Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
323154270
label
East Dalla Renaissance Project 9/28/92 [OA 7581]
core
doc
dtoType
document
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
323154270
contentType
document
title
East Dalla Renaissance Project 9/28/92 [OA 7581]
citationUrl
identifierLocal
13835-009
collections
Records of the White House Office of Speechwriting (George H. W. Bush Administration)
Speech Backup Chronological Files
imageCount
1
hasImages
yes
source
import
hasTranscription
no
Source extras
naId
323154270
levelOfDescription
fileUnit
recordType
description
ocrSource
nara-archive
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
document
mediaId
a8748fbb1e8ea379
ocrText
Originally Processed With FOIA(s):
FOIA Number:
S
S
FOIA
MARKER
This is not a textual record. This is used as an
administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential
Library Staff.
Record Group/Collection:
George H.W. Bush Presidential Records
Collection/Office of Origin:
Speechwriting, White House Office of
Series:
Speech File Backup Files
Subseries:
Chron File, 1989-1993
OA/ID Number:
13835
Folder ID Number:
13835-009
Folder Title:
East Dallas Renaissance Project 9/28/92 [OA 7581]
Stack:
Row:
Section:
Shelf:
Position:
G
26
23
1
4
09/24/92 11:21
202 616 1159
001/002
FAX TRANSMISSION SHEET
LOUI PRO DOMINA JUSTITA OF to
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
77
Executive Office for Weed and Seed
=
Phone: (202) 616-1152
Fax: (202) 616-1159
9/23
Date:
To: MiCHELLE Nix
WHITE House
From: SHAWN Nevice
SA/DAG
2
Number of Pages including transmission sheet:
Person to Contact upon receipt:
Telephone of person to contact:
Special Instructions:
I have a few more items I'd like you
to see. I ll send them along as soon
as possible Sheer
09/24/92
11:21
202 616 1159
002/002
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
Executive Office for Weed and Seed
QUOTES
Washington, D.C. 20530
"What Weed and Seed has given is hope. A
"Call it 'Operation Weed and Seed' or call it a
year-round growing season for a new
holistic approach to crime fighting No one
generation."
expects the cities' projects to automatically spell
Fred Briggs, NBC Nightly News
the end of drugs and crime. But it's clear in
"Weed and Seed Offers Safe Haven for Children
most cities that current tactics are not yielding
in Trenton," broadcast August 10, 1992
the desired results. They have, in fact, become
part of the cycle in which criminals go down
only to have others rise up to take their place.
"I give thanks to the police Department and
This is a genuine attempt to break that cycle.
HUD (Department of Housing and Urban
It's well worth a try."
Development) and whoever had anything to do
The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution,
April 27, 1992
with this. I've been here since 1976 and its
never been like this It's beautiful now. It's
good to sit on the porch."
Bernie Edwards, 73 year old resident of Prince
"This positive program ought to be welcomed --
Hall Apartment Complex, Ft. Worth, Texas.
not resisted - by all citizens interested in
mid Severties
making Seattle a better city with more
think this is the philosophy of the future"
opportunities for brighter futures for young
United States Attorney General William Barr
people at risk of falling prey to crime."
Seattle Post Intelligencer, March 29, 1992
"I feel good about this because we have more
law enforcement support, and we see the
community coming together. It's everyone
"The community itself must take control.
working together."
Viewed from the comfort of suburban living
Bertha Arnold, resident of Thomasville Heights
rooms and dens, the projects appear filled with
Neighborhood, Atlanta, Georgia.
criminals. This description is unfair. Most
project residents obey the laws. Most want to
live in peace. They deserve a hand -- which is
A year ago when the Weed and Seed program
what Weed and Seed will try to give them."
was launched in our city, our nations's leaders
Richmond Times Dispatch, February 16, 1992
were in a frantic search of a drug elimination
program that works. As Mayor of the City of
Trenton, I can truly say that Weed and Seed is
one that can."
Mayor Douglas H. Palmer, Trenton,
New Jersey
THU 15:54 OPD
P.12
DATE: 1-15-92
The Philadelphia Unquirer
PAGE:
A13
KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
Here's why murders.
are down in the city
In 1991 we doubled the number of
where drug trafficking takes place.
By MICHAEL M. BAYLSON
dangerous defendants kept off the
No other single program helps:ahe
and WILLIE WILLIAMS
street from the moment of arrest If
cop on the beat more.
prosecuted in state court, these same
Pioneering cooperative efforts
P
hiladelphia had some encour-
defendants could have been at-large
have turned Philadelphia into a mod-
aging news in 1991. or the 10
either out 00 ball or out due to
el for the nation. But more than 400
largest cities to the country, it
overcrowded city jails.
murders is still far too many. and our
was the only one to have a signifi-
There is no substitute for long in.
work is far from over. We pledge to
cant decrease in the number of ho-
carceration of violent criminals; in-
stay on the offensive; we will use
micides, from A record 525 in 1990 to
deed, the significant 38 percent de-
every means at our disposal to keep
468 last year.
eline in drug-related homicides last
all Philadelphians safer and more
What makes Philadelphia special?
year (106, down from 171) may result
secure.
We think there are two primary
reasons for this success: & new strat.
from there being fewer violence-
prone traffickers on the street and
Michael M. Bayison is the U.S. aftor-
egy that literally "makes a federal
from the demise of so many gangs.
ney for the Eastern District of Perix-
case" against the most dangerous of-
sylvania. Willie Williams is the police
fenders and improved policing that
Career criminals, whose sentences
commissioner of Philadelphia.
is oriented toward and supported by
in state court would have been pro-
the community.
bation or a few months in jail: now.
The new "federal case" strategy
receive federal sentences of 15, 20 or
begins with substantial cooperation.
25 years for drug and gun offenses.
The beads of all law enforcement
This movement of dangerous crim-
agencies fighring drug trafficking in
inals from state court to federal
the Philadelphia area meet frequent.
court takes place in large measure
ly as part of the Violent Traffickers
under the FAST program (Federal
Project (VTP), established by the
Alternatives to State Trials) sand
U.S. Department of Justice in 1988. As
a result, we have unprecedented
Project Triggerlock. Supported by
the District Attorney's Office and
sharing of information about the
funded by the Department of Justice,
worst drug traffickers.
The project goes after violent drug
FAST bas resulted in several city
gangs that only a few years ago were
prosecutors and detectives working
pleguing many Philadelphia neigh-
in federal court putting away major
borhoods Indictments of 30, 40 de-
drug traffickers and violent offend.
fendants, including the top gang lead.
ers. The FAST cases have a 100 per-
cent conviction rate.
ership. are not unusual. We have
broken most of those gangs (more
Under Project Triggerlock pro-
than 600 members of 30 separate gangs
gram that targets career criminalle
are now in various federal prisons).
who use or carry gans. 93 individuals
including Jamaican Posses, the OK
in the Philadelphia area have been
Corral Gang that operated at Marshall
charged since the program began.t
and Tioge Streets and the Junior
April These offenses also carry-Joan-
Black Mafia Also included are the
datory sentences of S to 15 years
"tape" gangs (which are known by the
with
color of the tape binding their cocaine
depending upon the specific charge
begs. such as the "red tape" and "pink
and the criminal's previous record.
crack" gangs) that terrorized the
In citing these successes we must
Spring Garden neighborhood. Al-
recognize that we could not have
though new gangs are springing up
succeeded without community-Sotic-
all the time, we believe we can break
ing. This has meant increased police
them up before they develop into the
visibility. 27 new police ministre-
old types of gangs
tions. and citizen volunteers tapelp
The method for destroying these
the police answer questions and help
gangs is simple. After identifying the
residents deal with such problems as
worst drug desiers and violent of.
abandoned cars and trash piles. The
fenders. we "throw the federal book"
Police Department also works closely
at them. Much to their surprise and
with almost 1,000 town watch groups
horror. these predators find await-
throughout the city,
2:3
ing them in the federal system a
Much more community involve
combination of no bail. no mial de-
ment is needed if we are going. 10
lay. tough mandatory sentences
reduce crime across the board, We
(with no parole) and no early re-
need not only TOWN watch patrols,
lease because of prison overcrowd.
but community groups that can take
ing. The conviction rate is 98 per-
the pulse of a neighborhood and Selp
8
cent
identify who the criminals are and
MAY- 7-92 THU 15:52 OPD
P.08
Local Weed & Seed Quotes
"They going to be dogging the drug County dealers? That's great!"
" I want - my neighborhood and to there be a are safe spoken place, community where people values know about and
are Apartment manager in Orange
respect right and each change." other, -Kathi Lehr, Seattle
rich
or
white,
"safe_neighborhoods_areye "sere_nelghorhoods_are.co not truly because part they of the are law-enforcement
team!"
- could go to every corner to buy drugs; now, you have to
Robert Brown, Seattle
"Before you Alvida Burnett, Philly
walk." - you couldn't even go It by got here. better." It was like a
"Two supermarket, years ago people waiting in line.
"violent - crime is on the rise, by partly conscious due to choice drug or trafficking. misfortune
Tony Markeas, Philly
Many due to of drugs. our children Even one are such dying death is too many."
- down, it's a different resident. world. There's
Stuart wong, Seattle
"When the sun shooting goes and drugs." - Richmond
unnecessary things to get kids off the resident streets. If this finally
"We need it more right, it's okay." -Richmond
makes so filled up to know that we are going to be taken care of at
"I'm last!" --Helen Farmer, Chicago
sweep was about time. It's great! of these I people love it! that Maybe have
"This it'll arrested, drug make a difference. they don't even The majority live here." - Chicago resident
been welcome any efforts to regain Get rid control of a lot of the of the neighborhood. traffic. - Box I
"We think it's Make a damn it safer good for idea. the kids." -Chicago resident
it "There's up. too many shootings and killings. get in a gang, Gang you members can't afraid." are get being out.
shot Try getting that are out innocent. and you just once get you shot. Now I'm really
girl in Chicago
"It's - a Young problem. And I'm just hoping and praying we can fix it."
- Denver resident
MAY- 7-92 THU 15:48 OPD
P.01
TELE-FAX COVER SHEET
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
OFFICE OF POLICY & COMMUNICATIONS
10TH AND CONSTITUTION AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20530
DATE: 5/7/92
SEND TO:
Michelle nix
COMMENTS:
URGENT
FAX NUMBER: 456-6218
CONTACT PERSON: Kimberly Lmk
PHONE: 514-2061
NUMBER OF PAGES (INCLUDING THIS ONE): 14
OUR TELE-FAX NUMBER IS (202)-514-2424
7-92 THU 15:49 OPD
P.02
DRAFT REMARKS FOR PHILADELPHIA WEED AND SEED EVENT
[Acknowledgements -- Police Commissioner Willie Williams,
U.S. Attorney Mike Baylson, Mayor Ed Rendell, etc.]
As most of you know, last week I visited South Central Los
Angeles. (stories) I saw horror, dismay and outrage. But the
people there are rebuilding their lives, looking for hope
and
searching for answers.
I've come here today because Philadelphia seems to have some
of the answers. Philadelphia is one city which is breaking out
of the cycle of violence in America. Of the top ten major cities
in America, it is the only city whose murder rate dropped last
year. In fact, drug-related murders dropped 38 percent last
year.
so far, the good news is continuing this year - primarily
because of the hard work and cooperation of federal, state and
local law enforcement on the front lines. They can be credited
with breaking the mold
trying new solutions
...
using
innovative approaches to combat violent crime. Take a look at
the Violent Traffickers Project, which started over in Spring
Garden where we were earlier. The project broke the back of the
drug gangs operating in Spring Garden. Already, more than 600
members of 30 separate gangs in Philadelphia have been taken off
the streets and are doing hard time in various federal prisons.
And we're literally "making a federal case" against the most
dangerous criminals through F.A.S.T., Federal Alternatives to
State Trials, and through Project Triggerlock, which targets
7-92 THU 15:49 OPD
P.03
2
career criminals who use or carry guns. Conviction rates are
close to 100 percent for these cases, and sentences are running
15, 20 and 25 years for gun and drug offenses. When it comes to
lowering the crime rate here, these ideas are working.
We like what works. And another approach that works is Weed
and Seed. Philadelphia is a great city for Weed and Seed.
Because the key to Weed andSeed is partnership -- partnership
wint the community, partnership between governments, and
partnership between law enforcement and neighborhood
revitalization programs.
Weed and Seed is not so much a new spending program but a
whole new method of operating. It is a comprehensive approach to
combatting violent crime in some of America's hardest-hit
neighborhoods -- by focusing resources to assist the residents
who want to take back the streets and rebuild their communities.
Here's how it works. As the first step, the federal, state
and local law enforcement concentrate their efforts on
neighborhoods like the West Kensington corridor. Working with
the community, they "weed out" the violent offenders, the gangs,
and the drug traffickers. But the community has to lead the way
-- as they are here. Just last week [U.S. Attorney] Mike Baylson
and 3,000 elementary school children marched with the Concerned
United Neighbors Against Drugs -- right here in the Badlands.
This neighborhood is already taking the first step: taking back
the streets from the criminals and drug dealers once and for all.
As the streets are reclaimed from the criminals, community
Y 7-92 THU 15:50 OPD
P.04
3
policing is put into place -- so that the ground, once taken, is
held. Police Commissioner Williams was one of the first to begin
community policing years ago here in Philadelphia. Police
commanders attend community meetings, officers patrol
neighborhoods on foot and residents feel safe knowing who is on
the beat in their area. Community policing is one of the
reasons, we believe, that Philadelphia was spared some of the
violence that plagued other cities after the verdict in Los
Angeles two weeks ago.
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 mutually reinforcing way -- in a true working
partnership with the community.
Philadelphia is breaking the cycle of violence because
Philadelphia knows that without effective law enforcement, the
social programs cannot succeed. 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 being strangled by crime. You know what I'm talking
about. We build public housing only to see it taken over by drug
pushers and used as crack houses. We build model schools only to
see them become battlegrounds for gangs. The good intentions of
7-92 7 THU 15:50 OPD
P.05
4
community leaders and volunteers is wasted because of the bad
intentions of drug dealers and gang members.
When a neighborhood is overridden by crime, businesses are
driven away, taking jobs and opportunities with them. Potential
investors and would-be employers are scared away; builders and
landlords are discouraged because property values plummet. It
has become increasingly clear -- to business owners, parents,
teachers, public housing residents, to anyone who reads a
newspaper --- that law enforcement is an absolute prerequisite for
social programs to succeed.
That is why the Weed and Seed strategy works -- because it
makes good, common sense.
I have asked Congress to authorize the designation of Weed
and Seed communities as enterprise zones. Once law enforcement
has done its job, growth and opportunity will be stimulated
through investment, job creation and local entrepreneurial
activity in crime- and drug-free neighborhoods.
We've seen Weed and Seed work in pilot sites such as Trenton
and Kansas city -- and as a result, this year 16 more cities have
begun Weed and Seed programs. We're seeking a substantial
expansion of the Weed and Seed program for FY 1993 -- we're
requesting $500 million be made available for up to 30 qualifying
cities next year. I have also asked Congress to immediately
authorize parts of Los Angeles as Weed and Seed sites, so that we
can help the community best by focusing our resources on those
areas which need it help most.
7-92 THU 15:51 OPD
P.06
5
The Weed and Seed approach is one of the answers people are
searching for. As I said in Los Angeles on Friday, it's time we
tried something different. A fresh approach. One that gives the
word opportunity real meaning. We do believe that work is better
than welfare. That independence is better than dependence. That
ownership is better than tenancy.
I believe in policies that rely on the community for
guidance -- that encourage entrepreneurship, increase investment
and create jobs. In my view, the best hope for genuine
community renewal lies in those traditional institutions which
emerge from the communities themselves -- and which are the best
institutions for the moral formation of children: the church,
community groups, and most importantly, the family.
In the final analysis, nothing can substitute for the clear
moral vision, the discipline, and the respect for authority that
strong families, religion and community values provide. By
shoring up the foundation of civilized society -- the family and
the local community -- our social programs can help fight both
poverty and crime.
Weed and Seed seeks to do just that -- by working, as
partners, with families, churches and community groups. The
program's goal is to create a climate in which these natural
institutions can do the job they have done so well for centuries.
One resident of a Weed and Seed neighborhood in Seattle, Kathi
Lehr, said it best: "I want my neighborhood to be a safe place,
where people know and respect each other, and there are spoken
7-92 THU 15:51 OPD
P.07
6
community values about right and change." People like Kathi Lehr
are looking for answers, and they need look no further than their
own neighborhoods. The people of Philadelphia have found answers
-- and they lie in the courage and commitment of their neighbors
who are willing to try new solutions and find new hope for us
all.
Thank you all very much and keep up the good work. God
bless the United States
...
# # #
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas
1100 Commerce Street. Room 16G28
Dallas, Texas 75242
DATE:
9/14/92
PLEASE NOTIFY THE PERSON NAMED BELOW OF THE RECEIPT OF THIS FAX:
Name:
michelle Nix
Office:
Phone:
FAX: 2024566218
From:
BRAd CATeS
Office of the United States Attorney
1100 Commerce, Room 16G28
Dallas, Texas 75242-1699
FTS: 729-0951
COMM: (214) 767-0951
FAX: FTS: 729-8764
FAX: COMM: (214) 767-8764
Total number of pages (includes cover sheet): 198 11
COMMENTS:
relating To EAST DAHAS
West DAHAS
P.1
SEP 24 '92 10:39AM USAO DTF DALLAS
True meaning of 'weed and seed'
Michael Estrada and Odell
impressed Dallas City Homes, the non-profit corpo-
Harmon do not know each
Odell Harmon's departure
ration that was deeded Odell Harmon's property
other. But they have a couple
for federal prison took a
for redavalopment of affordable housing in West
of things in common. They
Dallas, He has been offered a job with the company
have both worked for their
weed from Nomas Street that
when he completes his college education.
future in the 1900 block of No-
had sapped the residents'
Roger Wilson. coordinator of construction tech-
mas Street in West Dallas.
nology programs at North Lake, also was impressed
And they are both going
spirit. In its place, a tireless
by the willingness of the teen-agers to learn
HENRY
places this fall.
TATUM
That is where the compari-
group of young people
quickly and throw themselves entirely into getting
the job done on schedule. As technical adviser and
sons end, however. Michael
planted a seed of hope that
overseer for the two building projects, Mr. Wilson
Estrada is going to college. Odell Harmon is going
all of them will be able to
saw a group of gangly kids transformed into sea-
to prison. In a world of hollow political rhetoric
soned construction workers by the end of the
and bureaucratic catch phrases, these two men de-
harvest in the coming years.
summer.
fine the true meaning of "weed and seed."
In the process, Mr. Wilson also saw a depressed
Michael is an 18-year-old freshman at North
which provides employment and skills training
neighborhood open its doors to the teen-agers and
Lake Community College who is preparing for a
each year for high school students from low-
open its mind to housing restoration. Residents
carear in home building. The evidence of his tal-
income families.
who had watched from behind closed curtains
ents can be seen on Nomas Street where he and 30
Before long. the task of building two brick
while drug deals were being made came out on
other teen-age members of the Mobil Green
homes in eight weeks became more than just a job.
their porches to cheer on the efforts of the young
Team/Future Builders of Dallas constructed two at-
It became a challenge and then a heated competi-
builders from the Mobil Green Team. They offered
tractive brick homes this summer.
tion between the two teams of toiling teen-agers.
water to the weary construction crews. Some even
Mr. Harmon is a convicted drug dealer who po.
"I don't think I've ever worked so hard,"
pulled out paint brushes and began sprucing up
lice say earned as much as $20,000 8 day from crack
Michael recalled. "The rains put us behind sched-
their own homes.
cocaine sales at homeo he owned along Nomas and
ule. So we were really pushing to get through in
This cooperative project involving the Dallas
Puget streets. He was arrested in January and his
time."
city government, a non-profit corporation, a giant
houses were seized by federal authorities as part of
The young crews laid the foundations, built the
oil company and countless small businesses that
his illicit operations. Last week, U.S. District Judge
walls. ceilings and roofs, and did almost every
volunteered supplies and professional assistance
Jorge Solis handed Mr. Harmon a 25-year prison
other job that wouldn't require years of specialized
truly reflects what can transpire when everyone is
sentence for drug trafficking.
training. Bricklaying and installation of air condi-
on the same page of the play book.
Had the houses on Nomas Street not been 20 in-
tioning and plumbing were assigned to profes-
Odell Harmon's departure for federal prison
famous in West Dallas, Michael and the Mobil
sional contractors. But the future builders even as-
took a weed from Nomas Street that had sapped the
Green Team might not have had B chance to prove
sisted on those tasks.
residents' spirit. In its place, a tireless group of
their worth as future builders. After the seized
"We wanted to build something that would still
young people planted a seed of hope that all of
properties were bulidozed, the vacant land became
be there 25 years from now," Michael said. "I
them will be able to harvest in the coming years.
fertile soil for a construction project that has left
wanted to be able to go back to those houses and be
everyone involved smiling and proud.
proud of what we accomplished."
Henry Tatum is an associate editor of The Dallas
Michael Was the crew chief of 15 young people
The work of Michael Estrada apparently
Morning News editorial page.
who built one of the three-bedroom
homes that replaced Mr. Harmon's dilapi-
dated crack houses. Veronica "Ronnie"
18 A
Toscano headed up the other teen-age
BURL OSBORNE, Publisher and Editor
crew at the construction site.
Many of the crew members hardly
JEREMY L. HALBREICH, President and General Manager
knew how to hammer nails when they be-
RALPH LANGER. Senior Vice President/Executive Editor
gan their task at the first of the summer.
WILLIAM W. EVANS. Executive Managing Editor
They were simply part of the Mobil
ROBERT W. MONG JR., Managing Editor
Foundation's $250,000 grant program.
