been raped.
In those 1215 days -- [xxxx] innocent people have been
victims of violent crime. 11
Each one of those 1215 days, another innocent person becomes
a statistic. 11
Well, we don't have another day to waste.
Let's get our cities and our citizens and our cops the help
they need -- the help they must have to drive crime and drugs off
our streets and out of our lives: Here in East Dallas, and all
across America. 11
Thank you for this warm East Dallas welcome -- it's a
privilege to spend this time in your community. May God bless
the United States of America.
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Dallas, Texas)
For Immediate Release
September 28, 1992
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT EAST DALLAS RENAISSANCE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT WELCOME
Dallas, Texas
2:45 P.M. CDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. And I love what
Michael Fells said about his house. That's the way we all ought
to feel about our homes. And I was very proud of that.
(Applause.)
And thanks to all of you for this great Dallas
welcome. May I salute your wonderful Mayor, and old friend of
mine and Barbara's -- Steve Bartlett -- doing an outstanding job
for this wonderful area, this wonderful city. (Applause.) And
also I want to salute Judge Lee Jackson and your Congressman -- a
Congressman -- not this district, but right next door, Sam
Johnson, doing a fine job for Dallas. (Applause.) And may I
salute our sheriff, Sheriff Bowles; and our new police chief from
Dallas -- been here a while, doing a great job with the law
enforcement community -- Chief Bill Rathburn over here.
(Applause.)
And while I'm in the neighborhood, I want to
recognize Meadows Foundation for their work, restoring homes,
restoring hope in this community. And I saw a little bit of that
when Steven here and Dirk and Cheryl -- Cheryl Harley -- showed
me around this house that they are fixing to restore. so I'm
just delighted to be here. Also pleased to welcome a cross-town
guest from West Dallas, Mr. Artrous Hill, who for 41 years ran
the barber shop on Puget street. And when the drug epidemic came
to West Dallas, Mr. Hill's landlords were the local crack dealers
until U.S. marshals and the Dallas police put them out of
business.
Q
Chicken George, why don't you debate?
THE PRESIDENT: (Laughter.) Listen to this guy.
There are going to be debates.
May I say a word about the chicken question? May I
say a word about -- you're talking about the draft record chicken
or are you talking about the chicken in the Arkansas River?
(Applause.) Which one are you talking about? Which one? Get
out of here. (Applause.) Maybe it's the draft -- is that what S
bothering you?
All right now. As I was saying before being so
rudely interrupted -- (applause) -- I was telling about Mr. Hill
who owns his own barber shop. And his West Dallas neighborhood
is on the way back -- on the way back just the way all of you
here in East Dallas are on the move forward.
You know, I came here to talk about the progress
we're making in our quest to make America more safe and secure.
But first let me just say a word about the dominant issue in this
campaign, and that's the economy.
The American voter this year is confronted with two
choices. Two candidates with two very different economic
strategies. And if Governor Clinton is elected, by next year we
will have hundreds of billions of new government spending, higher
MORE
- 2 -
taxes on the middle class, and no restraints on federal spending,
and even more pressure on the federal deficit.
So Governor Clinton claims he knows a way to reduce
the budget deficit by increasing taxes on the middle class and
giving Congress more of your money to spend. And I believe the
way to reduce the deficit is by making tough choices and cutting
government spending. (Applause.)
And that's why we put forward a plan, a serious
program to control the growth of spending with almost $300
billion in savings over five years. And I've gone on the record,
targeted 246 programs, 4,000 wasteful projects that I want to
eliminate all together. And I want to use these savings to
reduce the deficit, to reduce the tax burden on the working men
and women, and still do what's right by our neighborhoods.
(Applause.)
You know, this is a tough time for the world
economy. But the brighter days are right here around the corner,
and America can and will lead the way forward if we make the
right choices this November.