RENA PEDERSON, Vice President/Editorial Page Editor
The Ballas Morning News
Senior Vice Presidents
VIEWPOINTS
Wednesday, September 2, 1992
HARRY M. STANLEY JR., Sales and Marketing
J. WILLIAM Cox, Administration and Finance
Editor
Carolyn Barts
FRANK McKNIGHT, Circulation
Viewpoints is # daily forum for a wide variety of
Vice Presidents
news and opinions and does not necessarily re.
flect the editorial opinion of The Dalles Morning
RICHARD STARKS, Advertising
News. Write Viewpoints. Dallas Morning News,
HAROLD F. GAAR JR., Marketing
Box 655237, Dellas, Texas 75365.
BARRY PECKHAM, Circulation
GROVER D. LIVINGSTON, Information Management
DEAN BLYTHE, Special Projects
JAMES M. CORREU. Production
EDITORIALS
2'd
SEP 24 '92 10:39AM USAO DTF DALLAS
Metropolitar
Tuesday, April 14, 1992
DIME, the Dallas Horsing March
The Ballas Marring Melos
DRUG WAR VICTORY
5 homes to replace
razed crack houses
By Al Brumley
Writer of Name
It took three months and 11 days to get the
buildozers out there.
But once the heavy equipment arrived
Monday morning, It took only about 10 min.
wies to knock down the three crack houses
and give residents in the 1900 block of Nomas
Street a reason to hope again.
The demolition on the West Dallas street
marked the first tengible results of a pioneer-
ing effort to take cash and property from drug
dealers and give those assets back to the com.
munity, officials said.
As Police Chief Bill Rathburn, San. Phil
Gramm, R-Texas. and Dallas Mayor Steve Bart-
lett looked on, clapboard houses where deal-
are once sold thousands of dollars worth of
crack cocaine were reduced to piles of broken
The
Paris
boards.
In their place, the city will build five new
Sen. Phil Gramm (conter right), R-Texas, hands deeds of ownership Monday
homes for low-income families. Business own-
to propriators Melba McNeal and Artrous HILL, who previously Ind rented
a
era in the DTCA who once rented space from
the space on Puget Street from odell Harmon. Mr. Hermon has pleaded
"drug thugs" now have the chance to buy
guilty to federal drug charges and faces R 40-year prison centence.
those properties.
The houses, built with money from confis
a miracle because it to the conversion of crack
He credited Mr. Gramm, the U.S. attorney's of-
cated drugs of the previous owner, will not,
houses
into family homes and a neighbor-
fine, Chief Rethburn and Dallas City Council
cost the city additional dollars, officials said.
hood."
member Mattic Nesh for pushing the project
A small group of residents and community
The project's speed also has been remark.
through the usual red tape.
P
leaders cheered as the bulidozers bullied
able. Mr. Bartiett said.
their way over the ramshackle dwellings.
"This is something that has not been done
d
In the past. securing # criminal's property
"The fact is that what has happened today
and transferring the deeds to the city could
in any other city, and it has not been done in
is a miracle," Mr. Bartlett told the crowd. "It is
have taken up to 18 months, the mayor said,
Please Me NEIGHBORHOOD en Page MA,
Neighborhood gets new chance
with drug dealer's seized property
Continued from Page 1SA.
mon's property and use it to en-
Also Monday, Mr. Gramm pre-
Dallas before,"
hance the neighborhood.
sented ownership deeds to three
Mt. Bartiett said. "I want to say on
Officials finally realized that
Susiness operators who had been
behalf of the city of Dallas end the
"coming into & garden and pulling
renting space from Mr. Harmon.
Drive
residents of this area how much W6
up a weed doesn't do any good un-
The businesses, a barbershop
all appreciate the miracle of chang-
less you plant & nower," Mr. Gramm
and two beauty salons. are located
Office buildings where previous
ing the bureaucracy to work for us
said. "Unless we're going to do
in A building on Puger Street
rentera are now owners.
instead of against us."
something to change the area
around the corner from the demol-
The demolished houses stood on
we're going to have another weed
ished houses.
property that once belonged to
come back in short order. and
The monthly mortgage payments
Puget
Crack houses demolished
to make way for five new
Odell Harmon, who police say
there's going to be another hood
will be the same amount as the rent
single-family homes.
earned $20,000 a day selling drugs
here using this substandard hous-
payments were, officials said.
in West Dallas.
ing to sall drugs."
Artrous Hill, 76, owns Hill's
Police arrested Mr. Harmon and
Ownership of the properties
Barber Shop at 3230 Puget St. Re-
Denreson
raided his properties on Jan. 2. The
where the houses stood has been
ceiving the deed to the property
Nomes
seized properties included five
transferred to Dallas City Homes, a
was "the pleasure of my life," he
houses and two buildings, includ.
non-profit corporation that builds
said Monday,
Singleten Blvd
Ing one that houses & barbershop
single-family homes for low-ineome
Rodney Ball, 36, owner of The
and two beauty salons.
residents.
Chateau of Ball Hair Designers, said
The Dellar Morning News
Last week. Mr. Harmon pleaded
Duene McClurg. president of
the reality of owning his own prop-
guilty to federal drug charges and
Dallas City Homes, said that the
crty had not sunk in yet.
that are rife with drug dealing. He
now faces 0 maximum 40-year sen-
new houses will be about 1,000
T'm fast DOW beginning to think
promised that Monday's demolition
tence in a federal penitentiary, said
square feet. with three bedrooms
about it," be said. "At first, we
would not be the last.
Marvin Collins. U.ited S. attorney
and two baths To be eligible for
didn't know what was going to hap-
"Every single doaler in Dellas
for the Northern District of Texas.
one of the new homes, a family or
pen."
has to beware, because we're after
In the meantime. officials with
four must earn between $21,930 and
The business owners will be able
them." he said. "And wg've got "
the U.S. attorney's office. the U.S. at-
$35.100 annually.
to pay off their mortgages ID about
list, 600 locations now. and we're
torney general's office and the city
Families who wish to apply may
four years.
going to keep going through that
of Dallas embarked an the unique
call the Department of Housing and
Chief Rathburn yaid police have
list until we close them down, every
program designed to take Mr. Har-
Neighborhood Services at 670-3610.
torgeted 600 more areas in the city
single one of them."
E'd
SEP 24 '92 10:40AM USAO DTF DALLAS
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas
1100 Commerce Street, Room 16G28
Dallas, Texas 75242-1699
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 10, 1992
CONTACT: 214/767-0951
Dallas, Texas
PRESS ADVISORY
United States Senator Phil Gramm, Marvin Collins, United
States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Mayor Steve
Bartlett, and William Rathburn, Chief of the Dallas Police
Department, announced today, April 13, 1992, the settlement of
seizures involving the forfeiture of real estate in west Dallas.
It was alleged that a crack sales organization operating in
west Dallas over the last several years had acquired ownership of
seven dwellings, four small business buildings, and two vacant lots
on Nomas, Puget and Dennison Streets in west Dallas. On
January 2, 1992, :most 80 Dallas Police Officers and Federal
Agents raided these properties.
Due to a unique settlement agreement completed in record time,
the settlement provides for nearly $40,000 to the Dallas Police
Department's Federal Confiscated Money Fund, the construction of
five new homes, the sale of four properties to small business
owners, and $10,000 to rehabilitate these business properties.
1
P.4
SEP 24 '92 10:41AM USAO DTF DALLAS
The case being settled today is entitled "United States V.
1931 Nomas, et al.", and is a civil "asset forfeiture" action
against the pieces of real estate. The federal asset forfeiture
laws provide for the confiscation of properties that are either
used in drug trafficking, or bought with the illicit proceeds of
drugs, and are designed to take the profit out of drug dealing.
These seizures are often prosecuted independently of the criminal
indictment against any individual.
The seizure of these properties was undertaken solely for its
law enforcement value. It was fully expected that the United
States would take a large loss on the seizures, and would have
great difficulty in disposing of the properties. It was felt,
however, that this neighborhood, which includes three schools and
several nearby churches, had been terrorized long enough by these
crack houses and drug dealers, and action had to be taken.
Collins stated that: "Due to an outstanding cooperative effort
between the United States Attorney's Office, the city of Dallas,
and the Dallas Police Department, a most unique settlement
agreement was crafted. Although it meets all federal Justice
Department guidelines, the settlement is so unique that it was
personally approved by the Deputy Attorney General of the United
States."
2
S'd
SEP 24 '92 10:41AM USAO DTF DALLAS
Collins stated further that: "No citizens except those
involved in criminal wrongdoing were displaced as a result of the
forfeitures. The citizens living or working in these units were
given the opportunity to purchase their properties. As a result,
Mr. Morris and his wife Ms. Jackson have purchased their home, as
well as the outbuilding rental unit on the property. The tenant
in the outbuilding has lived there for over 20 years. Mr. Morris
and Ms. Jackson are enthusiastic about the opportunity to own their
own home and the proposed improvements. Further, three small
businesses (one barber shop and two beauty shops) will be purchased
by the tenants. The purchasers are Mr. and Mrs. James McNeal, Mr.
and Mrs. Artrous Hill, and Mr. Rodney Ball."
Mr. Rodney Ball is a hairdresser. Mr. Ball has been a
hairdresser for 15 years, two years at his current location on
Puget Street. Mr. Ball, who lives in the other half of the
building he has purchased, is looking forward to owning his own
business and is also excited about what this unique settlement
agreement will mean to the community.
Mr. Artrous Hill operates a barber shop on Puget Street. Mr.
Hill has been a barber on this same block for 41 years. He plans
to remodel his shop and open a coffee shop next door.
Mrs. McNeal plans to remodel her barber shop and continue to
operate her business. She has been a barber at this location for
3
9'd
SEP 24 '92 10:42AM USAO DTF DALLAS
10 years. She currently employs two others in addition to herself
and hopes to increase her staff.
"Reclaiming neighborhoods from drug dealers and other violent
criminals is a top priority of the United States Justice
Department," added Collins. "We're combining traditional law
enforcement with a wide range of social and revitalization agencies
to insure that after law enforcement has removed the criminals,
permanent improvements in the neighborhood are put in place."
Collins announced that, other than interim construction
financing, the federal government's legal settlement will not
involve any cost to the citizens of Dallas, the City of Dallas or
the Federal Government. The city of Dallas will carry the notes
for the purchase of the businesses at five percent, but with
interest will realize nearly $40,000 for the Police Department
Narcotics Division over five years. In addition, by working with
a non-profit housing organization, the new owners will spend over
$10,000 improving their properties in the next year.
Thanks to the assistance of the City of Dallas' Housing and
Neighborhood Services Department, and the cooperation of Regional
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
Administrator San Moseley, arrangements were made for Dallas City
Homes, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing
affordable housing to Dallas community members, to agree to build
4
P.7
SEP 24 '92 10:42AM USAO DTF DALLAS
five new homes that will be sold to low income Dallas citizens and
to rehabilitate the existing units. Dallas city Homes, Inc., has
already built or rehabilitated over 100 homes in Dallas in just two
years.
Four of the buildings have been condemned by the City as a
health or safety hazard. Demolition of these buildings began
today. The lots will be cleared and five new homes will be
constructed on these lots. This is called infill housing, and the
new houses will all be sold to low income working people.
Moseley added "HUD supports increasing and promoting home
ownership in Dallas and revitalization of the west Dallas
neighborhood."
Working cooperatively with the Justice Department, Mayor Steve
Bartlett mobilized the resources of the City to complement the
federal government's action. The Mayor today announced that the
city will use this agreement as a model for similar activities in
the future. "Working with the Federal government and the Dallas
Police Department, the City of Dallas hopes to kill two birds with
one stone -- improving public housing and reducing crime," said
Mayor Bartlett. "It has been proven that when public housing
tenants become owners of their homes, the quality of the
neighborhood rises. If we can do that while exterminating crime,
we will have a win-win situation." II
5
8'd
SEP 24 '92 10:43AM USAO DTF DALLAS
Bartlett added, "The city looks forward to working with HUD,
the U.S. Justice Department, and the Police Department in similar
efforts in the future."
As a further unique aspect of this operation, the Dallas
Police Department's SAFE Team managed these properties during the
pendency of this court action. Likewise, the Police Department was
an integral part of the raid. Police Chief Bill Rathburn said,
"The progress we are seeing in this area of west Dallas illustrates
the potential of what can be accomplished when agencies of
government and the private sector work together."
Chief Rathburn added further, "The proactive approach to
addressing crime problems through our SAFE team will continue to
be a priority in our department."
James Gilleylen, Director of the city of Dallas' Housing and
Neighborhood Services Department said, "The City and the
neighborhood have a unique opportunity to cooperatively reclaim
and revitalize the Nomas Street area. Community Development Block
Grant is funding the amount of $245,000, which has been committed
for the interim financing for construction of the new infill
houses, and the potential rehabilitation of others. These
improvements, coupled with infrastructure improvements already
underway, and a proposed neighborhood association, provide a basis
for long-term neighborhocd stability".
6
6'd
SEP 24 '92 10:43AM USAO DTF DALLAS
back home one more week of tone
Jubilee Dallas cerebration.
nd bilss.
backwoodsman" who was d "sensible, indus-
trious. ingenious and hospitable man," ac-
in early October, a hardy band of fans of
This story of faith came to us on the
cording to an 1843 traveler in North Texas,
fellow movie fans. you should be
the Earth took a 10-mile canoe trip along
beals of the recent season of joy. A little kid
was John Neety Bryan, the founder of Dal-
nat The Telephone Man is out
the Trinity River from Crow Lake, near the
from Midland was in town and got a new
las
Sylvan Street crossing. south through the
kite. Our skies were too calm. 90 be couldn't
Secret Della Haterical Society
METRO PAST
From The Dallar Morning News Filse
aid services
o take advantage
Jan. 3, 1892
businesses have
Mr. E.W. Doolittie. one of the
10 Federal Emer-
proprietors of the Arcade. looks
Austin. Programs
forward to good business in Dallas
and necessities.
this year. He says "Our sales in
9 may be eligible
1891 were the largest we ever
ply for loans and
had. and were considerably in ex-
incy conservation
cest of those of 1890. Our expert-
9029. The line in
ence in Dallas leaves us no cause
whatever for complaint of the
past, and It enocurages us as"re-
9 judge
gards the future. We expect to do
& bigger business this year than
omay, announced
we did in 1891."
district judge. Mr.
run against state
Jan. 3, 1917
y two Democratic
by Gov. Ann Rich-
Idaas with reference to the opera-
was promoted to
tion of household expenses on the
retty of Taxas law
budget plan will be presented be-
nen as a lawyer in
fore the Dallas Society for Munici-
office in 1988.
pal Rasearch at its first meeting of
the new year tomorrow night at 8
o'clook et the City Hall. "How the
plan
Family Budget Can Reduce Living
ad Westworth VII-
Costs" will be the subject for
Office of Economic
roundtable discussion. No attempt
elop Carswell Air
will be made to go into the subject
of the higher 00618 of domestic
The
- reported. The
Delias
Carswell and more
produce.
Dallas police officers take part in a raid
properties either had been used to manu-
# Task Force city
Jan. 3, 1942
Thursday in West Dallas in which nine
facture or sell illegal drugs or had been
plans since early
OEA grant means
Myron Everts, president of the
properties were seised. Police said the
purchased with proceeds from drug sales.
West
ping & conversion
Daties Retail Merchants Associa-
ther than local tax
tion, has called a meeting of the
organization for Wednesday to
discuss cutting down on store de-
9 properties seized in drug case Dallas
liveries, packaging and boxing in
order to conserve rubber and pa-
ntt
. con-
per. Whether a co-operative deliv-
awfu.
invest-
ery system would be worked out
wner arrested, accused of earning $20,000 a day from dealing
ges. Wayne Hugh
among the merchants was
erve 100 hours of
doubted by Mr. Evens. but he said
foot Sanders. Sev-
By Al Brumley
Police arrested three other drug sales suspects in
deliveries undoubtably will be out
no, including ring-
down to one a day or every other
Beff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
the houses, Chief Rathburn said.
/ear, seven-month
day in order to seve on tires dur-
Dallas police and federal agents Thursday seized
About 100 police officers and federal agents con-
ing the critical period. "We are at
war." said Mr. Everts, "with the
nine properties owned by a man who they say earned
verged on the intersection of Nomas and Puget streets
$20,000 a day dealing drugs in West Dallas.
at 3:30 p.m. Thursday. Residents lined nearby streets to
accident
OPM requesting everyone to save.
watch as officers stormed into the run-down houses.
Merchants will meet Wednesday
The properties included five ramshackle homes and
Police said one of the homes was used to manufac-
died Wednesday
at the Dallas Chamber of Com-
two buildings that house a barbershop and & beauty
ture crack cocaine and others were used as selling
7, police said. Holly
meroe to see how they can con-
shop.
00 block of Walnut
serve their tires in order 10 give
Police Chief Bill Rathburn said the seizures were
points.
m., police said. Ms.
efficient service AA long as possi-
The front yards were littered with bubcaps. tires,
ble."
designed to flush out drug dealers and give the neigh-
9 Street when she
beer bottles, sinks and toilets. Police said the homes'
borhood back to residents.
taken to Parkland
interiors looked little better.
njuries, police said.
Jan. 3, 1967
The seized properties either had been used to manu-
Artrous Hill, owner of Hill's Barber Shop at 3230
5 midsland car, was
The City of Dallas will feel more
facture or sell illegal drugs or had been purchased
1. officials said.
need for new sources of revenue
with proceeds from drug sales. police said.
Puget St., said he was caught by surprise when depu-
ties with the U.S. Marshais Service told him that the
in 1967 than at any time in recent
Ownership of the properties will be transferred to
years. Dallas taxpayers will be
the U.S. TO ernment "to deprive drug dealers of their
property was being seized.
asked to finance some of the city's
Mr. Hill, 76, said he rented the property from Mr.
base of operations," said Marvin Collins. the U.S. aftor-
call the Recycling
most expensive and ambitious
Harmon and did not know about any drug dealing.
projects, which are expected to
ney for the district that includes Dallas.
"I've been out here in West Dallas for 47 years," he
lias Morning News.
Doost the tax rate again. The proj-
"We're starting the year off with a beng
and
such as setting up
said. "I'm worried about my business that's all I'm
ects include A new $25 million City
we going to keep the pressure on." Chief Rathburn
King compost piles,
worried about."
Hall. Fair Park renovation, city
said.
rea programs. The
Chief Rathburn said that If legitimate businesses
flood control measures, a possible
$10 million expansion of Dallas
Thursday's seizures capped an 18-month investiga-
are operating in the buildings, arrangements will be
Memorial Auditorium and numer-
tion of George Harmon Jr., whom police had identified
made to allow them to stay.
DUS capital improvements.
as a cocaine dealer. Dallas police, the federal Drug En-
Police confiscated a smell amount of drugs from the
forcement Administration and the U.S. Marshals Ser-
houses. They also found several dogs, & raccoon in a
Jan. 3, 1982
vice worked together on the investigation.
cage and à 30-caliber M-1 carbine, which Chief Rath.
The prospect of warting almost 40
Police searched Mr. Harmon's house last January
burn displayed.
years to be promoted to head
and found 270 grams of cocaine and $11,100.
Officials said they also planned to confiscate several
nurse was more than 26-year-old
Aidan Murphy could stand. So he
Mr. Harmon was fatally shot June 9 st an illegal
cars owned by Mr. Harmon and will be looking at other
istened long and hard last Febru-
horse race in Dallas. and police then shifted the inves-
properties he owns.
ary when Parkland Memorial Hos-
ligation to his brother. Odell Harmon, Chief Rathburn
Some residents laughed at the seirures, saying they
cital recruiters told him Dailas of-
said.
would do little to curb drug dealing in the area.
iered better chances for promo-
Officials said Odell Harmon took over the drug oper-
But Maggie Pitts said she was glad to see the police
tion than his native Ireland.
ation from his brother.
there "It's going to make a difference. I think." the
Parkland recruitars could guaran-
too Murphy advancement because
Odell Harmon was arrested Thursday afternoon at
neighborhood resident said. "I like It. I just hope that if
Texas has à nursing shortage.
his Cedar Hill home and faces federal drug-distribu-
they (drug dealers) leave this place, they won't go to
Last summer. the Texas Hospital
non charges. said Dallas police Capt. John Ferguson.
another one."
Association predicted a 12,000-
nurse shortage in Texas hospitals
by December. And. according to
the Texas Nurses Association,
18,000 licensed registered nurses
Ex-broker pleads guilty to fraud
in the state are not practicing pn-
P.10
SEP 24 '92 10:44AM USAO DTF DALLAS
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.
Я
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.
he key is a new approach, one that combines a no-nonsense
approach to crame 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 '80s,
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
New
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
michael
crackhead fired a gun at one of the neighbors sitting I 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
Congress hasen authorized the money
appropriate
be one of them. Congress has authorized the money -- but they
haven't appropriated 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.
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. //
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.
#
#
#
TEL:
Sep 26'92
13:59 No. 010 P.01
FAX
BUSH
QUAYLE
Communications
92
Date: 9/26/92
To: Sleve Projost
Organization:
Fax number:
From: Ari Fleischer
Organization:
Number of Pages to Follow:
\
Telephone number:
Comments:
Steve,
Any chance the attached message
can be included in the Dellas Speech ?'
Thanks.
- Ari
Confidentiality Notice:
The document accompanying this telecopy transmission contains information belonging to the sender which is confidential and may be
legally privileged. The information is Intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended
recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this
telecopied information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this telecopy in error, please natify us by telephone to arrange for the
return of the original document to us.
1030 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005
Paid for by Bush-Quayle '92 General Committee, Inc.
514-3892
seized Sincy 1989
Spending on
tan to tight crime 59070
Since 1989.
/ 1500 DEA
Crime Rate
-
1960-1980
t 1200 FBI
V
crim
400 60-80
1200 Prosecutors agents
cominal
asset
1980-1981 #20 only 27%
Slighty Project 8,000 ever cominals
overall crime
1980-1991
yea
hawben changed
- rearly
190V
double
federal prison
capacity
cle millions of
weed Seed
-
onway
fewer
/
innovative
tough law w/smant
to tripling it
crimes
Social programs
Because of Req
inplacein Ma of 20cities
of couti
- Dramatic
in resources
FY 1993 71% since 1989
for JusticeDes
- of denefor
really doubled
TEL:
Sep 26'92 13:59 No 010 P.02
September 25, 1992
MEMORANDUM TO ARI
FROM:
RAY
SUBJECT: POTUS 9/28 SPEECH IN EAST DALLAS
Jim Oberwetter, the Texas BQ Chairman, asked that we put a reference in
the President's Monday Dallas speech. The President is speaking at an East
Dallas housing project and Oberwetter would like to insert the following:
"I would also like to recognize the efforts of the Meadows Foundation which
is hard at work in East Dallas with other restoration projects."
The Meadows Foundation is re-generating low income homes not far (3-4
blocks) from where the President is speaking. They do not relv on federal funds.
September 28, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR DAN MC GROARTY
CHRISTINA MARTIN
FROM:
MICHELE NIX
SUBJECT:
EAST DALLAS EVENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND FACT CHECK
CHANGE
Per John Dirken
ON STAGE
Michael Fells (wife Ann will also be on stage) -- will intro
the President. He is a white, middle-aged man; a Vietnam
Vet; master's degree, lived across the street for 3 years;
has been shot at before.
Judge Lee Jackson -- giving remarks on President's crime
record
Artrous Hill -- barber from West Dallas (see below)
Michael Estrada -- from West Dallas; 18-year-old college
freshman; he and 30 other teenage members of the Mobil Green
Team/Future Builders of Dallas built modest-income housing
on Nomas Street in West Dallas -- where crack houses used to
sit. Michael was the crew chief of 15 young people who
built one of the 3-bedroom homes that replaced dilapidated
crack houses.
Glenn Box -- City Councilman and chairman of the Welcome
George Bush event rep
Sam Mosley -- Regional Administrator for HUD
John Vance -- District Atty of Dallas
Bruce Beatty -- U.S. Marshall, Northern District (seized
property)
Dwayne McClurg -- President of Dallas City Homes, Inc.
(redeveloped the West Dallas area that Michael Estrada
worked on) ; Dallas City Homes is a non-profit corporation
that builds single-family homes for low-income residents.
Steve Clique, Cheryl Harley, Dirk Maddox -- co-owners of the
Swiss Avenue apartment building.
NOMAS STREET
Both Mr. Hill and Michael Estrada are there to represent the
success of West Dallas. Someone from U.S. Attorney's office
suggested: Nomas [NU-mous] is the street where much of the
positive change has taken place. "Nomas" taken apart is "No mas"
-- Spanish meaning "no more. " The President could use this word
play to say "The line is drawn. No more
"
ABOUT MR. HILL
Seventy-six-year-old Artrous Hill operates a barber shop on
Puget [PEW-jit] Street in West Dallas. He's been a barber on
this same block for 41 years. Mr. Hill had been a tenant in a
small building that was owned by drug dealers.
A crack sales organization had been operating in West Dallas
over the last several years and had acquired ownership of seven
dwellings, four small business buildings and two vacant lots on
Nomas, Puget, and Dennison Streets.
On January 2, 1992 -- almost 80 Dallas Police Officers and
Federal Agents raided these properties. Working with the City of
Dallas, the Dallas Police Department and the U.S. Attorney's
Office, an agreement was reached that allowed the tenants of
these building the option to purchase their property.
Mr. Hill was able to purchase his property and then some.
He plans to remodel his shop and maybe open a coffee shop next
door.
FACT CHECK CHANGE
The line that Dean McGrath changed yesterday -- flipping
authorized and appropriated is wrong. It was right the first
time. The sentence should read: "Congress has appropriated the
money -- but they haven't authorized it."
This is an unusual case -- usually you do authorize before
you appropriate, but this is where Congress is pulling a fast
one.
Tim Shay in the DOJ's Deputy's office says flip it back. He
also says that since it is unusual, if we want we can take out
"appropriated." The President can just say something like
"Congress hasn't authorized the money I asked for in my budget
request last January. " Or in some way, he can qualify the
sentence with "And here's where there being tricky
" He can
do this so people don't think he doesn't understand the way
things worked or just mispoke.
Nevertheless, change the sentence back or rework it.
September 21, 1992
MEMORANDUM
TO:
KATHY SUPER
JOHN KELLER
STEVE PROVOST
FROM:
GARY FOSTER 67
SUBJECT: SITE SURVEY FOR DALLAS, TEXAS
Attached is the site survey for the President's trip to Dallas,
Texas on Monday, September 28. Once Kathy has the site
"scrubbed", implementation can begin. We are working with Public
Liaison on law enforcement endorsements for this entire week and,
hopefully, will have a coalition endorsement to announce while we
are in Dallas.
CC: Bob Zoellick
David Bates
Margaret Tutwiler
Tim McBride
David Demarest
Ede Holliday
Karen Groomes
Andrew Carpendale
Mrchele please her
Speechwriters
This cors.
Thankson
smr
September 21, 1992
MEMORANDUM TO:
GARY FOSTER
FROM:
DOUG DUVALL
SUBJECT:
SURVEY REPORT FOR DALLAS, TEXAS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
PROPOSED EVENT:
After traveling to St. Louis, where the President would make
a substantive speech on crime, the President would fly to Dallas,
Texas to attend an event highlighting the East Dallas Renaissance
Project, a "Weed and Seed" plan already underway. The President's
"Weed and Seed" program was initiated to keep crime and drugs out
of neighborhoods by using federal law enforcement officials to
help local police "weed out" drug dealers, gang leaders and
street criminals. Neighborhoods are then "seeded" with school
"drop-out" prevention programs, new drug treatment programs,
programs to improve the condition of public housing, job
training, and increased government health programs including pre-
natal care and HIV testing and counseling.
To a large extent, the East Dallas Renaissance Project is in
the midst of implementing these ideas. In June of 1992, police
and federal agents seized an East Dallas apartment building which
had been a virtual open-air market for illegal drug sales.
Before the seizure, police had made more than 200 arrests at the
apartment building for drug dealing. Temporary ownership of the
property was transferred to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Currently, a gentleman by the name of Steve Clicque, a CPA, owns
and lives in the property. Mr. Clicque is renovating the
building himself and plans on renting out the units within a
couple of years.
The Mohawk Apartment Building, on the corner of Swiss and
Moreland in East Dallas, is just one example of how Dallas is
revitalizing neighborhoods. Mr. Clicque says that there is a
great "reclaim the neighborhood feeling" amongst his neighbors.
It is safe to say that he has been warmly received in the
neighborhood. The neighborhood is extremely diverse in ethnicity
and income. Just a few blocks to one direction may be a crack
house while two blocks in another direction one would see
$700,000+ mansions. But whether one is rich or poor, black or
white, everyone has a stake in their community. The East Dallas
Renaissance Project is bringing this hope back to the
neighborhoods.
For the event itself, I would propose the President give
remarks in front of the Mohawk Apartment Building. The building
exemplifies what is trying to be achieved with the entire
Renaissance Project. They have a taskforce which is developing a
comprehensive weed and seed plan which provides for the law
enforcement, community based, and social action necessary to
renovate the neighborhood. The taskforce has a public and
private sector membership, and the targeted area runs
approximately 8 square miles in East Dallas.
A good portion of the audience would be comprised of
neighbors who live within the Renaissance Project. The remainder
of the crowd would be made of a variety of people. Obviously the
sponsors of the project, which include: U.S. Attorney Marvin
Collins, Police Chief Bill Ragthburn, Mayor Steve Bartlett,
DEA/SAC Phil Jordan, HUD Regional Administrator Sam Moseley, and
District Attorney John Vance. Given the fact that these are
public officials, we must be careful about what role, if any,
they have at the event.
The project also involves members of the City Council;
Baylor University Hospital; Mobile oil; Dallas City Homes, Inc.;
Mill Creek Homeowners Association; Mill Creek Crime Watch; and
citizens from the area. In addition, general interest from the
neighborhoods in East Dallas, there is a Criswell College located
nearby the event site, which could turn out some people. The
Greater Dallas Crime Commission, whose leadership is Republican,
could also be involved.
The site itself would be located outdoors, in front of the
Air
Mohawk Apartment Building. The building sits on a corner lot,
and it should not be a problem to shut down the intersection of
what's
Swiss and Moreland. The President could enter the rear of the
apartment building, proceed inside for a brief hold, and exit the
front door for his introduction on stage. While the President is
status
holding inside, he could be shown videotapes of drug busts which
occurred there only months ago. The East Dallas Renaissance
wt 4)
Project is currently working on a "Weed and Seed" application.
?
If it is possible to expedite the application, it would be
annower.
appropriate for the President to present a grant for the project.
The press platform could be placed in the street. Given
crowd size, it may be necessary to have the event on the side of
the house in the adjoining vacant lot. By not being the front
entrance, this has less of a visual setting because of its
boarded up windows. There is also a vacant corner lot nearby
which would be suitable for event parking.
Dallas' new Police Chief has been quite innovative. They
have had other success stories in West Dallas within the past
year. West Dallas is a poorer section of the city which has a
lot of crime. In April this year, Sen. Gramm, Mayor Steve
*
Bartlett, and Police Chief Bill Rathburn handed over deeds to
newly constructed homes where crack houses once stood. The city
why west?
made drug arrests, "weeded out" the "drug thugs", seized their
property, bulldozed the condemned houses and rebuilt new homes
for low income families.
All in all, this would be an excellent opportunity for the
President to address a truly domestic issue. Every neighborhood,
whether it is an upper class suburb or an inner city, wants to
have a stake in its community. It is interesting to note that
during the Los Angeles riots, those areas with neighborhood crime
watch groups and resident management organizations did not have a
problem with looting and violence. Instead, people defended
their homes and their neighbor's homes. The East Dallas
Renaissance Project, although at its formative stage, seeks to
renovate the neighborhood and give its citizens a stake in their
community.
CONTACTS:
Jim Oberwater, ett BQ Chair, 214/978-8535 O 214/328-3365 h
Brad Cates, Assistant US Atty, 214/767-0951 o 214/401-2831 h
Steve Clicque, Current owner of Mohawk Apts., 214/827-1101
* Michele- definitely we call should
OFFICE OF PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHWRITING
FACSIMILE TRANSMITTAL SHEET
Number of Pages (Including Cover) 20
To
Judge Lee Jackson
Fax Number
(214)348-9135
Date
September Michele 27,1992 Nix
From
office Number
(202) 456-7750
******
COMMENTS
******
Info you Requested.
Jeannie-
(214)348-4995
Please call Judge lee Jackson
in Dallas (214)348-4955
ne: crime event-
Ed
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 27, 1992
Dear Judge Jackson:
Here is some information that should help you put together
concise but substantive remarks on the President's Crime Record.
There are a lot of good stories to tell -- here are just a
handful:
During the 1960s and 1970s, the criminal justice system went
soft on crime. From 1960 to 1980, violent crime soared
400%. From 1980 to 1991, violent crime went up only 27%.
Overall crime from 1980 1991 decreased 1%.
There have been millions of fewer crimes over the past
twelve years because of the Reagan-Bush policies instituted
in the 1980s and continued by the Bush Administration.
The President's Weed and Seed program is up and running in
20 cities. It is an innovative program that combines tough
law enforcement with smart social programs to weed out the
criminals and seed the community with job training, health
care and educational programs.
There has been a dramatic increase in resources under the
President's watch. The President has increased funding by
71% since 1989 for the Department of Justice.
Since 1989, the President has nearly doubled funding for the
Drug War.
The President has nearly doubled federal prison capacity.
Through the President's Project Triggerlock -- a program
that targets repeat offenders using federal firearms laws -
- over 8,000 criminals have been charged in just over one
year.
I have also included the President's remarks to police
officers at a memorial ceremony held by the Washington Monument
this past May. It briefly ticks off a few accomplishments -- so
you can see how we usually work these into a speech. Any of
these stats are good to use.
Included also are fact sheet info regarding the President's
Comprehensive Crime Control Package -- sent back on June 15,
1989. The President will be discussing this as well, so it would
be best to keep your discussion brief. The main and best points
to hit are:
The President has consistently pushed for tougher
legislation, which Congress has thwarted.
The three best components that the President has pushed hard
for are: tougher death penalty laws; strong habeous corpus
reform; and tougher gun penalties.
The Conference Report going through Congress is weak -- and
is what we usually refer to as a pro-criminal bill. Also,
it would overturn a large number of Supreme Court cases that
has restored some balance.
I hope you find this information helpful. Please call if
you need further assistance or again, you can call Dan Levin,
Chief of Staff to the Attorney General at (202) 514-3892. I have
talked to him today and he is more than willing to help answer
any questions you may have.
Thank you for your effort in all of this. I am sure the
President's visit will be a great success.
Michele
Office of Presidential Speechwriting
798
May 7 / Administration of George Bush, 1992,
864
May 14 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
working mother in a low-wage job could
how this legislation can best secure this op-
receive financial assistance for courses
portunity for all Americans.
that would qualify her for better paying,
I urge the Congress to give the Lifelong
high-skilled jobs.
Learning Act of 1992 prompt and favorable
Extend new opportunities for education
consideration.
and training to all U.S. citizens. Addi-
George Bush
tional student loan eligibility would be
available for full- or part-time students.
The White House
The Student Loan Marketing Associa-
May 14, 1992.
tion (Sallie Mae) would be authorized
to originate up to $25,000 in loans, in
addition to current GSL loan limits,
through the Lifelong Learning Line of
Nomination of Donald Herman
Credit for those borrowers who want
Alexander To Be United States
the option of repaying loans on a basis
Ambassador to The Netherlands
tied to their actual income. The concept
May 14, 1992
of basing student loan repayment on a
borrower's future earnings has long
The President today announced his inten-
been attractive to the Administration
tion to nominate Donald Herman Alexander,
and to many in the Congress. However,
of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the King-
a program of this type presents unique
dom of The Netherlands. He would succeed
and complex design issues that demand
C. Howard Williams, Jr.
careful analysis and structuring. This
Since 1987, Mr. Alexander has served as
Act would call upon Sallie Mae, a leader
president of the private investment firm of
in student loan administration, to offer
Don H. Alexander & Associates, Inc., in Kan-
$100 million per year in loans and to
sas City, MO. Prior to this, he served as presi-
work with the Secretary of Education
dent of Perkins Industries, Inc., 1982-87,
to devise actuarially and fiscally sound
and as executive vice president of the Com-
loan options that would be widely avail-
merce Bank of Kansas City, 1966-82.
able.
Mr. Alexander graduated from Washburn
Explore the use of high-quality edu-
University (B.B.A., 1962). He was born July
cation and training programs offered by
11, 1938, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
non-school based providers. The Sec-
Mr. Alexander has three children and resides
retaries of Education and Labor would
in Kansas City, MO.
be authorized to develop regulations
under which students attending pro-
grams offered by nontraditional types of
providers could be eligible for the Life-
Remarks at the Law Enforcement
long Learning Line of Credit. Commu-
Officers Memorial Ceremony
nity-based organizations, public or pri-
May 15, 1992
vate agencies, and private employers are
some examples of the types of providers
Thank you, Cyndi, very much. Thank you
that might participate. These providers
all. Cyndi, thank you. And may I salute our
could participate only if the high quality
Attorney General who is doing an outstand-
of the programs could be ensured and
ing job for law enforcement, Bill Barr; the
if these funds do not replace funds al-
Members of Congress who are with us today;
ready being spent for this training.
Adolph South; an old friend, Dewey Stokes;
I believe that all Americans should have
John Walsh; Suzie Sawyer; Barbara Dodge;
Dave Derevere.
an opportunity to pursue education and
Ten years ago the FOP auxiliary began this
training throughout their lives. I look forward
nationally recognized service for law enforce-
to working with the Congress on this legisla-
ment officers who gave their lives in the line
tion and welcome your recommendations on
of duty, and I salute you from the bottom
eorge Bush, 1992
Administration of George Bush, 1992 / May 15
865
st secure this op-
of my heart. It is an honor to be with all
a conviction rate of nearly 90 percent. And
of you to mark a day that celebrates Ameri-
yet progress made is not mission accom-
give the Lifelong
ca's finest.
plished. And so today I again call on the Con-
ipt and favorable
Police work has been described as a thank-
gress to get with it and to pass our crime
less job. Well, I am here to say thank you
legislation. Let us back up our law enforce-
George Bush
on behalf of each American. We need you.
ment officials with laws that are fair, that are
We depend on you, and we cannot do with-
fast, and that are final.
out you. Yours is the priceless task of uphold-
For more than 3 years I've asked Congress
ing good against evil. All of us saw sickening
to pass a comprehensive crime package
sights in Los Angeles of criminals breaking
based on three simple principles: If criminals
windows and burning buildings and looting
commit crimes, they will be caught; if caught,
businesses. But even worse was the looting
they will be tried; and if convicted, they will
Herman
of something harder to replace than mer-
be punished. We need a crime bill which
3 States
chandise, the stealing of something precious,
strengthens, not weakens, your ability to up-
herlands
stealing hope, promise, the future. This we
hold our laws. And so I again appeal to the
cannot allow.
United States Congress: Send me a tough
You know better than anyone, it is not just
crime bill, one that will not weaken current
ounced his inten-
a privilege to support our law enforcement
law, one like the "Crime Control Act of
erman Alexander,
officers. Standing in Mt. Zion church right
1992," and I will sign it right away.
dor to the King-
in the heart of south central L.A. just a few
Let me take this opportunity to salute or-
ie would succeed
days ago, I spoke out there in support of law
ganizations like COPS, that Concerns of Po-
enforcement, and the place erupted into
lice Survivors, who provide aid when it is
ler has served as
spontaneous applause. The people were ap-
most needed. COPS was founded in 1984 to
vestment firm of
plauding, those most severely affected-but
have survivors help other survivors, and today
ites, Inc., in Kan-
those were the ones that were doing this,
they help 5,000 families nationwide as Good
e served as presi-
were most severely affected by the rioting
Samaritans to those who have lost a loved
, Inc., 1982-87,
and by the looting, and they were supporting
one.
lent of the Com-
the police officers. And that's the way it
Another Good Samaritan can be found
1966-82.
should be.
right up here on our stage today. I'm talking
from Washburn
So, today I pledge this to you, to that thin
about John Walsh, host of television's "Amer-
e was born July
blue line that separates good people from the
ica's Most Wanted." Last Friday, the show
he Netherlands.
worst instincts of our society, I pledge my
celebrated its 200th capture of a fugitive of
idren and resides
continuing and full support. We must show
the law. Sadly, John knows firsthand about
less compassion for the criminal and more
the horrors that crime can inflict upon par-
for the victims of crime. That is why we reau-
ents and families and communities. His little
thorized the 1984 Victims of Crime Act and
boy, Adam, was abducted and murdered, and
boosted its annual crime victims com-
the killer has never been found. John could
forcement
pensation assistance fund to $150 million.
have shut himself off from the world. Instead
emony
These dollars did not come from the tax-
he started "America's Most Wanted," a show
payers but from the criminals' fines and pen-
that helps law enforcement officers bring
alties. After all, crime should not pay; the
criminals to justice. John, we salute both
nuch. Thank you
criminals themselves should. And my admin-
what you are and what you do. Thank you.
may I salute our
istration has also acted to punish the hard-
Thank you very, very much.
ing an outstand-
ened criminals, career criminals, under the
Let me close on a personal note. Some
it, Bill Barr; the
Federal Career Criminal Act. No seasoned
have called the Presidency the world's tough-
are with us today;
criminal should walk free because we didn't
est job. Well, I think they're wrong. I believe
1, Dewey Stokes;
take the law and our law enforcement offi-
police officers have the toughest job. Police
Barbara Dodge;
cers seriously.
work is not 9 to 5; it's full time. It is danger.
We have proposed $15 billion for
It is fear. It is not knowing whether you will
xiliary began this
anticrime policies for fiscal year 1993, and
end your shift going home in a car or to the
e for law enforce-
that is up 59 percent in 4 years. We started
emergency room in an ambulance. It's popu-
r lives in the line
Project Triggerlock and already thousands of
lated by people willing to risk their lives to
rom the bottom
gun-toting criminals have been charged, with
save ours, people who are part social worker
798
May 7 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
866
May 15 / Administration of George Bush, 1992
and part soldier. It's a job that I sum up in
for Science and Technology, at a meeting
two words: American hero.
hosted by President LaCalle of Uruguay in
Every day of every year you risk your lives
Montevideo.
so that Americans can proceed with theirs.
The President first announced the concept
You truly show what the Bible meant,
of a network of regional institutes to study
"Greater love hath no man than this, that
global change in his closing remarks to the
a man lay down his life for his friends." I
White House Conference on Science and
still have with me this badge. This is the
Economics Research Related to Global
badge of a fallen police officer, a New York
Change, which was convened by the Presi-
cop that many of you all knew, Eddie Byrne.
dent in April 1990. Since then, the United
I keep it right there in my desk in the Oval
States has actively developed this concept
Office. It's there every single day to remind
and promoted the establishment of the first
me of this Nation's debt to those who serve.
of these institutes which will be located in
I will never forget, nor will our Nation.
the Western Hemisphere. The United States
Thank you for what you/do for our country.
will continue to work with senior rep-
May God bless each and every one of you
resentatives in the areas involved to establish
officers, and especially may God bless those
institutes in the European/African region and
families who have lost loved ones as those
in the Western Pacific region.
loved ones served our great Nation. Thank
This agreement reflects the President's
you all very, very much.
commitment to global stewardship and his
desire to promote responsible environmental
Note: The President spoke at 10:15 a.m. at
policies. It is consistent with his conviction
the Sylvan Theater. In his remarks, he re-
that major decisions on the environment
ferred to Cyndi Calendar, auxiliary presi-
should be based on a sound, informed under-
dent, Fraternal Order of Police; Adolph
standing of the scientific issues involved.
South, chaplain, National Fraternal Order of
Police; Dewey Stokes, president, Grand
Lodge Fraternal Order of Police; Suzie Saw-
yer, founder, and Barbara Dodge, president,
Letter to Congressional Leaders
Concerns of Police Survivors; and Dave
Reporting on Iraq's Compliance
Derevere, International Police Chaplains. A
With United Nations Security
tape was not available for verification of the
Council Resolutions
content of these remarks.