Whether it's the building of a strong economy, or
strengthening our families, or keeping our streets safe, I put my
trust in the people. And that's why I am delighted to be here
today to salute all of you for helping take this community back;
helping make East Dallas a safe place to live, to raise kids, to
stake a claim on the American Dream. (Applause.)
The neighbors we've seen and the neighbors I've
heard from I don't care about the politics -- they are doing
what is right. They are here to help build a neighborhood and
protect their homes. Now, this community is one community that
is breaking out of the cycle of violence in America.
You know, in the past year, overall crime in the
city of Dallas is down 13.7 percent. Violent crime -- murder,
rape, robbery, assault -- has dropped 14.1 percent. And that is
good news. And it represents thousands of hours of hard work for
the Dallas police, for the Sheriff's Department, for the Crime
watch groups like Mill Creek and others all across Dallas. And
you deserve to be congratulated -- right there. (Applause.)
But it does not make the crimes that take place
every day any less real. The building behind us here brought the
reality of crime close to home -- literally, right next door.
You know The Mohawk as a crime haven, a crime den, a crack den --
not as home, but as a house of horror. And some weekend nights,
I'm told, as many as a hundred cars line Swiss Avenue, bringing
customers in search of heroin, crack and marijuana. Addicts used
to roam this neighborhood, offering to do odd jobs for $10, the
price of a crack high.
And one day a crackhead fired a gun at Michael Fells
as he was sitting on his front porch, and in two-months time last
spring police made more than 200 arrests at that one address
alone. But all that has changed. The morning of June 5, the day
U.S. marshals and Dallas police swept in and seized this
building. And that day many of you came out to cheer, to
celebrate the day that the law came back to this street. And
today The Mohawk doesn't just have a history, it has a future.
(Applause.)
But, you know, the change taking place here is just
the beginning. Each one of you is going to have to do your part
in taking back the streets, and then keeping this community crime
free. And I'm here today to tell you as President, we can help.
The key is a new approach, one that combines a no-nonsense
approach to crime with social programs that promise real help.
And too often in the past we've pursued our social programs and
our law enforcement efforts on totally separate tracks. And as a
MORE
- 3 -
result, many of our urban revitalization efforts are cut short by
crime.
You know, what I'm talking about is this: We build
public housing only to see these buildings taken over as crack
houses. We build model schools only to see them become war zones
where fear follows teachers and students right into the
classroom. And then we build playgrounds for children only to
see them become battlegrounds for drug pushers. And when a
neighborhood is overridden by crime, businesses are driven away,
taking jobs and opportunities with them.
We're tackling each one of these issues, each one of
these problems, with a new approach that we call weed and seed.
Weed and Seed is not so much a new spending program as a whole
new method of operating. And let me tell you how it works. As
the first step, federal, state and local enforcement officers
concentrate their efforts on neighborhoods like this one.
Working with you, the community, they "weed" out the gangs, the
criminals and the crackheads and the drug dealers. And as the
streets are reclaimed from the criminals, community policing is
put in place to help hold every inch of the ground that we've
taken. And police commanders attend community meetings; officers
patrol neighborhoods on foot; and residents feel safe knowing who
is on the beat in their area.
And finally, the broad array of federal, state and
local government and private sector revitalization programs are
brought to bear on the community, to "seed" in long-term
stability, growth and opportunity. Drug prevention programs,
Head start, job training, health care programs, community
development grants -- all are applied together in one place and
at one time in a true working partnership with the community.
weed and Seed is already up and running in Fort
Worth and in 19 other cities across the country. And this year I
asked the Congress for $500 million to fund Weed and Seed
programs in 50 or more communities. And I know East Dallas would
like to be one of them. And Congress has appropriated the money,
but they have not authorized it. And I wouldn't bother you with
these fine congressional distinctions, but I have to because us
Congress acts, Dallas or any American city, for that matter,
won't get one single dollar of what it needs.