May 15, 1992
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
Consistent with the Authorization for Use
White House Statement on the
of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution
Establishment of the Inter-American
(Public Law 102-1), and as part of my con-
Institute for Global Change
tinuing effort to keep the Congress fully in-
Research
formed, I am again reporting on the status
May 15, 1992
of efforts to obtain compliance by Iraq with
the resolutions adopted by the U.N. Security
The President today announced that the
Council.
United States has joined 10 other countries
Since the events described in my report
of the Americas in signing an agreement that
of March 16, 1992, the U.N. Security Council
will formally establish an Inter-American In-
has rejected Iraq's contention that it was in
stitute for Global Change Research. The In-
compliance with the relevant Security Coun-
stitute will bring together the resources and
cil resolutions. On March 19, 1992, Rolf
capabilities needed to address important is-
Ekeus, Chairman of the United Nations Spe-
sues of global change in the Western Hemi-
cial Commission (UNSCOM), created pursu-
sphere.
ant to Resolution 687, received from Iraq ad-
The agreement was signed this week by
ditional declarations of weapons of mass de-
D. Allan Bromley, Assistant to the President
struction, which it claimed to have destroyed
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 27, 1992
Dear Judge Jackson:
Here is some information that should help you put together
concise but substantive remarks on the President's Crime Record.
There are a lot of good stories to tell -- here are just a
handful:
During the 1960s and 1970s, the criminal justice system went
soft on crime. From 1960 to 1980, violent crime soared
400%. From 1980 to 1991, violent crime went up only 27%.
Overall crime from 1980 1991 decreased 1%.
There have been millions of fewer crimes over the past
twelve years because of the Reagan-Bush policies instituted
in the 1980s and continued by the Bush Administration.
The President's Weed and Seed program is up and running in
20 cities. It is an innovative program that combines tough
law enforcement with smart social programs to weed out the
criminals and seed the community with job training, health
care and educational programs.
There has been a dramatic increase in resources under the
President's watch. The President has increased funding by
71% since 1989 for the Department of Justice.
Since 1989, the President has nearly doubled funding for the
Drug War.
The President has nearly doubled federal prison capacity.
Through the President's Project Triggerlock -- a program
that targets repeat offenders using federal firearms laws -
- over 8,000 criminals have been charged in just over one
year.
I have also included the President's remarks to police
officers at a memorial ceremony held by the Washington Monument
this past May. It briefly ticks off a few accomplishments -- so
you can see how we usually work these into a speech. Any of
these stats are good to use.
Included also are fact sheet info regarding the President's
Comprehensive Crime Control Package -- sent back on June 15,
1989. The President will be discussing this as well, so it would
be best to keep your discussion brief. The main and best points
to hit are:
The President has consistently pushed for tougher
legislation, which Congress has thwarted.
The three best components that the President has pushed hard
for are: tougher death penalty laws; strong habeous corpus
reform; and tougher gun penalties.
The Conference Report going through Congress is weak -- and
is what we usually refer to as a pro-criminal bill. Also,
it would overturn a large number of Supreme Court cases that
has restored some balance.
I hope you find this information helpful. Please call if
you need further assistance or again, you can call Dan Levin,
Chief of Staff to the Attorney General at (202) 514-3892. I have
talked to him today and he is more than willing to help answer
any questions you may have.
Thank you for your effort in all of this. I am sure the
President's visit will be a great success.
Office of Presidential Speechwriting
McGrath communts
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
-7 sext
su
next
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.
as
Weed and Seed is not so much a new spending program
a
whole new method of operating. / Here's how it works. As the
FFicers
first step: federal, state and local law enforcement ^ concentrate
their efforts on neighborhoods like this one. Working with you
I
- 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 safer
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
Note: Appropriations are by themselves
authorizations.
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
authorized
be one of them. Congress has appropriated the money -- but they
appropriated
haven't authorized it. I wouldn't bother you with these fine arcane
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
about
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.
where
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.
We need my comprehe package.
Tough talk is not enough. We néed 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-
of
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.
#
#
#
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: Sept. 26, 1992
ASAP
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
FACT SHEET: CRIME
SUBJECT:
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
GRAY
A
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
GROOMES
HORNER
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments directly to Roger Porter, 2nd Fl. /WW,
x2705 NO LATER THAN COB, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 with a copy to
this office.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 26, 1992
2 SEP 26 2 P12 : 47
MEMORANDUM FOR PHILLIP D. BRADY
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER
RBP
SUBJECT:
Crime Fact Sheet
A fact sheet that will be released in conjunction with the
President's speech on crime in St. Louis on Monday, September
28, 1992 is attached.
I would appreciate very much your staffing this fact sheet
with comments returned to my office as soon as possible.
Thank you very much.
Attachment
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 28, 1992
The President's Agenda for American Renewal:
Combatting Violent Crime
FACT SHEET
The President today announced that he is sending to the
Congress comprehensive crime legislation that includes new
provisions to:
Combat carjackings;
Strengthen child support enforcement;
Provide additional protection for victims of sexual and
domestic violence, and for the elderly;
Reduce violent gang activity; and
Increase penalties for criminal use of firearms.
The President's legislative proposal, which includes
provisions concerning the death penalty and the appeals process
in criminal cases, is designed to end the impasse in Congress and
to forge a consensus on crime legislation that can pass this
year.
Fundamental Principles
Four principles underlie the President's proposals for
comprehensive crime control:
A primary purpose of government is to protect citizens
and their property. Americans deserve to live in a
society in which they are safe and feel secure.
Those who commit violent criminal offenses should, and
must, be held accountable for their actions.
Our criminal justice system should seek the swift and
certain apprehension, prosecution, and incarceration of
those who break the law.
Success in accomplishing our criminal justice system
goals requires a sustained, cooperative effort by a
coalition of Federal, State, and local law enforcement
officials.
-2-
THE COMPREHENSIVE CRIME CONTROL ACT OF 1992
The President's proposed Comprehensive Crime Control Act of
1992 includes provisions:
I.
Combatting Carjacking
The President proposes making "carjacking" -- the forcible
theft of a motor vehicle -- a Federal crime. Carjackers
would face sentences of up to 20 years. If the offense
involves kidnapping, attempted murder or attempted
kidnapping, or resulted in serious bodily injury, the
carjacker could face life imprisonment. Those convicted of
a carjacking in which a death results could be sentenced to
death.
The President directed the Attorney General to convene a
task force to study the effectiveness of anti-theft devices
or other methods of deterring or preventing carjacking. He
also proposed to permit States to use Byrne grant funding
for anti-carjacking programs.
II. Strengthening Child Support Enforcement
The President proposed measures to improve enforcement of
child support orders, provide legal assistance to custodial
parents seeking to collect child support payments, and deny
certain Federal benefits to individuals delinquent in making
child support payments. The proposed legislation:
Makes failure to meet child support obligations, in
certain circumstances, a Federal crime. Under the
President's proposal, non-custodial parents who have
been delinquent for more than one year or who owe more
than $5,000 on their child support payments for a child
living in another State could be imprisoned for up to
six months. Second and subsequent offenses would carry
penalties of up to two years in prison;
Requires States to honor child support orders entered
in other States and to enforce them as if such orders
were issued in that State;
Requires full payment of child support obligations as a
condition for parole or supervised release from Federal
prison;
Prohibits Federal education and mortgage loans to
fathers who are more than three months delinquent in
their child support payments; and
-3-
Provides legal assistance to mothers who need help
collecting child support payments. Legal organizations
receiving funding from the Legal Services Corporation
must devote not less than ten percent of their services
to assisting mothers who need legal help to collect
past due child support payments.
III. Reducing Sexual and Domestic Violence
The President proposed measures to reduce sexual and
domestic violence, including:
A.
Increasing Penalties for Sexual Abuse
The President proposed to increase penalties for sex
crimes, by:
Authorizing the death penalty for murders
committed in the course of a sex offense;
Doubling the maximum penalty for repeat Federal
sex offenders;
Increasing penalties for many sex crimes committed
against victims under the age of 16 by broadening
the definition of "sexual act" with respect to
such crimes; and
Directing the United States Sentencing Commission
to increase penalties for the most serious sexual
assault cases and for sexual offenders with the
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who knowingly
risk infecting their victims.
B.
Protecting Victims
The President proposed to strengthen protections for
crime victims by:
Making it a Federal crime to travel across state
lines to commit spousal abuse, violate a
protective order or stalk a victim;
Authorizing pretrial detention for serious sex
offense cases where prosecutors prove that no
other measures can reasonably assure that the
defendant will not flee or pose a threat to the
safety of others;
-4-
Requiring HIV testing of those accused of sex
crimes and disclosure of the results to the victim
of the crime, and authorizing HIV testing of
victims at government expense; and
Directing the Attorney General to establish a
National Task Force on Violence Against Women to
recommend measures for combatting violence against
women.
The President proposed to create new rights for sexual
assault victims, including:
The right to bring a civil suit against the person
who committed the sexual offense;
Mandatory restitution by the defendant of the
victim's losses and expenses as a result of the
crime, expanded to include reimbursement for lost
income, child care, transportation and other
expenses due to participating in the investigation
and prosecution of the offense; and
The right for victims of sexual assaults and other
violent crimes to speak at sentencing.
The President also proposed to reform the Federal Rules
of Evidence to permit courts to admit evidence that the
defendant had committed similar acts in the past, and
to exclude evidence intended to show that the victim
invited the attack.
C.
Assisting State and Local Authorities
The President's proposed legislation includes $
in funding for grants to States and localities to
combat sexual and domestic violence. Law enforcement
grants of up to $1 million would be available to each
State that adopts laws concerning sexual violence that
are reasonably comparable to or exceed Federal law.
IV. Combatting Gang Activity
A. Creating an "Anti-Gang RICO" Law
The President's proposal creates a new Federal
offense providing severe penalties for crimes
committed by street gangs. This "Anti-Gang" RICO
law will enable Federal prosecutors, for the first
time, to prosecute entire criminal gangs, just as
the existing criminal RICO law has allowed the
-5-
prosecution of entire organized crime families. Anti-
gang RICO will carry tough mandatory minimum sentences,
including:
For a leadership role in any gang crime,
15 years; and
For a murder or attempted murder, 20
years, with the possibility of life
imprisonment or the death sentence.
B.
Increasing Penalties for Serious Juvenile
Offenders
These include:
Prosecuting serious juvenile offenders
as adults;
Significantly raising the penalties for
drug-related crimes near schools, near
public housing projects or involving
minors, as well as for any traditional
RICO crime involving a minor;
Retaining for law enforcement use the
records of serious juvenile offenders;
and
Sentencing adult armed career criminals
to a mandatory minimum 15 years in
prison for a third violent or serious
offense, by fully taking into account
serious drug offenses committed by them
as juveniles.
V.
Providing Additional Protection for the Elderly
Under the President's legislation, the Sentencing Commission
is directed to ensure that the sentencing guidelines for
Federal crimes adequately take into account an elderly
victim's vulnerability and result in sentences sufficiently
severe to deter violent crimes against the elderly.
VI. Combatting Criminal Use of Firearms
The President proposed to deter criminal use of firearms by
creating new Federal crimes involving firearms and steeply
increasing penalties for existing firearms offenses.
-6-
A.
Creating New Criminal Offenses
The President's legislation:
Creates a new Federal crime for smuggling
firearms into the United States for criminal
purposes, punishable by up to ten years in
prison;
Creates a new Federal crime for stealing
firearms or explosives, punishable by up to
ten years in prison;
Introduces new penalties for conspiracy to
commit any Federal firearms crime; and
Broadens the offense of possessing or dealing
in stolen firearms.
B.
Stiffening Prison Sentences
The President proposed to sharply increase penalties
for criminal use of firearms, including:
Doubling the mandatory minimum penalty for using a
semi-automatic gun in any violent Federal crime
from five years to ten years, and for a second
offense of using explosives to commit a felony
from ten years to twenty years;
Requiring a five year prison term for possession
of firearms or explosives by those previously
convicted of violent felonies or serious drug
crimes;
Increasing penalties for interstate gun
trafficking, causing it to be punishable by
up to ten years in prison;
Doubling the penalties for knowingly making a
false and material statement to a licensed
firearm dealer while purchasing a firearm,
from five years to ten years;
Imposing a mandatory five year penalty for
use of firearms in counterfeiting or forgery;
and
Imposing a prison term of up to ten
years for stealing firearms or
explosives from a licensed firearm
dealer.
-7-
In addition, any Federal criminal possessing a firearm
in violation of the terms of his supervised release
would be sent back to prison.
In an attempt to break the impasse in the Congress
concerning comprehensive crime legislation and find common ground
to forge an agreement, the President's legislation incorporates
provisions that have previously been approved by both Houses of
Congress.
VII. Reforming the Appeals Process in Capital Cases
The President announced that he will accept the Powell
Commission's proposal for reforming the habeas corpus
process for appealing convictions in capital cases, which
has previously been approved by both Houses of Congress.
The Powell Commission, a bipartisan commission headed by
former Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., issued its
recommendations for habeas reform in 1989.
VIII. Creating an Effective Federal Death Penalty
The President's proposal authorizes the Federal death
penalty for "drug kingpins," for murders committed in drive-
by shootings or in connection with drug trafficking, murders
of Federal law enforcement officers or State and local
officers assisting Federal officers, murders of witnesses,
and murders by terrorists and assassins. The bill also
establishes procedures and standards for imposing the death
penalty.
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,
1 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. 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. //
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.
#
#
#
09/25/92 19:08
214 670 5661
DAL POLICE PIO
001/004
DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT
Public Information Office
Facsimile Transmission
Coo TEXAS DALLVS
FAX NUMBER 214-670-5661
TELEPHONE 214-670-5510
DATE:
TO:
NAME:
michelle N14
LOCATION:
TELEPHONE:
FROM:
NAME:
EASpenue
LOCATION:
TELEPHONE:
COMMENTS:
NUMBER OF PAGES:
INCLUDING COVER
09/25/92
19:08
214 670 5661
DAL POLICE PIO
002/004
Wow stort
CRIME IN DALLAS
Crime in Dallas--especially violent crime--is being reduced dramati-
cally. If current trends continue, the city in 1992 will experience the
most significant decrease in crime in almost a half century*. Through
the first eight months of 1992, Dallas has had 14,185 fewer crimes
than in the first eight months of 1991. The city has experienced
three consecutive years of overall decreases in major offenses.
Year-to-date figures through August of 1992 reflect a reduction in
crime of 13.7 percent. The violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery
and aggravated assault are down 14.1 percent.
Murder in Dallas has been down for eight consecutive months.
Through the end of August, 77 fewer people had been slain in Dallas
than in the same eight-month period in 1991. Rape has been down
for seven consecutive months. Robbery has been down eight consecu-
tive months and aggravated assault has been down for six months.
Police service is divided into six geographic arcas of the city and all
categories of Index crimes are down in all six of those areas.
Crime in the Central Business District (CBD), where the Department
has increased deployment of officers dramatically, is down 37 per-
cent through the first eight months of this year. Violent crime in
the CBD is down 41 percent.
The trends in violent crime represent a sharp turnaround from early
1991 when monthly increases in violent crime were registering in
double-digit percentages.
Factors:
>S.A.F.E. (described in the attached)
>Dramatic increases in funding for public safety services. In the
last five years, the City Council has authorized the hiring of an
additional 600 police officers. Currently (9-25-92), the Dallas Police
Department has 2,877 police officers. The Police Department budget
has been increased 41 percent since the 1985-86 fiscal year. This
year's funding is in excess of $53 million more than was spent for
police in the 1985-86 fiscal year.
>Increased staffing in the Department's Gang Unit and Homicide
Unit. Gang-related offenses in Dallas are down 21 percent this year
while homicides have been decreased 22.6 percent.
09/25/92
19:09
214 670 5661
DAL POLICE PIO
003/004
-2-
>Creation of Street Narcotics Squads to address demand reduction.
>Enhanced interagency teamwork with state and federal authori-
ties, including aggressive federal prosecution of selected cases.
Agencies include, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement
Administration, Secret Service, Immigration and Naturalization Scrv
ice, United States Attorney, United States Customs Service, United
States Marshals Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,
Internal Revenue Service and the United States Postal Service.
>Added emphasis on developing positive partnerships with citizens.
This includes establishing a Neighborhood Liaison Officer program,
creating a Citizens Police Academy, establishing an Expanded Neigh-
borhood Patrol program, expanding Crime Watch involvement and
embarking on a program to deploy mobile storefronts.
>A Violent Crime Task Force made possible by a $1 million alloca-
tion from the City Council to fund overtime. The Task Force was
composed of veteran officers who concentrated enforcement efforts
in high-crime areas of the city. In 28 weeks, members of the Task
Force made 2,064 arrests and confiscated 227 weapons. They per-
formed their work without generating a single personnel complaint
from the community.
>Enhanced truancy enforcement. Last school year, officers re-
turned 8,700 truants to school, an increase of 52 percent from the
preceding year. More than 1,100 school age children were arrested
for major crimes during school hours in the 1991-92 school year.
"In 1943, crime in Dallas decreased 16.7 percent. The next most significant decrease was in
1954, when crime decreased 14.1 percent. If the current rate of decline for 1992 continues, the
city will exceed the 1954 decrease and may even exceed the decrease recorded in 1943.
09/25/92
19:09
214 670 5661
DAL POLICE PIO
004/004
VIOLENT CRIME IN DALLAS FROM JUNE 15, 1989 - SEPTEMBER 24, 1992
MURDER
RAPE
ROBBERY
AGGRAVATED
TOTAL
ASSAULT
JUNE 15 - DEC 1989
199
610
5519
5837
12165
1990
447
1344
10566
12194
24551
1991
500
1208
11253
13450
26411
JAN - SEPT 24, 1992
295
835
7273
8373
16776
TOTAL
1441
3997
34611
39854
79903
09/25/92 15:04 214 670 5661
DAL POLICE PIO
001/006
DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT
POLICE
Public Information Office
Facsimile Transmission
TEXAS SALES
FAX NUMBER 214-670-5661
TELEPHONE 214-670-5510
DATE:
9/25/92
TO:
NAME:
Michelle Nix
LOCATION:
TELEPHONE:
FROM:
NAME:
Ed Spenier
LOCATION:
TELEPHONE:
COMMENTS:
NUMBER OF PAGES: 6 INCLUDING COVER
09/25/92
15:05
214 670 5661
DAL POLICE PIO
002/006
CRIME IN DALLAS
Crime in Dallas--especially violent crime--is being reduced dramati-
cally. If current trends continue, the city in 1992 will experience the
most significant decrease in crime in almost a half century*. Through
the first cight months of 1992, Dallas has had 14,185 fewer crimes
than in the first eight months of 1991.
Year-to-date figures through August of 1992 reflect a reduction in
crime of 13.7 percent. The violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery
and aggravated assault are down 14.1 percent.
Murder in Dallas has been down for eight consecutive months.
Through the end of August, 77 fewer people had been slain in Dallas
than in the same eight-month period in 1991. Rape has been down
for seven consecutive months. Robbery has been down eight consecu-
tive months and aggravated assault has been down for six months.
Police service is divided into six geographic areas of the city and all
categories of Index crimes are down in all six of those areas.
Crime in the Central Business District (CBD), where the Department
has increased deployment of officers dramatically, is down 37 per-
cent through the first eight months of this year. Violent crime in
the CBD is down 41 percent.
The trends in violent crime represent a sharp turnaround from early
1991 when monthly increases in violent crime were registering in
double-digit percentages. However, the city has experienced three
consecutive years of overall decreases in Index offenses.
Factors:
>S.A.F.E. (described in the attached)
>Increased staffing in the Department's Gang Unit and Homicide
Unit. Gang-related offenses in Dallas are down 21 percent this year
while homicides have been decreased 22.6 percent.
>Creation of Street Narcotics Squads to address demand reduction.
09/25/92
15:05
214 670 5661
DAL POLICE PIO
003/006
-2-
>Enhanced interagency teamwork with state and federal authori-
ties, including aggressive federal prosecution of selected cases.
Agencies include, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement
Administration, Secret Service, Immigration and Naturalization Serv
ice, United States Attorney, United States Customs Service, United
States Marshals Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,
Internal Revenue Service and the United States Postal Service.
>A Violent Crime Task Force made possible by a $1 million alloca-
tion from the City Council to fund overtime. The Task Force was
composed of veteran officers who concentrated enforcement efforts
in high-crime areas of the city. In 28 weeks, members of the Task
Force made 2,064 arrests and confiscated 227 weapons. They per-
formed their work without generating a single personnel complaint
from the community.
>Enhanced truancy enforcement. Last school year, officers TC-
turned 8,700 truants to school, an increase of 52 percent from the
preceding year. More than 1,100 school age children were arrested
for major crimes during school hours in the 1991-92 school year.
>Overall growth in the size of the Dallas Police Department. In
the last five years, the City Council has authorized the hiring of an
additional 600 police officers. Currently (9-25-92), the Dallas Police
Department has 2,877 police officers.
"In 1943, crime in Dallas decreased 16.7 percent. The next most significant decrease was in
1954, when crime decreased 14.1 percent. If the current rate of decline for 1992 continues, the
city will exceed the 1954 decrease and may even exceed the decrease recorded in 1943.
09/25/92
15:06
214 670 5661
DAL POLICE PIO
004/006
4515 SWISS AVENUE
The June 5, 1992, seizure of an apartment building at 4515 Swiss in
East Dallas is an example of the Dallas Police Department's new
emphasis on upgrading the quality of life in neighborhoods through
a non-traditional approach similar in concept to the Weed and Seed
program.
Prior to the seizure on June 5 by local and federal authorities, police
had invested tremendous resources in trying to control the drug trade
occurring at the 16-unit apartment building. In 28 months, police
had responded to 430 calls for service to the address and made
numerous arrests. On the afternoon of April 10 alone during a re-
verse sting operation at the location, officers arrested 117 persons
who came to the apartment to buy crack cocaine.
It is estimated that drug activity from the location was producing as
much as $25,000 to $30,000 per day in revenue.
The June 5 scizure was spearhcaded by the Department's new S.A.F.E.
(Support Abatement Forfeiture Enforcement) Team created in Au-
gust, 1991, by Police Chief Bill Rathburn. Working closely with
S.A.F.E. were members of the United States Attorney's Office and the
United States Marshals Service. In subsequent court proceedings, the
property was permitted to be sold to an individual acting for a local
accounting firm specializing in construction and real estate account-
ing. Approximately $12,000 from the sale was awarded back to the
Dallas Police Department.
Response to the seizure from area residents has been overwhelmingly
positive. On the day local and federal officials took custody of the
property, nearby residents applauded as a banner announcing the
action was unfurled. A local Crime Watch co-chair was quoted in
the local newspaper as saying she "...couldn't be happier."
Chief Rathburn said at the time: "The good people are on notice:
There is hope. The criminals are on notice that we are going to do
everything we can to deal with you one way or another."
S.A.F.E. is composed of representatives of various city departments
including, the City Attorney's Office, Fire Department, Streets and
Sanitation and Housing and Neighborhood Services. The S.A.F.E.
Team targets for seizure real property used in narcotics and other
types of illegal activities. The scizures are accomplished through
federal and state Forfeiture statutes. Closure of other properties is
accomplished through nuisance abatement statutes.
09/25/92
15:06
214 670 5661
DAL POLICE PIO
005/006
-2-
Earlier in the year (January 2, 1992), S.A.F.E. also teamed with the
United States Attorney's Office and Marshal's Service to seize several
propertics in West Dallas. The owner of the properties was carning
as much as $20,000 daily dealing drugs. Involved were seven dwell-
ings, four small businesses and two vacant lots. In April following a
court settlement, the businesses were sold to the operators who had
been renting them. The houses were razed and two new homes were
constructed on the location by a non-profit housing organization.
In similar actions by the Dallas Police Department, a crack house in
South Dallas was closed by S.A.F.E. after several years of activity
and traditional enforcement that had included the serving of 18
warrants. Earlier, officers obtained court orders to close a drug
house in Oak Cliff after a series of traditional drug raids had failed
to deter narcotics trafficking at the location.
09/25/92
15:06
214 670 5661
DAL POLICE PIO
5
006/006
VIOLENT CRIME IN DALLAS FROM JUNE 15, 1989 - AUGUST 31, 1992
MURDER
RAPE
ROBBERY
AGGRAVATED
TOTAL
ASSAULT
JUNE 15 - DEC 1989
199
610
5519
1990
5837
12165
447
1344
10566
1991
12194
24551
500
1208
11253
13450
JAN - - AUG 1992
26411
264
76
6622
7708
15355
TOTAL
1410
3923
33960
39189
78482
McGroarty/Nix
September 25, 1992
12:30 p.m.
200 2 25 P2:
DALLAS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
TIME?? 2:45 P.M.
Thank you,
,
for those kind words -- and thanks, all of
you, for this warm welcome. [Acknowledgements]
are 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 aggravated 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 weekends crack den. Not as home -- but as a house of horror.
Some nights, as many as 100 cars lined Swiss Street, Avenue
bringing customers in search of heroin and crack-cocaine 6 and
marijuana. Addicts used to roam this neighborhood, offering to
do odd jobs for 10 dollars -- the price of a crack high. One
Hin FUNCE 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. //
5
But all that has changed and -- changed the morning of August June
Dallas Police
XX, the day U.S. Marshals ^ swept in and seized this building.
That day hundreds 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, 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.
HID 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
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
Conoress,
50 OR
in 30 more communities -- and I know East Dallas would like to be
nolDallas
one of them. They appropriated the money -- but they haven't
Congress has
^
prob.
authorized it. I wouldn't bother you with these fine
Congressional distinctions -- but I have to: Because until
Pronoun
Congress acts, Dallas -- or any American it city for that matter --
S
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. //
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
I:
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
DRe-
her small daughter to her first day of nursery A school. They
onto the Roado
dragged the woman 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 commonplace. 11
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 1201, today in St. Louis.
Congress has sat on my crime package for 1215 days. One thousand
one
two hundred and fifteen 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. 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 1110 Lell them what's
1,201
been happening since the crime clock started ticking 215 days
ago. one thousand 1201 two hundred and one day ago.
In those 1215 days -- here in Dallas alone -- [XXX] people
have been murdered.
1201
people
In those 1215 days -- [xxx] have been raped.
1201
^
2
This is
In those 1215 days -- [xxxx] innocent people have been
inclusive
victims of violent crime. 11
of #s for
1201
murder t
Each one of those 1215 days, another innocent I person becomes
a statistic. //
Sounds Rape. here
Well, we don't have another day to waste.
like it's its
Let's get our cities and our citizens and our cops the help
own number. separate
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.
#
FACT CHECK COPY
McGroarty/Nix
September 25, 1992
9:00 a.m.
DALLAS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
EAST DALLAS COMMUNITY CRIME EVENT
DALLAS, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 28, 1992
Advance
TIME?? 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
are
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
Rd
cycle of violence in America. In the past year, overall crime in
the city of Dallas is down 13.7%. Violent crime -- murder, rape,
Chiefof Eyencer
aggravated
robbery, assault -- has dropped 14.1%. //
Police office
That's good news that represents so many hours of hard work
Release Press
for the Dallas police, for the Crime Watch groups like [Mill
(214)6702 3692
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 --
Brad
literally, right next door. You know The Mohawk as a crime
cates U.S.
haven. A crack den. Not as home -- but as a house of horror
Avenue
AAORNEY
Some nights, as many as 100 cars lined Swiss Street,
Dallas
bringing customers in search of heroin and crack cocaine and
(214)767-0951
marijuana. Addicts used to roam this neighborhood, offering to
do odd jobs for 10 dollars -- the price of a crack high. One
U.S. Marshall Service, together with
the Dollas Police Dept,
2
us
day, a crackhead fired a gun at one of the neighbors sitting on
PRess
their front porch. And in two months' time last spring, police
Release Aug C made
more than 200 arrests at this one address alone.
//
But all that has changed changed the morning of August
June
police and federal agents swept U.S. Marshall Service
XX
the day M.S. Marshals swept in and seized this building.
Barbara Nichol
That day hundreds many of you came out to cheer -- to celebrate the
Brad Cates
day law came back to this street.
769-0951 (214)9
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, 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.
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
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 /
Andrea
at one time / in a true working partnership with the community.
Anilliand
Weed and Seed is already up and running in Ft. Worth -- and
19
in 20 other cities across the country. / This year, I asked the
bile
1152
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
Congress has
one of them. They' ve appropriated the money -- but they haven't
Dat's
50
authorized it. I wouldn't bother you with these fine
Tim
more
or
Congressional distinctions -- but I have to: Because until
Shay
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
Sebrah 4 Daniels
inaction.
say
What you're doing here puts you on the side of the angels.
50 or
But you can't do it alone. You can't do it if the system mocks
more
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
empty
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
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 onto
door window H 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:
drawn
We ve got to draw the line. // We will find you.
st. Louis
I'll say right here what I said earlier today in St. Louis.
1201
Speech
Congress has sat on my crime package for 1215 days. One thousand
one
two hundred and fifteen days. //
Congress says it won't move without gun control. Well, so Policy
be it: I will accept a gun control bill -- if -- if the Congress
ok
passes my comprehensive crime package. //
Stilous
Contact
your
Tough talk is not enough. We need more prisons, more police
-- more swift and certain punishment. We need a federal death
rep.
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. //
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
Affairs
October. But let's put those last few days to good use. Keep
3330
the lights on late if you have to -- but pass my comprehensive
to Oct Oct 3or 5th 302
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 1,215 days
one thousand
ago. two hundred 1201 often andone days ago
1,410
In those 1215 days -- here in Dallas alone -- [xxx] people
have been murdered
1201
3923 people
In those 1215 days
--
1201
[xxx] 78,482 have been raped. 11
In those 1215 days -- [XHXX] innocent people have been
victims of violent crime.
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. //
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.
#
#
#
In those 120B days , XXX children have lost their
parents.
violent crime has taken a parent
from XXX children
New
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. //
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. //
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. //
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.
#
#
#
FAX
STATEMENTS $ BIRESS RBBS
FACSIMILE COVER PAGE
To:
Michelle Nix
From: STEVEN HOPSON
Time: 17:20:56
Date: 9/25/92
Pages (including cover): 2
Michelle Nix,
Attached please find the statistics that you requested.
Steve Hopson
9/25/92 17:21:11
FAX FROM STEVEN HOPSON TO: Michelle Nix (8,202-456-6218)
Page 2 of 2
Dallas Murder and Violent Crime
From July 1 1989 to June 31, 1992
Crime
Offenses
Murders
1,337
Rapes
3,695
Violent Crimes
73,676
Murder Victims Age 16 and Under
81
Source: Texas Department of Public Safety
Uniform Crime Reporting 9/25/92
More than 81
children have
been mudered
NewsReLease
POLICE
DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT
FOR RELEASE
June 5, 1992
Time
Date
SVITIS
TEXAS
DEPARTMENT
Dallas Mayor Steve Bartlett, United States Attorney Marvin Collins
and Police Chief Bill Rathburn today announced the unsealing of a
Federal asset forfeiture seizure case against a 16-unit apartment
complex at 4515 Swiss Ave., in Dallas.
Pursuant to the Federal Court Order, the building was seized at 11
a.m. by United States Marshal Bruce Beaty following a raid by the
Marshal's Service and the Dallas Police Department.
Today's seizure follows a Thursday undercover operation at the
same location by Dallas Police which resulted in the arrest of 35
persons on narcotics charges.
On April 10, undercover narcotics of ficers arrested over 100 indi-
viduals for narcotics offenses at the location.
Present at the seizure this morning along with the Mayor, Mr.
Collins, Chief Rathburn and Marshal Beaty were, Phil Jordan, Spe-
cial Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration; Chris
Luna and Glenn Box, members of the Dallas City Council; and A. C.
Gonzalez, assistant city manager.
Also on hand were members of the Department's S.A.F.E. Team.
S.A.F.E. is composed of police of ficers and representatives of Housing
and Neighborhood Services, the City Attorney's Office and Fire
Department. Working together, they focus enforcement initiatives
against owners and managers of sub-standard properties often used
in criminal activities.
"Our presence here today is another good example of our commit-
ment to making Dallas a safer place for all citizens," Chief Rath-
burn said. "We proved again yesterday that this particular property
is a breeding ground for criminal activity and the only alternative is
to seize it."
The building was sealed pending the federal court proceedings, and
innocent tenants were provided alternative housing by various volun-
teer social service agencies from the community.
P.12
24 '92 10:31AM USAO DTF DALLAS
U.S. Attorney Collins said, "We are here today to show that citizen
involvement can make a difference in turning around the drug use
and violence that afflicts too many of our inner city neighborhoods.
This is a beautiful area of our city. Many hundreds of hard working
citizens have reclaimed old mansions, houses, and apartments and
turned them into showpieces of self help urban redevelopment. The
Munger Historic and Swiss Avenue Districts are prime examples of
citizens working to improve their lives, and at the same time of
making this city a better place to live."
"However," Collins said, "a fundamental element of redevelopment
is the personal security of the citizens. People's homes and persons
have to be secure from the threat of random violence. That is a
basic service needed and in fact demanded by our citizens."
"Individual citizens, homeowners, and others have come to us with
information about various crimes in this otherwise growing and
vibrant community. At this location alone in the last 28 months, the
Dallas Police Department has responded to complaints an average of
once every other day, and written an average of four offense reports
a month.
"We are closely looking at other properties in this general area as
well," Collins added. "In this war to reclaim our inner cities, we
hope all landlords will take an active part in reporting violations of
the law.
"The Federal Courts have been very clear about this issue. A 1988
federal court case from Houston stated, 'A building used to sell crack
in any neighborhood is a nuisance for which a landlord must be held
responsible A landlord cannot escape accountability to the communi-
ty in which he operates by refusing to investigate suspicious facts
and allegations of illegal use.
"Attorney General William Barr has recently announced a new
Department of Justice Weed and Seed initiative, in which criminals
are weeded from a neighborhood, and useful productive housing and
services replace them," Collins said. "In a successful operation earlier
this year, Dallas Member Mattie Nash and citizens on Nomas Street
in West Dallas have seen how community involvement can turn
around their neighborhood. Working with Mayor Bartlett, Council-
men Luna, Box, and others, we today announce that the citizens and
their government are going to make a positive effect on this area of
East Dallas as well."
In the last 28 months at 4515 Swiss, officers received 430 calls for
police services to the address. Prior to Thursday's activity, there had
been 140 arrests at the location, 86 of them related to narcotics
offenses. These figures do not include the misdemeanor arrests of
April 10 and yesterday for solicitation to purchase a controlled
substance.
In February of this year, officers executed a search warrant at the
location and made three arrests and seizures of 4.5 grams of cocaine,
Et'd
SEP 24 '92 10:32AM USAO DTF DALLAS
6 grams of heroin, 2.5 grams of marijuana and 11 grams of emycin.
Additionally on April 10. officers again executed a search warrant
and made three additional arrests and seized another 16.3 grams (82
rocks) of crack cocaine.
Based on the arrests made in April, officers estimated that drug
activity at the location was producing between $25,000 and $30,000
per day.
-30-
NOTE TO REPORTERS: For additional information, contact Assist-
ant U.S. Atty. Brad Cates at 767-0951.
P.14
SEP 24 '92 10:32AM USAO DTF DALLAS
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas
1100 Commerce Street, Room 16G28
Dallas, Texas 73242
DATE:
9/14/92
PLEASE NOTIFY THE PERSON NAMED BELOW OF THE RECEIPT OF THIS FAX:
Name:
michelle Nix
Office:
Phone:
FAX: 2024566218
From:
BRAd CATeS
Office of the United States Attorney
1100 Commerce, Room 16G28
Dallas, Texas 75242-1699
FTS: 729-0951
COMM: (214) 767-0951
FAX: FTS: 729-8764
FAX: COMM: (214) 767-8764
Total number of pages (includes cover sheet) :
18
COMMENTS:
relating To EAST DAILAS
I'd
SEP 24 '92 10:25AM USAO DTF DALLAS
Metropolitan
Sunday, August 9, 1992
© 1952. The Dallas Morning News
The Ballas Morning Nelus
# HING vu rage JUA.
New owner plans to fix up former crack house
By Tracy Everbach
house shot at a resident who was on his front
the neighborhood," said Ann Fells, who lives
Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
porch. Finally, the federal government
in a renovated prairie-style home less than a
On weekends, more than 100 cars with
stepped in.
hundred yards from the former crack house.
crack customers would line the lower end of
Last week, after only two months, it
"Before it shut down, there were so many
Swiss Avenue. Addicts roamed the block,
stepped back out. But it left the 16-unit his-
cars there that the bedroom was completely
sometimes offering to do yard work for $10
toric apartment house in the hands of a new
lit up all night."
-
the cost of a quick hit.
owner, who has pledged to renovate the
The U.S. Marshals Service seized the
Neighbors repeatedly called 911 and com-
building into units for four families - one
apartment building, on Swiss between Car-
plained to police, City Hall and whoever else
of them his own.
roll and Moreland avenues, through & fed-
would listen. Then dealers at the crack
I believe this can make a difference in
Please see NEW OWNER on Page 32A.
Gag 32 A
The Ballas Morning News
Sunday, August 9, 1992 I
§
C
P
The Dollas Morning News: Cindy Yamanaka
V
From left: Dirk Maddox, Cheryl Harley and Steve Clicque
11
plan to renovate the Swiss Avenue apartment building be-
-
hind them, which was a crack house.
(
2'd
SEP 24 '92 10:25AM USAO DTF DALLAS
one LACO Piano
for former crack house
Continued from Page 29A.
eral law that al-
"It's a continuing battle.
lows the government to take prop-
Our area combines
1
erty used in drug trafficking. Under
middle-income people
the law, the owner of the property
I
must be aware of the activity and
with some of the most
must not have done anything to
desperate people in
stop it.
Dallas."
That civil forfeiture action was
- Michael Fells,
:
settled Thursday when the former
owner sold the property to the new
Swiss Avenue resident
owner, with federal approval.
Mrs. Fells said that she and her
grand plans for the tan brick, red
husband, Michael, along with other
tile-roofed structure. He wants to
concerned members of the Mill
transform the 16 units from deterio-
Creek Homeowners Association,
rated tenements to remodeled 2,700-
called police countless times to re-
square-foot units. He also bought an
port activities at the crack house.
empty lot next door for parking and
But hundreds of arrests and several
intends to erect a fence around the
raids later, the trafficking hadn't
property.
stopped.
"I think the reaction we got from
"It was a nightmare," said an-
the community shows there is a
other neighbor who asked not to be
core group of people interested in
named. "It was way out of bounds
the way the neighborhood devel-
for what this neighborhood has
ops," he said.
seen in the 23 years we've lived
here."
Mr. Clicque, who co-owns Mad-
dox and Associates CPAs of Dallas,
Eight weeks after federal mar-
had planned to buy the mission.
shals and police took over the 1920s-
style building before the marshals
era building, known as The
seized it - as long as the former
Mohawk, those drug dealers are
owner first moved out the drug
gone. They haven't gone far, how-
dealers.
ever. According to residents, the
ones who weren't arrested have
The marshals, he said, "took care
simply moved around the corner.
of that for us."
"It's a continuing battle," said
Yet the accountant's deal with
Mr. Fells, the resident who was
the government came only after the
nearly shot. "Our area combines
U.S. attorney's office investigated
middle-income people with some of
him.
the most desperate people in Dal-
las."
"He had no relation to the previ-
ous owner, so we decided it would
Since the government seized and
boarded up The Mohawk in June,
be fair to let the sale go through."
said Assistant U.S. Attorney Brad
the Fellses have stopped people
Cates, who handled the forfeiture
trying to steal air conditioners from
case.
the property. They have, nailed
boards back over windows. They
Seizing and selling The Mohawk
have reported prostitutes working
netted the Dallas Police Depart-
on their street. They watch at all
ment and U.S. Justice Department
hours.
about $15,000 - the sum the former
"My husband goes out at night
owner paid to settle the civil action.
with a flashlight and a butcher
Neither Mr. Clièque nor the govern.
knife," Mrs. Fells said.
ment would disclose how much he
paid for the property.
The couple are among several
urban pioneer families who bought
Federal authorities and police
and renovated homes in the his-
say they plan to continue taking
toric district. The latest is the new
control of buildings used in drug
owner of The Mohawk, Steve
activity and turning them over to
Cliente who, with partners Dirk
reputable residents in a
DALLAS
DTF
OUSN
WA92:01
26,
24
d3S
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division
1100 Commerce Street, Room 16G28
214-767-0951
Dallas, Texas 75242-1699
FTS 767-0951
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DALLAS, TEXAS
CONTACT: 214/767-0951
AUGUST 6, 1992
United States Attorney Marvin Collins today announced that a recently seized historic
apartment complex has been sold pursuant to a U.S. District Court Order signed in Dallas
today, and most of the proceeds distributed to the Dallas Police Department.
5
On June 6, 1992, U.S. Marshal Bruce Beaty, acting in conjunction with the Dallas Police
Department, seized The Mohawk, an historically significant 16 unit apartment on prestigious
Swiss Avenue in east Dallas. Police Department records indicate that the street narcotics units
had made more than 200 narcotics related arrests at this location in April and May. With U.S.
Attorney Collins, Mayor Steve Bartlett, DEA Dallas SAC Phil Jordan and Chief Bill Rathburn
present at the seizure, neighbors cheered and clapped as a large banner announcing the
seizure was tied to the front of the building.
The Mohawk, located at 4515 Swiss, was built in the mid- 1920s in a Mission Revival style with
Alamo detail, but had fallen into disrepair in recent years and was only partially occupied at
the time of seizure. Innocent tenants were offered alternative housing by Dallas social service
Remember the Ham!
-MORE-
P.4
SEP 24 '92 10:27AM USAO DTF DALLAS
agencies on the date of the seizure.
According to Collins, the average time to resolve a forfeiture case involving real estate is 18
months, and that this resolution in less than two months is perhaps the shortest time noted in
Justice Department records. He attributed the quick resolution to the background preparation
by the Dallas Police Department S.A.F.E. forfeiture unit, the information gathered by
neighborhood groups about the illegal drug activity at the property, the support in the seizure
and rezoning process by Mayor Bartlett and Councilman Chris Luna, and the strength of the
legal case against the property.
Under federal forfeiture laws, it is not necessary to charge or convict the owner of criminal
activity. Once it has been shown that the owner had knowledge of the illegal activity, and did
not use reasonable efforts to prevent the illegal activity, the property may be forfeited.
In the sale announced today, Steve Clicque acted on behalf of Maddox and Associates,
C.P.A.s, a local accounting firm primarily specializing in construction and real estate
accounting, to purchase the property for an undisclosed sum and assume certain debts and
obligations. An irrevocable trust was created to prevent the former owner from ever regaining
control of the property. "The partners of the Maddox firm plan to live in the units and do
most of the rehabilitation work themselves," Clicque said.
$15,000 was paid from the closing to the United States Marshal and was forfeited by the Court
Order. Approximately $12,000 of this money will be equitably shared with the Dallas Police
Department. According to Police Chief Bill Rathburn, the $12,000 will be used by the S.A.F.E.
-MORE-
S'd
SEP 24 '92 10:27AM USAO DTF DALLAS
Team to fund future seizures. " We are definitely planning to work with U.S. Attorney Collins
to seize other such crack houses or apartments in the near future," Rathburn said.
Buyer Clicque said # This is an exciting project and we look forward to the developments and
opportunity in this area of Dallas. We feel that we will be a part of the growing movement to
revitalize this inner city corridor that we feel will eventually stretch from downtown to
Lakewood. The neighborhood has been very supportive and we look forward to being a part
of it."