You need help, and you need it now. And if you work
the late shift at some convenience store, you shouldn't have to
worry about whether you're going to be safe walking home. And if
you're sitting on your porch, you shouldn't have to be on the
lookout for a car full of hoods with a gun. (Applause.) And if
you need to run out for milk and bread late at night, you
shouldn't have to worry about who you'll run into at the corner
of Swiss and Moreland.
This is your home, and this your community and the
place your children play. And you deserve to be safe here.
(Applause.) And it pains me to say that every day we're being
forced to learn a new vocabulary for crime. Back in washington
we've had a wave of what they now call carjackings, where a
criminal steals a car -- not when it's parked, but when you're
sitting in a parking lot or waiting at a red light.
And just this month, carjackers stole the car of a
woman, taking her small daughter to her first day of preschool.
They dragged the woman to her death and tossed her little baby
out of the window. And something is wrong in our cities --
something is wrong in our society when crimes like that are
commonplace. We will and cannot stand by -- we will not and
cannot stand by and see innocent people terrorized, innocent
people paralyzed by fear. We've got to be tougher on the
criminals. (Applause.)
Carjackers or crack dealers, whatever the crime may
be, we've got to draw the line. And I ask you to get Congress to
- 4 -
give me the support we need to draw the line against them.
(Applause.)
But this we know: Tough talk won't do it. My
opponent in this presidential race talks a tough game, but I
would like you just for a minute to take a look at the Arkansas
record and see where Governor Clinton stands. The average inmate
in Arkansas served less than one-fifth of his sentence last year.
And most federal inmates serve 85 percent of their sentence.
Violent crimes in Arkansas went up almost 60 percent in the '805,
over twice the national average. And Arkansas had the nation's
biggest increase in overall crime and the third-biggest in
violent crime. And this kind of record is not right for
Arkansas, and it is not right for America. (Applause.)
Just ask the Fraternal Order of Police in Little
Rock, Arkansas. They know Governor Clinton's record best -- and
they're endorsing me for President. And I'm very proud of that
endorsement. (Applause.)
As President, I pushed Congress to put tough talk
aside and take action. I sent my comprehensive crime package to
Congress more than three years ago -- June 15th, 1989, to be
exact. And what's happened since then? The fall of the Berlin
Wall; the end of Soviet communism; the invasion and the
liberation of Kuwait. And Congress has sat on my crime package
for 1,201 days -- 1,201 days. And in those 1,201 days here in
Dallas alone, 1,441 people have been murdered. And in those
1,201 days, 3,997 have been raped. And all tolled in those 1,201
days, 79,903 have been victims of violent crime.
And each one of those days, another innocent person
becomes a statistic. We do not have another day to waste. And
we need this comprehensive crime package. And we need more
prisons, more police, more swift and certain punishment. And we
need a federal death penalty for cop killers and drug kingpins.
(Applause.)
Tough new provisions against sex crimes and domestic
violence -- we need that also. We need to make carjacking a
federal offense; apply federal racketeering laws to help us go
after gangs. And we need to strike a blow for responsibility by
using federal law to enforce child support payments from all
those deadbeat fathers. (Applause.)
And we must get reforms -- I believe in backing up
our police officers, and we need reforms to put a stop to the
endless appeals that make a mockery of justice for the victims of
crime. We need reforms that slam shut the revolving door justice
that far too often lets these criminals go free.
And what you're doing here puts you on the side of
the angels. But you cannot do it alone. You can't do it if the
system mocks the victims and if criminals own the streets and
law-abiding citizens are prisoners in their own homes.
Let get our cities and our citizens and our cops the
help that they need, the help they must have to drive crime and
drugs off our streets and out of our lives -- here in East Dallas
and all across the United States of America. (Applause.)
And let's make some changes in Congress and clean
House -- absolutely. (Applause.)
Thank you for this wonderful, warm welcome of East
Dallas. It's a privilege to spend this time in your community.
And may God bless the United States of America. (Applause.)
Thank you very much. (Applause.)
END
3:02 P.M. CDT