Clieque continued " When we first became interested in the Mohawk we were skeptical. We
felt that working with federal prosecutors and city government planners, as well as with all the
neighbors, on such a short time frame, would be impossible. We were very pleasantly surprised
with the level of support we received in meeting our needs to move forward quickly. I expect
to be living in the building and beginning the renovation in just three or four more weeks!"
A rezoning petition was necessary to utilize the apartment, as the lot contained no parking
spaces and the misuse of the property had caused the zoning to revert to single family use
only. Although rezoning was initially opposed by thirty or SO neighbors at the July 16 meeting
of the Dallas Planning and Zoning Commission, the U.S. Attorney and Mr. Clicque negotiated
a compromise which was endorsed by the Mill Creek Homeowners Association. Mr. Clicque
has purchased a vacant lot next to the Mohawk, and on July 23 the Dallas Planning and
Zoning Commission unanimously approved the recommendation of a rezoning of the
property into an eight unit density with parking access on the vacant lot.
-MORE-
9'd
SEP 24 '92 10:28AM USAO DTF DALLAS
Final zoning approval is required by the City Council at its August meeting, but Councilman
Chris Luna, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem, has announced his support of the compromise and
passage is expected.
Councilman Luna said, "I am excited that this historic property is going to be a positive
addition to our inner city housing stock. This redevelopment is a product of the city
government working together with the federal government to improve our neighborhoods. We
will continue to be aggressive in seizing property where illegal activity has taken place. We will
put the drug dealers out of business house by house, block by block, and neighborhood by
neighborhood. The neighbors deserve a big thanks for helping us turn a nuisance into an
asset."
Mill Creek Homeowners Association President Robert Kam said " The neighborhood is
encouraged with the outcome of this project to date appreciate the efforts of everyone
involved, including the U.S. Attorney, S.A.F.E. Team at the police department, and the
project's developers. By continuing these crime fighting tactics, the inner city neighborhoods
will become even more desireable residential locations."
United States Attorney Marvin Collins said "We are working with Mayor Bartlett and Chief
Rathburn and Phil Jordan at the DEA to develop a more comprehensive forfeiture strategy
for apartment complexes where such open and notorious drug dealing is occurring. I expect we
will see more of these types of seizures soon."
-MORE-
P.7
SEP 24 '92 10:28AM USAO DTF DALLAS
Collins explained that these seizures are being facilitated by recent policy changes initiated by
Attorney General William Barr and known as "weed and seed". " The object is to weed out
undesirable criminal elements, and seed the neighborhood with a beneficial use of the property
at the conclusion of the court case." Collins said.
In April, nine properties seized from the Harmon drug organization were forfeited in west
Dallas utilizing the same weed and seed program. Four of the properties were sold to small
neighborhood business owners. The remaining five lots were cleared and donated to Dallas
City Homes, Inc., a non profit private housing organization, for the construction of moderate
income housing. Several new homes are currently under construction, and are expected to cost
approximately $35,000 each. Other than interim construction loans provided by the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development, no government money is involved in the
construction of these houses. The Dallas Police Department is expected to receive over
$35,000 to its narcotics unit as its equitable share of the proceeds of the Harmon properties
forfeitures.
For further information, please contact Assistant United States Attorney Brad Cates on legal
issues, or Barbara Nichol on press matters, at 214-767-0951.
####
8'd
SEP 24 '92 10:29AM USAO DTF DALLAS
Metropolitan
News
The Ballas Morning News
INSIDE
AD STATE PAOFERTY Swehe
Apartments seized
U.S.
Police and federal agents seize an East Dal-
las apartment complex that they say has
DALLAS
been a virtual open-air market for illegal drug
sales.
Page 34A.
Teen indicted
15-year-old Frisco youth has been
dicted on a capital murder charge in the fate:
nooting of his girifriend's mother. Page 35A.
Teen cleared In death
A 19-year-old who thought he had shot and
The Dallas Morning News: Tamoury J. Vrettes
killed his best friend after a dance at Lincoin
High School in April learns that bailistics
Neighbors gather as an apartment building
tests have cleared him and that charges will
is seized by police and federal agents.
be dropped.
Page 36A.
6'd
SEP 24 '92 10:29AM USAO DTF DALLAS
34 A
The Balias Morning News
Saturday, June 6. 1992
e
as
IS
9.
:-
g
o
if
e
a
o
5
1
e
The Dallas Morning News: Temmy J. Prestos
n
Neighbors gather as an apartment building
three city social agencies were on hand to
at 4515 Swiss Ave. is seized by police and
help tenants move to new apartments. Only
federal agents Friday. Representatives of
four of 16 units were occupied.
i-
Police seize apartment building
e
a
t
Site reportedly was
m
1
market for drug sales
By Al Brumlev
I
Staff Writer 6 The Dallas Morning News
Police and federal agents seized
an East Dallas apartment building
Friday that they said has been a vir-
tual open-air market for illegal
drug sales.
During the past 28 months. po-
lice responded to 430 calls at the
Swiss Avenue building and made
more than 200 arrests. officials said.
Drugs available included mari-
juana. heroin and crack cocaine. po-
lice said.
Temporary ownership of the
property tas been transferred to
the U.S. Marshais Service. Officials
will go to federal court to try to gain
title to the property at 4515 Swiss
Ave. and convert the building to
The Dellar Morning News: Tommy
public use.
From left: Frank Garza, Nancy Herrman. Meng Ngo and
If we re going to have quality
Carl Jonas applaud as law enforcement officials seize an
housing and quality neighbor-
hoods. we nave got to deal with the
apartment building in their neighborhood Friday.
PT'D
SEP 24 '92 10: 30AM USAO DTF DALLAS
Juneizure
drug problem." said City Council
member Chris Luna. who was on
"Today is tangible
on. Mr. Herrera said. He and his
hand Friday with other city leaders
wife have lived in the building
to watch the seizure. "And that's
evidence that when we
about a year. and he did not know
what we're doing here today.
all work together, we
Friday where they were going to be
"Today is tangible evidence that
moved.
when we all work together, we can
can make a difference."
Police Chief Bill Rathburn
make a difference."
- Chris Luna,
promised that the department will
Last month, police officers pos-
continue to hound drug dealers.
ing as drug dealers arrested more
City Council member
"The good people are on notice:-
than 100 people at the apartment
There is hope,' he said. "The crimi-
building who were trying to buy
dealer was making more than
nais are on notice that we are going
crack cocaine.
$20,000 a day in the neighborhood.
to do everything we can to deal
Thursday, police made 35 under-
Officials seized nine of the dealer's
with you one way or another.
cover drug arrests.
properties and in April gained title
Jill Parr-Meyler. a Crime Watch
It has not been unusual to see
to them.
co-chairwoman in the neighbor-
long lines of cars in front of the
Three ramshackle houses were
hood. said she "couldn't be hap-
building with people waiting to buy
razed. In their place, officials will
pier" about the seizure.
drugs, said Marvin Collins. U.S. at.
build five houses for low-income
"But it's a drop in a very huge
torney for the Northern District of
families.
puddle, and the whole puddle needs
Texas.
Businesses that had been leasing
to be drained." she said.
Quoting a federal court decision.
space from the dealer have been
Mr. Collins said that "a building
given the chance to buy those prop-
AVE
used to sell crack cocaine in any
erties.
neighborhood is a nuisance for
HOSS
At about 10:45 a.m. Friday, more
which a landlord must be held re-
than 30 police officers raided the
sponsible."
Carron
Swiss Avenue building.
We don't have to make claims
U.S. Marshal Bruce Beaty was un-
Oak
participation of the owner in any
able to find the owner but posted a
Live
dealing, he said. "All we have to do
Filzhugh Ave
notice on a door saying that the
Swiss
is show that he knew about it and
property had been seized.
Several dogs barked behind
Gaston
Police. federal
ignored it."
agents saize
Authorities did not identify the
closed apartment doors. and cats
owner. who hasn't been charged in
scurried outside, apparently
Haskell Ave
apartment house
the matter.
alarmed by the commotion. Mosqui-
Only four of the building's 16
toes swarmed in the hallways.
30
units were occupied Friday, and
where leakage from exposed pipes
three Dallas social agencies were
stained the dingy white walls.
on hand to help tenants move to
Across the street, & group of
35E
75
635
new apartments.
neighbors cheered and clapped as
We're going to make sure that
114
officials hoisted a banner proclaim.
nobody is displaced inappropri-
ing that the U.S. Marshals Service
83
Follway
ately. Mr. Collins said.
30
and the Dallas Police Department
12
Friday marked the second time
had taken over the building.
DALLAS
this year that Dallas police have
Joe Herrera. 45. said he lived in
30
12
worked with federal agencies to
the building and managed it for the
175
35E
stop drug dealing by seizing real es-
owner. He said he works at night
tate.
and was unaware of drug sales
The first seizure occurred Jan. :
45
20
there.
87
in the 1900 block of Nomas Street =
20
Most of the tenants stay there
West Dallas. Police said a drug
only about a week before moving
The Dollas Marning News
P.11
SEP 24 '92 30AM USAO DTF DALLAS
PAGE
1
1992 The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, September 22, 1992
Schumer's bill. It might even help reduce the national epidemic of car
thefts. But it has nothing to do with Pamela Basu.
year- old Bernard Eric "T.J." Miller took off on foot.
Sometime later, the two apparently accosted Basu as she was driving her
2-year-old daughter to pre- school. They commandeered Basu's BMW, shoved
her out the door and, when her arm became entangled in the seatbelt, dragged her
for a mile and a half,
cars at gunpoint. Several drivers have been shot. More to the point, it
is the sort of crime in which prudence is of little help. Basu was assaulted
at 8:30 in the morning, near her suburban home. So what do we do? We try to
assert control - first by "understanding" what
two early 1980s assault convictions.
Aha! we say. If they had kept him in jail, or made him do serious time for
the assaults, Basu might have been alive. Of course. And if the judge had
known that Solomon would kill somebody a week after his release, he might have
bent the rules that
LEVEL 1 - 2 OF 8 STORIES
Copyright 1992 The Washington Post
The Washington Post
September 17, 1992, Thursday, Final Edition
SECTION: METRO; PAGE D3
LENGTH: 438 words
HEADLINE: Pam Basu's Husband: 'Our Life Was Complete';
He Describes Emptiness and Thanks Friends, Neighbors for 'Compassion and
Support'
SERIES: Occasional
BYLINE: Graciela Sevilla, Washington Post Staff Writer
It should have been a happy day.
Sarina Basu, 22 months, was going to her first day of preschool. Her
parents, after years of longing for a child, had adopted her as an infant in
India. "Our life was complete," recalled her father, Biswanath Basu.
LEXIS:NEXIS®
LEXIS-NEXIS®
LEXIS·NEXIS®
Services of Mead Data Central, Inc.
Recyclable
SEP 24 92 06:56PM USAO DTF DALLAS
P.1
2
United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas
1100 Commerce Street, Room 16G28
Daties, Texas 75242
DATE:
9/24
PLEASE NOTIFY THE PERSON NAMED BELOW OF THE RECEIPT OF THIS FAX:
Name:
Mic helle Nix
Office: white House speak writing
Phone:
FAX:
From:
Office of the United States Attorney
1100 Commerce, Room 16G28
Dallas, Texas 75242-1699
FTS: 729-0951
COMM: (214) 767-0951
FAX: FTS: 729-8764
FAX: COMM: (214) 767-8764
4
Total number of pages (includes cover sheet) :
COMMENTS:
SEP 24 '92 06:57PM USAO DTF DALLAS
P.2
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division
1100 Commerce Street, Room 16G28
214-767-0951
Dallas, Texas 75242-1699
Fax 214 767-8764
Sept 24, 1992
TO:
Michelle Nix
White House Speechwriting
and
Dallas Team
White House Advance
FROM:
2:45 troduce
Brad Cates
Assistant U.S. Attorney
RE:
Dallas "Swiss Ave" crime speech
1. The U.S. Marshal (who is appointed by the President and whose wife is a Republican elected county
clerk) is Bruce Beaty (w. 214-767-0855 h. 214-771-6474 He personally made this seizure for me ( the
U.S. Marshals Service is the Justice agency that seizes drug property for the U.S. Attorney). I spoke with
him, he is available to be on stage for the event, and I think you should Talked invite him and so make 2 reference
to the U.S. Marshals Service in your speech.
to Jackbhit
2. The U.S. Attorney has been appointed to head the Silverado investigation and as such it would not be
proper for him to attend.
3. I think it would be prudent if I read over the relevant part of the speech draft for you regarding weed and
seed and the Renaissance project. Please fax it to me in its rough form at 214-767-8764, and I'll promptly
turn it around.
4. If you need me at night or this weekend, call me at 214-401-2831 or MOBILE 214-908-7895.
5. Steve Clicque (KLIK) invitation to President is attached. It has some good speech items included.
cc:
U.S. Attorney Collins
U.S. Marshal Beaty
SEP 24 '92 06:57PM USAO DTF DALLAS
P.3
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing to invite you to view the effects of your
administration's "weed and seed" program and to visit with some of your
"points of light".
This past August my partners and I (without prior affiliation with the
Lower Swiss Avenue Homeowners Association) purchased @ building in this
historic area of east Dallas. Built in the 1920's, this sixteen unit
apartment complex was B notorious haven for drugs and prostitution until it
was seized under the "weed and seed" program. One of the first of its kind in
this srea, the seizure was a much needed and greatly appreciated (see
newspaper article enclosed) first step in reclaiming this deserving
neighborhood. At a time when our City's budget 18 strained to the limit,
Federal assistance of this kind 12 a mcst welcome addition to our efforts.
Little more than sixty days after Federal marshalls "arrested" the
building it was sold to my partners and I. As we understand it, this was the
quickest "turn" in U.S. Justice Department history. The building now serves
00 a home to ourselves and our accounting practice as we conduct an on-going
restoration of the property. And, with the help of our neighbors in the
Association we are actively seeking to carry-on the good work begun by the
"weed and seed" program.
East Dallas 1s in a critical stage of transition. Residents, both new
and old, together with all levels of our government are engaged in a daily
battle to reclaim this wonderful neighborhood from the long entrenched
elements of drugs, prostitution and related criminal activities. A task force
with which we work is currently being formed. The group's objective 18 to
implement "weed and seed" on an area-wide scale. And, while it 1s,
admittedly, of secondary importance to our desire to reclaim this
neighborhood, we are all kesnly sware the eyes of the world will be focused on
this area when World Cup '94 comes to Dallas a scant two years away. The
Cotton Bowl, which lies less than a mile away, will host several games and
serve 88 the media center for the entire series. We are most anxious to make
at good impression and to serve as hosts befitting this great country.
(214)-821-2234
4515 Swios Avenue, Dallas, TX 75204
FAX(214)-827-3150
MADDOXSEP 24 '92 06:57PM USAO DTF DALLAS 2702
Sep 22.92 11:58 F P.4
821-2234
FAX 214 - 827 3150
President George Bush
September 20, 1992
Page 2
The Association realizes the tremendous demands on your time the duties
of your office, coupled with & heated election campaign, must make. We are
honored simply for the opportunity to extend this invitation to you. We can
only hope your schedule will permit you to accept. If there is any action we
might take to accomodate your needs it would be our pleasure to oblige. In
event, we wish to thank you and the members of the Justice Department for
your any efforts on our behalf. We are certain that with the continued support of
caring individuals 85 yourself we will win this war.
Very truly yours,
Steven H. Clicque, Chairman
09/25/92 12:34
202 616 1159
001
FAX TRANSMISSION SHEET
OF ORO MENT DOMINA JUSTITA OF
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
Executive Office for Weed and Seed
#
12
Phone: (202) 616-1152
Fax: (202) 616-1159
Date:
To:
Michele Mr.
From:
Andrea Hilly
Number of Pages including transmission sheet:
Person to Contact upon receipt:
Telephone of person to contact:
Special Instructions:
09/25/92
12:34
202 616 1159
002
SENT BY:Xerox Telecopier 7020 ; 9-25-92 111:44AM ;
2024566218-
202 616 1159:# 2
September 25, 1992
19
"Weed and Seed is already up and running in Ft. Worth -- and
in 26 other cities across the country. / This year, I asked the
Congress for 500 million dollars to fund Weed and Seed programs
in M 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."
so or more
Crime Statistics:
9/25/92
SOURCE:
St. Louis Metropolitan Police Dept. figures violent
crime in Fox Park [mid 89-8/31/92]
FORCIBLE
AGGRIVATED
DATE
MURDER
RAPE
ROBBERY
ASSAULT
1992
1
5
19
67
1991
2
9
85
94
1990
1
2
46
72
1989
0
1
35
67
7-12
TOTALS
4
17
185
300
SOURCE:
David Nemecek, Dir. National Crime Info Center [324-
2606] referred me to Vicky Major [324-5015]
*1992 numbers from St. Louis Metropolitan Police
St. Louis / Violent Crimes [1989-91]:
FORCIBLE
AGGRIVATED
OFFICERS
DATE
MURDER
RAPE
ROBBERY
ASSAULT
ASSAULTED
1992*
111
252
3,189
5,264
:
1991
260
342
5,294
8,180
715
1990
177
331
4,708
8,466
778
1989
83
188
2,308
4,253
360
7-12
TOTALS
631
1,113
15,499
26,163
1,853
SOURCE:
FBI //Uniform Crime Report // Carlos Davis [estimates]
324-3827
Vicky Major [324-5015]
*Estimated Violent Crime Offenses in the UNITED STATES [89-91]:
FORCIBLE
AGGRIVATED
DATE
MURDER
RAPE
ROBBERY
ASSAULT
1991
24,700
106,590
687,730
1,092,740
1990
23,440
102,560
639,270
1,054,860
1989
11,395
49,896
307,093
495,841 [July-Dec]*
TOTALS
59,535
259,046
1,634,093
2,643,441
RETURN A RECORD CARD
91
TEXAS
DALLAS
197
TXDPD00
1
7
1,028,362
07/30/92
YEAR
STATE
AGENCY
SMSA
ORI
GR DIV
POPULATION
DATE
1
2
3
4A-D
#
457
6
7
8
EXPANDED
POLICE OFFICERS
MOTOR
TOTAL
INDEX
MONTH
MURDER
FORCIBLE
ROBBERY
AGGRAVATED
SIMPLE
BURGLARY
LARCENY-
VEHICLE
1-7
ARSON
TOTAL
KILLED
ASSAULTED
RAPE
ASSAULT
ASSAULT
THEFT
THEFT
FEL
NEG
JANUARY
35
88
1008
831
2035
2915
6189
2058
13124
102
13226
34
FEBRUARY
32
86
897
845
2145
2328
5412
1783
11383
108
11491
38
12739
30
MARCH
42
103
1011
1138
2869
2645
5526
2089
12554
185
SEP-24-1992 16:01 FROM FBI
3MO. TOT
109
277
2916
2814
6749
7888
17127
5930
37061
395
37456
102
APRIL
A
45
101
868
1134
2688
2466
5254
1857
11725
137
11862
35
A
43
A
MAY
A
47
107
926
1245
3084
2796
5773
2131
13025
137
13162
JUNE
A
44
114
923
1226
2993
2732
5984
2189
13212
144
13356
44
A
6MO. TOT
245
599
5633
6419
15514
15882
34138
12107
75023
813
75836
224
UCR
JULY
46
107
899
1295
2939
2862
6652
2255
14116
147
14263
29
AUGUST
49
115
1030
1430
2965
2867
6603
2291
14385
144
14529
36
SEPTEMBER
46
94
929
1282
2705
2734
6245
2109
13439
94
13533
33
322
9MO. TOT
386
915
8491
10426
24123
24345
53638
18762
116963
1198
118161
OCTOBER
A
31
118
881
1101
2454
2560
6430
2128
13249
111
13360
33
A
A
42
92
870
974
2237
2176
5833
2075
12062
116
12178
30
A
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
A
41
83
1012
948
2334
2432
6019
2120
12655
102
12757
1
45
A
12MO. TOT
500
1208
11254
13449
31148
31513
71920
25085
154929
1527
156456
1
430
TOT CLEARED
350
665
2869
7883
26686
5447
17490
2780
37484
432
37916
JUV CLEARED
66
76
498
900
2276
544
3048
909
6042
291
6333
TO
RAPE
ROBBERY
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
BURGLARY
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
MONTH
OTHER
STRONG-
OTHER
PERSONAL
FORCIBLE
UNLAWFUL
ATTEMPTED
TRUCKS
FORCIBLE
ATTEMPT
GUN
KNIFE
GUN
KNIFE
AUTOS
OTHER
WEAPON
ARM
WEAPON
WEAPON
ENTRY
ENTRY
ENTRY
BUSES
JANUARY
72
16
528
85
91
304
417
197
167
50
2588
287
40
1285
382
391
FEBRUARY
70
16
469
79
89
260
414
198
172
61
2028
281
19
1155
333
295
1365
408
316
MARCH
85
18
479
103
110
319
567
284
197
90
2219
398
28
3MO. TOT
227
50
1476
267
290
883
1398
679
536
201
6835
966
87
3805
1123
1002
575
284
197
78
2075
363
28
1218
332
307
APRIL
A
79
22
394
95
95
284
MAY
A
93
14
392
118
120
296
577
327
242
99
2316
457
23
1287
482
362
JUNE
A
111
3
413
108
100
302
604
282
256
84
2202
503
27
1353
479
357
6MO. TOT
510
89
2675
588
605
1765
3154
1572
1231
462
13428
2289
165
7663
2416
2028
JULY
90
17
388
98
107
306
671
298
224
102
2341
494
27
1338
574
343
94566218
1409
512
370
AUGUST
98
17
480
106
116
328
744
345
240
101
2353
493
21
SEPTEMBER
83
11
449
96
97
287
674
274
228
106
2259
448
27
1364
409
336
5243
2489
1923
771
20381
3724
240
11774
3911
3077
9MO. TOT
781
134
3992
888
925
2686
OCTOBER A
110
8
400
87
90
304
546
256
206
93
2113
431
16
1335
415
378
NOVEMBER A
85
7
459
76
93
242
510
213
184
67
1874
276
26
1308
426
341
P.03/11
DECEMBER A
66
17
556
102
90
264
484
211
165
88
2082
324
26
1371
406
343
12MO. TOT
1042
166
5407
1153
1198
3496
6783
3169
2478
1019
26450
4755
308
15788
5158
4139
T CLEARED
591
74
1168
304
305
1092
3109
2370
1634
770
4306
1067
74
2021
510
249
J CLEARED
67
9
260
17
46
176
473
175
178
74
401
128
15
701
110
98
RETURN A RECORD CARD
SEP-24-1992
90
TEXAS
DALLAS
197
TXOPDOO 1
7
1,006,877
02/21/92
YEAR
STATE
AGENCY
SMSA
ORI
GR DIV
POPULATION
DATE
1
2
3
4A-0
4E
5
6
7
8
MOTOR
EXPANDED
POLICE OFFICERS
MONTH
TOTAL
MURDER
FORCIBLE
ROBBERY
AGGRAVATED
SHIPLE
BURGLARY
LARCENY-
VEHICLE
1.7
INDEX
ARSON
16:05
ASSAULT
ASSAULE
THEFT
TOTAL
KILLED
RAPE
THEFT
ASSAULTED
FEL
NEG
JANUARY
35
94
858
882
2079
2970
6179
2035
13053
131
13184
38
FEBRUARY
27
89
662
787
1959
2591
5770
1829
11755
98
11853
33
MARCH
26
FROM
116
761
906
232G
2862
6289
2062
13022
134
13156
32
3MG. TOT
88
299
2281
2575
6264
8423
18238
5926
37830
363
38193
103
APRIL
25
105
728
1023
252
2782
6071
1736
12470
118
12588
39
FBI
MAY
33
132
834
1123
2715
2618
6182
1832
12754
122
12876
2
40
JUNE
A
43
117
860
1125
2731
2534
6038
2009
12726
129
12855
35
A
GMO. TOT
189
653
4703
5846
14238
16357
36529
11503
75780
732
76512
2
217
UCR
JULY
A
44
148
975
1307
2858
2927
6346
2331
14078
154
14232
36
A
AUGUST
A
48
140
1024
1122
263
2694
6657
2312
13997
164
14161
25
A
SEPTEMBER
A
43
138
930
1099
2688
2574
6072
2124
12980
124
13104
24
A
9MO. TOT
324
1079
7632
9374
22415
24552
55604
18270
116835
1174
118009
2
302
OCTOBER
A
44
105
978
997
2448
2702
6522
2221
13569
133
13702
29
A
NOVEMBER
A
44
90
964
922
2224
2741
6039
2107
12907
136
13043
1
40
A
DECEMBER
A
35
70
991
901
2177
2980
6064
1915
12956
112
13068
34
A
12MG. TOT
447
1344
10565
12194
23264
32975
74229
24513
156267
1555
157822
1
2
405
TOT CLEARED
313
743
2722
7433
2594
6809
16735
3074
37829
432
38261
JUV CLEARED
54
81
367
839
1976
687
2714
846
5588
195
5783
TO
RAPE
ROBBERY
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
BURGLARY
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
MONTH
FORCIBLE
ATTEMPT
OTHER
GUN
KNIFE
STRONG-
OTHER
GUN
WEAPON
KNIFE
PERSONAL
FORCIBLE
UNLAWFUL
ATTEMPTED
TRUCKS
ARM
WEAPON
WEAPON
ENTRY
ENTRY
AUTOS
ENTRY
OTHER
BUSES
JANUARY
85
9
400
79
91
288
441
236
142
63
2591
331
48
1286
449
300
FEBRUARY
71
18
271
86
68
237
357
220
151
59
2248
288
55
1157
377
295
MARCH
95
21
303
96
81
281
394
240
199
73
2489
341
32
1324
411
327
3MO. ToT
251
48
974
261
240
806
1192
696
492
195
7328
960
135
3767
1237
922
APRIL
90
15
278
95
81
274
458
277
213
75
2412
336
34
1117
340
279
MAY
114
18
359
106
95
274
523
315
206
79
2213
368
37
1195
329
308
JUNE
A
104
13
376
98
108
278
562
279
193
91
2070
425
39
1278
402
329
6MO. TOT
559
94
1987
560
524
1632
2735
1567
1104
440
14023
2089
245
7357
2308
1838
94566218
JULY
A
125
23
424
131
122
298
605
318
269
115
2371
506
50
1449
497
385
AUGUST
A
120
20
476
93
119
336
529
299
199
95
2250
422
22
1410
503
399
SEPTEMBERA
110
28
451
97
105
277
527
284
212
76
2177
367
30
1288
467
369
9MO. TOT
914
165
3338
881
870
2543
4396
2468
1784
726
20821
3384
347
11504
3775
2991
OCTOBER A
95
10
473
91
113
301
503
261
164
69
2272
386
44
1391,
460
370
NOVEMBER A
80
10
529
88
83
264
440
243
175
64
2372
342
27
1248
511
350
P.07/11
DECEMBER A
61
9
514
94
91
292
444
234
162
61
2669
286
25
1201
424
290
12MO. TOT
$150
194
4854
1154
1157
3400
5783
3206
2285
920
28134
4398
443
15342
5170
4001
T CLEARED
649
94
1053
300
307
1062
2844
2418
1476
695
5501
1174
134
2249
618
207
J CLEARED
68
13
155
15
35
162
434
203
136
66
530
139
18
638
120
88
RETURN A RECORD CARD
89
TEXAS
DALLAS
197
SEP-24-1992
TXDPDOO 1
7
996,320
08/04/90
YEAR
STATE
AGENCY
SMSA
ORI
GR DIV
POPULATION
DATE
1
2
3
4A-D
4E
5
6
7
8
EXPANDED
POLICE OFFICERS
MONTH
MOTOR
TOTAL
MURDER
FORCIBLE
ROBBERY
AGGRAVATED
SIMPLE
BURGLARY
LARCENY-
INDEX
VEHICLE
1-7
ARSON
RAPE
ISSAULT
THEFT
TOTAL
KILLED
ASSAULT
THEFT
ASSAULTED
16:06
FEL
NEG
JANUARY
A
28
102
803
804
1986
3559
7276
2535
15107
97
15204
2
33
A
FEBRUARY
A
26
69
641
635
174
3016
6107
2126
12620
76
12696
27
A
MARCH
29
104
736
830
214.
3080
6918
2111
13808
114
13922
32
FROM
3MO. TOT
83
275
218C
2269
5820
9655
20301
6772
41535
287
41822
2
92
APRIL
33
95
651
877
2397
3162
6362
1887
13067
92
13159
36
MAY
A
29
127
728
843
2015
3402
6578
2170
13877
95
13972
FBI
26
A
JUNE
A
11
104
822
934
2344
3321
6707
2387
14286
94
14380
30
A
6MO. TOT
156
601
4381
4923
13:70
19540
39948
13216
82765
568
83333
2
184
UCR
JULY
27
110
930
895
2335
3413
6826
2398
14599
111
14710
22
AUGUST
31
116
776
949
2223
3395
6815
2503
14585
128
14713
37
SEPTEMBER
29
93
851
871
2116
3146
6489
2178
13657
130
13787
29
9M0. TOT
243
920
6938
7638
18851
29494
60078
20295
125606
937
126543
2
272
OCTOBER
43
111
883
965
2298
3292
7105
2506
14905
150
15055
27
NOVEMBER
A
34
88
826
866
2003
3129
6181
2503
13627
109
13736
26
A
DECEMBER
A
31
66
795
781
1898
2737
5908
1995
12313
202
12515
23
A
12MO. TOT
351
1185
9442
10250
26010
38652
79272
27299
166451
1398
167849
2
348
TOT CLEARED
266
693
2790
6892
20813
7840
19911
3666
42058
444
42502
JUV CLEARED
44
58
307
665
1275
847
2888
788
5597
173
5770
TO
RAPE
ROBBERY
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
BURGLARY
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
MONTH
FORCIBLE
ATTEMPT
GUN
OTHER
KNIFE
STRONG-
OTHER
GUN
KNIFE
PERSONAL
FORCIBLE
UNLAWFUL
ATTEMPTED
TRUCKS
WEAPON
ARM
WEAPON
WEAPON
ENTRY
AUTOS
ENTRY
ENTRY
OTHER
BUSES
JANUARY A
85
17
333
101
103
266
374
241
124
65
3103
394
62
1636
479
420
FEBRUARY A
63
to
289
79
71
202
261
195
121
58
2636
320
60
1373
412
341
MARCH
79
25
317
93
81
245
308
278
177
67
2647
386
47
1309
447
355
3MO. TOT
227
48
939
273
255
713
943
714
422
190
8386
1100
169
4318
1338
1116
APRIL
77
18
242
83
94
232
365
266
163
83
2620
480
62
1137
442
308
MAY
A
104
23
265
97
89
277
377
258
149
59
2806
543
53
1336
461
373
JUNE
A
88
16
304
122
119
277
377
278
210
69
2735
522
64
1506
515
366
6MO. TOT
496
105
1750
575
557
1499
2062
1516
944
401
16547
2645
348
8297
2756
2163
94566218
JULY
89
21
355
136
106
333
356
263
195
81
2772
593
48
1448
617
333
AUGUST
89
27
271
103
102
300
440
245
187
77
2787
554
54
1541
622
340
SEPTEMBER
75
18
343
99
104
305
368
249
185
69
2588
499
59
1321
515
342
9MO, TOT
749
171
2719
913
869
2437
3226
2273
1511
628
24694
4291
509
12607
4510
3178
OCTOBER
95
16
325
108
127
323
441
255
195
74
2723
507
62
1483
659
364
NOVEMBER A
75
13
313
121
106
286
391
223
187
65
2666
412
51
1538
546
419
P.09/11
DECEMBER A
60
6
355
120
83
237
398
205
121
57
2413
279
45
1333
382
280
12MO. TOT
979
206
3712
1262
1185
3283
4456
2956
2014
824
32496
5489
667
16961
6097
4241
T CLEARED
585
108
981
374
348
1087
2543
2317
1371
661
6461
1211
168
2574
859
233
J CLEARED
55
w
127
20
34
126
302
163
135
65
670
144
33
611
98
79
FORM X320 (11/80)
September 24, 1992
Comprehensive Violent Crime Control Act introduced on June
15, 1989. (1200 days ago)
Sent another crime package up on March 11, 1991. (566 days
ago)
Crime down in Dallas from last year:
Overall crime down 13.7%
Violent crime down 14.1%
This includes murder, rape, robbery, assault.
Violent crime down 41% in Central Business District.
Homicides last August were 341 for Aug 1991; this Aug:
264.
All violent crime down in the last 7 consecutive
months.
Thanks
michale
OFFICE OF PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHWRITING
FACSIMILE TRANSMITTAL SHEET
Number of Pages (Including Cover) 2
To
Andrea Hilliard
Fax Number
616-1159
Date
Dept 25
From
Michele Nix
office Number
X 7750
******
COMMENTS
******
Language Re Weed of Seed
September 25, 1992
"Weed and Seed is already up and running in Ft. Worth -- and
in 20 other cities across the country. / This year, I asked the
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. 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."
36 A
She Balins Morning News
Friday, June 19, 1992
Drug-free
park sign
unveiled
By Al Brumley
DRUG FREE
Staff Writer of The Dellas Morning News
AYGROUND
ZONE
It's a small sign in a small park.
but Dallas police and federal offi-
cials hope it will have a big impact.
The sign. unveiled Thursday
morning in East Dallas' Munger
Park, shows & syringe with a slash
through it. Below are the words
"Drug Free Playground Zone."
With the placard came a promise:
Anyone caught selling drugs near
the park. at Junius and Dumas
streets, could face twice the maxi-
mum prison sentence ordinarily al-
lowed by federal law.
Thursday's ceremony was part of
a continuing effort to make all Dal-
las' schools and parks drug-free. said
Marvin Collins, U.S. attorney for the
Northern District of Texas. All parks
and schools are included in the ef.
The Dallas Morning News Milton Hinnent
fort, he said. whether or not they
have the special sign.
Parks board member Lois Finkelman
City Council member Chris Luna unveil a
Under a federal statute. anyone
watches as Keith Jackson (left), president of
sign Thursday designating Munger Park as a
convicted of selling drugs within
the Munger Park Historical Association, and
drug-free playground.
1,000 feet of a school or park faces
twice the standard prison time and
the unvelling of the sign at Munger
he said. "I'd be lying if I said that put-
At an apartment complex a block
must serve at least one year in
Park "overly symbolic."
ting up this sign in this park was by
away, however, residents were skep-
prison without parole.
"Early on in the anti-drug effort,
itself going to make a difference. But
tical.
"It's really a law with some teeth,"
those things were good," Mr. Minkah
this is a long-term effort."
"I'd like to see something done,"
Mr. Collins said.
said. "But this is now repeating itself
Munger Park is about 100 yards
said a woman who asked not to be
But Fahim Minkah, the founder
over and over again. We don't see
long and 30 yards wide. It contains
identified. "I'd like to see anything
of AMAN Drug Fighters, accused fed-
them out on the streets doing any-
three pieces of playground equip-
done."
eral officials of being more con-
thing."
ment - the minimum federal re.
She wasn't buying the idea that
cerned with talking about the law
City Council member Chris Luna,
quirement for designation as a park.
tougher prison terms will scare off
than arresting drug dealers.
who attended a news conference at
Dallas police will use their ner.
the dealers.
"On the community level, we've
the park, was more optimistic.
cotice street squads to increase drug
"I don't think that's going to hap-
actually seen absolutely nothing."
"What you're talking about is put-
arrests in the area, said Sgt. Tom
pen." she said, shaking her head.
Mr. Minkah said Thursday. He called
ting criminals away for a long time,"
Sherman of the narcotics bureau.
"That'll be a miracle."
Drug buyers arrested, cars seized in East, South Dallas
none of the people arrested Thurs-
& late-model Ford Probe.
By Todd Copilevitz
charged buyers with conspiracy to
Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
buy drugs, a misdemeanor. But
day came from the neighborhoods
If a federal judge approves the
where the dealers were working.
seizures. the care will be used by un-
Drug buyers in East and South
Thursday. police let real dealers
carry out their usual sales.
The buyers came from as far away as
dercover officers or sold to raise
Dallas got a double dose of reality
Narcotics officers bought drugs
Far North Dallas and Pleasant Grove.
money for fighting drugs, Chief
Thursday when police not only ar-
The chief had his briefing in an
Rathburn said.
rested them but also seized their
from the dealers 80 they could be ar-
East Dallas parking lot where the
"We're doing everything we can
rested later on felony charges, he
care.
On the first day of CURB - Crack-
said.
four seized cars were parked. They
to send the messaga that you don't
Because the motorists were buy.
included a battered pickup truck and
buy drugs in Dallas," he said.
down on Users and Retail Buyers -
officers confiscated four cars and ar-
Ing real crack, they were charged
rested a half-dozen people, Police
with felony posession of cocaine, L.
Chief Bill Rathburn said.
Goelden said,
But it took at least 25 officers all
Undercover detectives watched
day to do it.
motorists buy drugs and followed
"It's 8 lot of work, no question
them as they drove off, he said. Sev.
about it," said narcotics division Lt.
eral blocks away. patrol officers
David Goelden. "But it should have a
stopped the suspects, arrested them
lot more impact" than previous drug
and seized their cars If police found
stings.
the crack.
The undercover operations were
At least two suspects swallowed
run in two neighborhoods, one near
the cocaine before officers could ar-
Interstate 30 and Winslow Avenue,
rest them, he said.
the other near East Side and Carroll
"All we could do was thank them
avenues.
for their time and let them go," Lt.
They mark the first time a local
Goelden said. Several other buyers
police department has used federal
escaped in heavy traffic, he said.
laws to seize drug buyers' cars, the
Since coming to Dallas in March
chief said in a news conference with
1991. Chief Rathburn has vowed to
Mayor Steve Bartlett.
go after drug users. He has said they
Thursday's operation was differ-
often victimize poor neighborhoods
ent in other ways, too.
by bringing crime and perpetuating
Before. undercover officers of-
the dealing.
fered fake crack Prine and
Undercover officers noted that
SEP 24 '92 10:33AM USAO DTF DALLAS
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division
1100 Commerce Street, Room 16G28
214-767-0951
Dallas, Texas 75242-1699
FTS 767-0951
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DALLAS, TEXAS
CONTACT: 214/767-0951
JUNE 18, 1992
Today, June 18, 1992, Marvin Collins, United States Attorney for the Northern District
of Texas designated Munger Park and Buckner Park as "Drug Free Playground Zones." Munger
Park and Buckner Park are both located in East Dallas. Munger is at the corner of Junius and
Dumas Streets and Buckner Park is located at the corner of Carroll and Worth Streets.
Title 21, United States Code, Section 860, substantially increases penalties imposed for
any drug felonies committed within 1,000 feet of a playground. This statute requires that any
person convicted of this offense shall receive a mandatory minimum one year term of
imprisonment without probation or parole, and doubles the maximum possible punishment.
Today's postings are part of a neighborhood revitalization project designed to "weed" out
the criminal element and help "seed" the neighborhood with new social back up services. The
MORE.
91.16
SEP 24 '92 10:34AM USAO DTF DALLAS
parks involved in today's postings are in the same neighborhood as the site of last week's seizure
of a 16 unit apartment complex at 4515 Swiss Avenue.
That seizure followed an undercover operation by the Dallas Police Department which
resulted in the arrest of 35 persons on narcotics charges. Earlier this year, undercover narcotics
officers arrested over 100 individuals for narcotics offenses at the Swiss Avenue location.
The posting of signs at these two parks today serves notice to all that narcotics trafficking
in or near playgrounds will not be tolerated and that law enforcement has renewed a commitment
to work with the residents of an approximate 3/4 mile area of Gaston Avenue as well as the
surrounding neighborhoods to help insure a safe environment for children.
Marvin Collins, United States Attorney, said, "With summer coming on, we want to take
extra steps to insure the safety of our children, particularly around playgrounds. These tough
federal laws are one way to help insure our children are safe from drugs."
Joining United States Attorney Collins in today's event were Phil Jordan, Special Agent
in Charge of the Dallas Drug Enforcement Administration; Councilman Chris Luna; Lois
Finkelman, President of the Dallas Parks Board; Paul Dyer, Director of the Dallas Parks
Department; and members of the Mill Creek Homeowners Association; the Munger District Home
Owners Association; the Munger District Crimestoppers: the Mill Creek Area Crimewatch and
other neighborhood organizations.
- MORE.
2117
SEP 24 '92 10: 34AM USAO DTF DALLAS
"As we continue to educate our children about the dangers of drug use, we must also send
a strong message that drug dealing in or near our schools and playgrounds will not be tolerated."
added Phil Jordan.
The Dallas Park and Recreation Department commends the United States Attorney's
Office for its effort to enforce this much needed provision," said Park Board President Lois
Finkelman. "We share the commitment to increase the quality of life for children, our most
important resource."
"We are pleased to take part in today's program," said Paul Dyer, director of the Dallas
Park and Recreation Department. "The overall safety and enjoyment of the public, especially our
children, are first and foremost in how we manage our parks and playgrounds. Therefore it's only
appropriate that we give our complete support in the provision of a 'drug-free' recreational
environment for the children."
#
#
#
P.18
SEP 24 '92 10:34AM USAO DTF DALLAS
SEP-21-1992 10:11 FROM DOJ-DAG
TO
61159
P.02
U.S. Department of Justice
9
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
Associate Deputy Attorney General
Washington, D.C. 20530
September 18, 1992
MEMORANDUM
TO:
William P. Barr
Attorney General
George J. Terwilliger, III
Deputy Attorney General
FROM:
Timothy J. Shea
Associate Deputy General
7 the
SUBJECT:
Weed and Seed Legislative Update
RECAP
1.
The Administration proposed Weed and Seed funding through
the regular annual appropriations process, in five separate
Appropriations Bills and through a separate authorization
bill sent to the Hill in March. The Congress has not
responded to these requests, instead pointing to the so-
called Urban Aid Bill as the funding vehicle.
2.
The House passed H.R. 11, the tax enterprise zone
legislation which authorized and appropriated funds for a
hybrid weed and seed program. The funds were exclusively
earmarked for tax enterprise zones.
3.
The Senate passed H.R. 5620, an unrelated supplemental
appropriations bill for a variety of programs including
disaster assistance for the hurricanes. The Senate was
opposed to appropriating funds in a tax bill. The Senate
supplemental appropriations bill included $300 million for a
block gant for tax enterprise zones and $200 million for a
variety of new and existing federal programs. The $200
million was not tied to any comprehensive program and it was
not mandated for enterprise zones.
110/800
11:40
76/17/60
SEP-21-1992 10:12 FROM DOJ-DAG
TO
61159
P.03
- 2 -
CURRENT STATUS OF CONGRESSIONAL ACTION
The Senate version of H.R. 5620 contained the $500 million
appropriation for aid to distressed communities as described
above. The House version of H.R. 5620 had no similar provision.
On September 19, 1992, the House passed a revised version of H.R.
5620 which included the following provisions:
1. Appropriated $500 million for "additional assistance to
distressed communities", under a so-called "Community
Investment Program". The funds were NOT appropriated
exclusively for tax enterprise zones.
2. The funds were appropriated "subject to enactment of
subsequent authorizing legislation."
3. The funds are available through FY 1994.
4.
Allows not more than $400 million of the $500 million
appropriated to be used for "Enterprise Community Block
Grant Demonstration Program".
5.
Allows not more than $200 million of the $500 million
appropriated to be used for the "National
Public/Private Partnership Program", only to be used
for these purposes:
- Job Corps Program (Labor)
- Community Health Centers (HHS)
- Headstart Program (Education)
- ADAMHA for high risk youth (HHS)
- Youthbuild Program (HUD)
- Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
- U.S. Attorneys Account (for state and local aid)
- Enterprise Capital Access Fund Demonstration
- National Community Economic Partnership Program
6.
There is no reference to weed and seed nor are there
any restrictions on using the funds for weed and seed
location IF THE AUTHORIZING LEGISLATION ALLOWS SUCH A
USE.
The bill will be sent to the Senate for consideration where
no amendments are expected, and consequently, the bill will be
sent directly to the President for his signature. of course, no
funds are available until enactment of authorizing legislation.
OF:10
76/17/80
`SEP-21-1992 10:12 FROM DOJ-DAG
TO
61159
P.04
- 3 -
COMMENTS
1.
H.R. 5620 is acceptable in a sense that weed and seed
funding for non-enterprise zones IS NOT PRECLUDED, as it was
partly in the Senate passed bill and totally in the House
version. It gives us a chance to fashion the authorization
legislation in a way that would direct funds to our current
weed and seed sites.
2. The block grant structure could be a problem if the
authorization legislation distributes the funds on a formula
basis and excludes weed and seed communities.
3.
The non-block grant funds are acceptable if they can be used
for non-enterprise zones and if the funds are tied to the
weed and seed strategy by the authorization bill.
4.
Since the bill is neutral with respect to the use of the
funds for non-enterprise zones, the opportunity exists to
provide resources for weed and seed communities through this
vehicle. The authorization process is key, and we should be
guided by three general principles. First, the
authorization should allow funds to be spent in non-
enterprise zones. Second, the authorization must be
flexible to respond to local needs and not tied to a
Washington-mandated formula for the distribution of funds.
Third, funds should be tied to the implementation of the
weed and seed strategy where law enforcement is coordinated
with the delivery of social services.
CC: W. Lee Rawls
Dan Levin
Paul McNulty
Deborah Daniels
ITO/COO
Presidents 1993 Budget Request
WEED AND SEED FUNDING
From
From
Earmarked
New
Total
Base
1993
W&S
Funds
Funds
Department of Justice
20
9 5.
11
142
US Attorneys
10
10
0
OJP Demonstrations
Subtotal, Justice
30
19
11
Department of Labor
Job Training Partnership Act
28
28
0
5
0
5
Youth Opportunities Unlimited
Senior Community Service Employment
9
9
0
50
50
0
Job Corps
Subtotal, Labor
92
87
5
Dept. of Health & Human Services
36
0
36
Treatment Improvement Grants
47
0
47
Capacity Expansion Grants
High Risk Youth/Pregnant Women Prev.
7
0
7
Community Partnership Grants
4
0
4
43
43
0
AFDC JOBS (obligations)
Head Start
54
0
54
35
0
35
Community Health Centers
Subtotal, HHS
226
43
183
Housing and Urban Development
Public Housing Modernization
20
20
0
20
0
20
Housing Vouchers
Community Development Block Grant
44
44
0
Public Housing Drug Elimination Grants
6
6
0
Subtotal, HUD
90
70
20
Department of Education
Compensatory Education
16
0
16
School Improvement/Pre-College Outreach
30
0
30
Family Literacy and Adult Education
10
0
10
Subtotal, Education
56
0
56
Department of Transportation
Reverse Commute Demonstration Grants
1
1
0
Department of Agriculture
Women, Infants, Children (WIC) Nutrition
5
0
5
TOTALS
$500
$220
$280
PERCENT OF TOTAL
44%
56%
76/57/80
SEP-21-1992 10:13 FROM DOJ-DAG
TO
61159
P.05
09-18-92 01:45PM
TO 95149368
PUUZ
TITLE XII -- ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE TO DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES
The following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to provide appropriations for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993, to implement
initiatives to improve the quality of life and expand economic
opportunity, namely:
Community Investment Program
For grants to States, units of general local government and
other entities as authorized by law for implementing activities to
rejuvenate neighborhoods and promote economic opportunity,
$500,000,000, subject to enactment of subsequent authorizing
legislation, to remain available until September 30, 1994:
Provided, That, of the funds made available under this head, not
more than $400,000,000 may be made available for an "Enterprise
Community Block Grant Demonstration Program", subject to enactment
of subsequent authorizing legislation: Provided further, That, of
the funds made available under this head, not more than
$200,000,000 may be made available for a "National Public/Private
Partnership Program" which shall consist only of eligible
programs, projects and activities under the following programs:
-- Job Corps Program under part B of title IV of the Job
Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1692 et. seq.);
-- Community health centers under section 329 and section
330 of the Public Health Services Act (42 U.S.C. 254c) ;
-- Head Start Program under the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C.
9831 et. seq.);
--
Projects with respect to high risk youth under section
517 of the Public Health Service Act (as amended by the
SEP-21-1992 10:13 FROM DOJ-DAG
TO
61159
P.06
YouthBuild Program under subtitle D of title IV of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act:
--
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for use in
neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by
the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C.
8101-8107) :
--
Salaries and Expenses, United States Attorneys, only to
assist local law enforcement agencies for additional
coordination of Federal law enforcement and prosecutorial
activities;
--
Assistance to companies operating under authority of
section 302(d) of the Small Business Investment Act of
1958;
Enterprise Capital Access Fund Demonstration Program,
subject to the enactment of authorizing legislation;
National Community Economic Partnership Program, subject
to the enactment of authorizing legislation;
--
Capacity Expansion Program under section 509F of the
Public Health Service Act, as amended by P.L. 102-321;
--
Treatment Improvement Program under sections 301 and 509G
of the Public Health Service Act, as amended by P.L.
102-321; and
--
Literacy activities authorized under the National
Literacy Act of 1991:
Provided further, That none. of the funds under this head shall be
made available until authority is provided in subsequent
authorizing legislation.
99
TTO/1000
26/17/20
OF
FAX TRANSMISSION SHEET
DOMINA and USOP
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
#
17
N
Executive Office for Weed and Seed
Phone: (202) 616-1152
Fax: (202) 616-1159
9/23
Date:
To: alienelle Nik
WHITE HOUSE communications
SENSITIVE
SHAWN NOVILLE
From:
Number of Pages including transmission sheet: 10
Person to Contact upon receipt:
Telephone of person to contact:
Special Instructions:
Further information to sent.
Shown
TEL :1-512-472-3848
Sep 24'92
9:13 No. 004 P.01
TEXAS BUSH/QUAYLE '92
HEADQUARTERS
CAMPAIGN TELE-FAX
BUSH
QUAYLE
92
DATE:
9-14-9L
TO:
We willer Wh. to
FAX #
FROM:
Brice B.
PAGES W/COVER: 10
COMMENTS: FYF
Confidentiality Notice:
The document accompanying this telecopy transmission contains information belonging to the sender which is
confidential and may be legally privileged. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named
above. If you are not the intended recipient. you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the
taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this telecopied information is strictly prohibited. If you have received
this telecopy in error, please notify us by telephone to arrange for the return of the original document to us.
106 EAST 6TH STREET, SUITE 320,
AUSTIN, TEXAS 78701
PHONE: (512) 472-1992 FAX: (512) 472-3848
Paid for by Bush-Quayle '92 General Committee, Inc.
Printed on Recycled Papor
Thursday, September 24, 1992 A
The Dallas Morning Natus
Salinas warns against altering trade pact
By Nicole Foy
"This is a very good agreement
ico," Mr. Salinas said.
opportunities of global propor-
Washington Buresu of The Dellas Morning Nem
- serious and good for the three
In the House, Majority Leader
tions. revolutionizing our Indus-
WASHINGTON - Mexican
countries," Mr. Salinas added,
Dick Gephardt of Missouri, who Is
try like no other single effort
urging approval of the trade pact
opposing the pact, urged Mr. Sali-
since mechanization," be told the
President Carlos Satinas de Gor-
with the United States, Mexico
nas in a statement that "he needs
House Agriculture Committee.
tari has cautioned against any re-
negotiation of the North Ameri-
and Canada
to understand that without rene-
Last year, Mr. Perry appointed
TEL:1-512-472-3848
can Free Trade Agreement, say-
The interview with Mr. Salinas
gotiation, the agreement may be
a panel of Texas agricultural lead-
ing the next president of the
was taped in Mexico City on Mon-
doomed to failure."
ers to consult trade negotiators
United States should continue to
day and will air in Dallas Sunday
Mr. Gephardt believes the
on such issues as tariffs, sanitary
foster "better relations with its
on KERA-TV (Channel 13).
agreement would increase the
and infrastructure needs.
President Bush is pushing for
number of U.S. jobs moving to
neighbor to the south."
U.S. agricultural exports to
congressional approval of the
Mexico, leave Mexican workers
Mexico have more than doubled
"Having a neighbor with BS
free-trade agreement. But his
unprotected and harm the envi-
in the past six years, and Mexico
million people desperate to have
Democratic challenger, Arkansas
ronment.
is Texas' largest market for goods
jobs and the opportunity to im-
Gov. Bill Clinton, has questioned
Meanwhile, Texas Agriculture
and products, Mr. Perry said.
some aspects of the agreement, at
Commissioner Rick Perry told a
prove should be something to
though generally supporting free
House panel Wednesday that free
"If you think of markets cre-
keep in mind when you are run-
trade with Mexico.
trade would expand U.S. agricul-
ated by this accord as a dart
ning the responsibility of your
country," Mr. Salinas said in an
"Whoever Is selected president
tural markets by boosting exports
board, Texas is smack dab in the
Sep 24'92
interview with John McLaughlln
by the American voters will find
to Mexico by almost $2 billion a
middle," he said. "And we expect
for the television program One on
that it is good for the U.S. to have
year.
to bit the bull'seye with this
a free-trade agreement with Mex-
"I believe NAFTA will create
one."
One
9:16 No.004 P.07
TEL:1-512-472-3848
Sep 24'92
9:17 No. 004 P.08
Bush, Quayle waltz
Quayle took more opportuni-
ties to criticize Clinton during an
through Texas
afternoon rally at Texas A&M
University in College Station.
"Bill Clinton already promised
the American people that the
first thing he's going to do as
Vice president pitches health care plan
president is raise your taxes,"
Quayle said to & chorus of hisses
from the crowd of about 7,500.
HOUSTON POST SEP 2 3 1992
Although the mood inside the
tients.
By MARK HORVIT
Later, at a meeting with doc-
coliseum was staunchly pro-
OF THE HOUSTON POST STAFF
tors and employees of the medi-
Quayle - a single protest sign
cal center, Quayle outlined the
was torn down by students mid-
Vice President Dan Quayle came to
Republicans' health care reform
way through the rally - a few
Texas Tuesday to talk health care and to
plan, which would provide vouch-
dissenters gathered outside.
renew attacks on two of his favorite top-
A small crowd of protesters
ics the entertainment industry and the
ers to help the unemployed re-
ceive care and would give tax
lined up opposite a small group
Democratic Party.
of Bush-Quayle fans and shouted
credits to workers.
During a hectic few hours in Houston
at each other for a few minutes,
and College Station, the vice president:
Quayle blasted Clinton's plan
for universal health care in
but the two sides dispersed with-
Singled out another rap record that
out incident.
which employers either would
be said promotes violence.
have to provide health insurance
Doug Harpole, 31, stood to the
Conducted a whirlwind tour of Tex-
as Children's Hospital and promoted the
or pay the government to do so.
side skeptically watching the stu-
That system would mirror
dents clash, and asked the one
Republican health care plan to an audi-
Canada's, Quayle said. The pre-
question that may matter most
ence of medical center employees.
ventive and primary care offered
to both Republicans and Demo-
Wound up his Texas trip with a par-
crats this fall:
tisan pep rally at Texas A&M University.
by that system is adequate, he
The crowd whooped and cheered his ev-
said, noting, "They do a reason-
"How many of them do you
ably good job, for Canadians."
think will actually vote?
ery libe against Democratic presidential
candidate Bill Clinton. which was to be
But he said many Canadians
The Associated Press contrib-
come to the United States for
expected at a campus with a thorough-
treatment of serious diseases be-
uted to this report
fare named George Bush Drive.
cause superior medical care is
Quayle may have taken his lumps dur-
available here.
ing a prime-time broadcast of the sitcom
Murphy Brown Monday night, but he
came out swinging at the entertainment
industry Tuesday morning in Houston.
He took aim at a rapper named Tupac
President drops in
and dishes it out
Amaru Shakur.
The vice president accused Time
"Kinda out of the way.
HOUSTON POST SEP
Warner Inc. and a subsidiary headed by
George," read a sign carried by
BY KEN HERMAN
Frederick W. Field, a prominent Hill
Democrat Kathleen Combs. who
POST AUSTIN BUREAU
Clinton backer, of publishing music that
used her placard to note that it is
"has no place in our society."
LONGVIEW President Bush, who
780 miles from Longview to East
Quayle targeted Shakur's 2pacalypse
Lansing, Mich., where the debate
sidestepped a chance to go toe-to-toe
was to have been held
Now album, which was reportedly play-
with the challenger, briefly touched
ing on the tape deck of a stolen.car
down here Tuesday and lobbed long-dis-
Bush, who will attend a cam-
stopped by trooper Bill Davidson apear
paign function today in Fort
tance jabs at Democrat Bill Clinton.
Victoria last April.
Worth, said he used the six-state
"I have taken it for 11 months listen-
The suspect, Ronald Ray Howard, al-
ing to these guys. and I'll tell you today,
tour to point out what he claims
legedly shot Davidson through the neck.
is Clinton's failed record on
I'm starting to dish it out and tell the
The trooper died three days later. David-
health care, environmental pro-
son's widow has filed a civil suit against
truth about his record," Bush - refer-
tection and other issues.
ring to the opposition as "that sorry tick-
Referring to positive economic
Time Warner, a company subsid-
et" - told cheering supporters at the
news released Tuesday. Bush de-
lary called Interscope and the
Gregg County Airport.
clared the country is "poised for
rap artist.
The Longview stop was part of a six-
a recovery" and "we must not let
"The alleged murderer was lis-
state tour that included Texas, Missouri,
Gov. Clinton get in and tax It
tening to a record that suggested
Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and
back into oblivion."
killing cops was OK," Quayle
said after a Tuesday morning
Oklahoma a tour in which the presi-
The incumbent also continued
meeting with the trooper's
dent hammered at Clinton's record as
his attack on Congress, blaming
it for the nation's WOES. He called
daughter Kimberly, a 21-year-old
governor of Arkansas.
"He talks one way around the nation,"
on the Kilgore Rangerette Drill
criminal justice major at the
the president said. "He delivers misery
Team, which performed at the
University of Houston at Vic-
rally, to help him out.
toria.
at home. We do not need that for
"I wish they could go up to
Field, who heads Interscope,
the nation."
Washington for a few days. They
hosted a fund-raiser for Clinton
He urged voters to "look at the
could go over and take a look at
at his Reverly Hills home earlier
grand canvon between the words
the Congress and nut those high-
Extended Page
8. 1
at his Beverly Hills home earlier
grand canyon between the words
the Congress and put those nign-
this month that raised more than
of candidate Clinton, who is run-
kicking boots to good use," be
$1 million.
ning around the country criticiz-
said.
Tuesday's attack marked
ing me, and the actions of Gov.
Bush also took advantage of a
Quayle's second battle with Time
Clinton, which is a sorry record
not-so-subtle prop rolled onto the
Warner. Earlier this year he crit-
by Texas standards."
air field for his visit - a World
icised "Cop Killer." a song by
The crowd of several thousand
War II bomber similar to the one
rapper Ice-T, who records for the
was decidedly pro-Bush, but a
in which be was shot down over
label.
handful of Clinton backers dis-
the Pacific Ocean in the war.
After meeting with Kimberly
played signs asking why Bush
"I am proud that I served my
Davidson, Quayle took his cam-
opted not to attend Tuesday's
nation in combat," Bush said,
paign to Texas Children's Hospi-
scheduled debate in Michigan.
without making specific refer-
tal where he visited several pa-
Bush's handlers have said they
ence to Clinton's lack of military
did not like the proposed format
service and allegations he
- using a moderator instead of a
dodged the draft during the Viet-
panel of reporters.
nam War.
10
TEL:1-512-472-3848
Sep 24'92
9:18 No 004 P.09
Bush, Quayle visit Texas, decry
Clinton's 'sorry record'
AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN
neck.
By David ENlot
Bush said the Democrate. who
dents unfurled 1 sign and started
American-Stateaman Capitol Staff
Tuesday started running television
chanting "Clinton-Gore! Clinton-
SEP 2 , 1992
ads in Texas criticizing Bush's re-
Gore!" They were led out of the
COLLEGE STATION - Un.
building.
derecoring the importance of Tex-
cord on jobs and the economy,
as in November's election, the
have been spreading lies.
But the campus clearly was Re.
Republican ticket visited the state
"The first negative campaign ad
publican country, as it has been for
more than a decade.
Tuesday, with President Bush at.
in the presidential race of 1992 be.
longs to that sorry ticket of Clin.
While they waited for Quayle,
tacking Democratic nominee Bill
Clinton's environmental record
ton and Gore," Bush said. "I have
the students chanted Aggie yells
taken it for 11 months listening to
and sang fight songs. The vice
and Vice President Dan Quayle de-
claring victory in his war with
these guys, and I tell you today I'm
president entered to thunderous
starting to dish it out and tell the
applause and the tune of Noble
Hollywood.
Saying the Democrats would
truth about his record."
Men of Kyle Field
The president also took aim at
Quayle, who like Clinton has
raise taxes and hurt the economy.
Bush was greeted by about 2,000
Congress by noting the presence of
come under scrutiny for secaping
the Kilgore Rangerettes drill team:
service in Vietnam, was introduced
supporters in the East Texas city
of Longview and Quayle sand-
"I wish they'd go up to Washing-
and began speaking after the
ton for a few days, go over and take
Fightin' Texas Aggie Band played
wiched 4 rally at Texas A&M Uni-
versity between appearances in
& look at the Congress and put
the theme song from Patton.
Houston and Fort Worth.
those high-kicking boots to good
While Quayle did not discuss the
Bush said that as governor of
use."
issue of military service, Bush al-
Some Clinton supporters pro.
luded to his service in World War
Arkansas, Clinton has "a sorry re.
II.
tested at Bush's rally at the Gregg
cord by any Texas standard" on
County Airport. They held up
That drew an angry response
pollution. health care and other is-
signs saying, "Where are the
from Texas Democrats, who won-
sues. The crowd cheered Bush's
jobs?" They said Bush was respon-
dered why. if Bush was so brave, he
call for tax breaks and smaller go-
sible for the sour economy that
avoided the debate with Clinton.
vernment and laughed when he
caused a Longview factory to close
"It's pathetic to are an incum-
said night fishing was popular in
for five weeks, putting 200 people
bent president so desperate that he
Arkansas because "the rivers are
out of work.
has dodged the debate and is
so polluted the fish glow in the
In College Station, some demon-
forced to come to his adopted
dark."
strators protested at the G. Rollie
home state to level attacks at Bill
More than 8,000 students and
White Coliseum, where Quayle
Clinton on non-issues," said Bob
other supporters packed Quayle's
spoke.
Single, chairman of the state Dem-
Outside the coliseum, someone
ocratic Party.
rally at Texas A&M, where Bush
plans to put his presidential li-
dressed as a chicken held a sign
"Bill Clinton is ready to stand
brary. Quayle said Bush should be
that read. "Why are you chicken?
up face to face to debate George
re-elected "because he has the best
We want a debate." Bush refused
Bush about the real issues in this
agenda for the future."
to join Clinton for a debate Tues.
campaign."
"This president knows that to
day night in Michigan.
This article includes material from The
create jobs, you must lower taxes
Inside the coliseum, four stu-
Associated Press.
and empower our people instead of
empowering government," Quayle
said.
The overwhelmingly pro-Re-
publican audience hissed at every
mention of Clinton and cheered
State to appeal judge's
when Quayle accused the enter-
tainment industry of undermining
traditional family values.
"I want the people to write the
aquifer ruling
future of America and I want Hol-
lywood to start reflecting our val-
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT SEP 1 3
use," Quayle said.
Hall said his agency will work with the Texas
By VERONICA FLORES
Earlier. Quayle pronounced
Agriculture Department to develop an aquifer
himself the victor in his fight over
management plan, but called on Agriculture
the sitcom Murphy Brown, which
Texas Water Commission
Commissioner Rick Perry to "set aside partisan
be had accused of "mocking the
Chairman John Hall announced
politics and use his leadership" with farmers to
importance of fathers" because the
Tuesday the state will appeal a
show features a single mother. The
state court ruling that struck
avert a federal takeover of the embattied water
source.
program's season premiere took a
down his agency's takeover of
poke at Quayle on Monday night.
the Edwards Aquifer,
The water commission's plan would limit Ed.
If that Sept. 11 decision
wards pumping to 450,000 acre-feet per year
On Tuesday, Quayle said Holly-
wood to "out of step with the
stands, Hall warned at a San Antonio news con-
and eventually chop 50,000 off that. But imple-
ference, aquifer users could find the federal
mentation of the plan was postponed until next
American people" but added,
"We're winning the battle, believe
government in control of the vast underground
June 30 to give the Legislature a chance to re-
me. They will now ask themselves
water supply.
write state water laws governing the aquifer.
the question every time they make
And federal officials would act, the state
Perry, a Republican who last week lambasted
a movie or put out a TV show,
the agency Internal chief predicted, "with the compassion of
Hall, issued a statement praising the water com-
Revenue
Service
the
mission's decision not to implement its plan
Extended Page
9.1
. VI pur OUL a 1 V snow,
What does this say about tradi-
the Internal Revenue Service and the efficiency
aws NW imprement sup pasu
tional values?"
of the Postal Service."
right away and its. decision to seek a continu-
Speaking at the Edwards Underground Water
ance in the federal lawsuit that demands
The Republicans' visits come a
enough water flow for Comal Springs to protect
month after Clinton and his run-
District offices, Hall said the "health, safety and
endangered species that live there.
ning mate, Tennessee Sen. AI
economic well-being of 1.5 million people in this
Gore, took a two-day bus trip
state" hangs in the balance of the final decision
The Associated Press contributed to this
through Central and East Texas.
of who controls the aquifer.
report.
Texas, which has 32 electoral
State District Judge Pete Lowry of Austin
votes, is Bush's adopted home
found earlier this month that the aquifer is not
state, and many analysts say be
an "underground river" as the water commis-
must win Taxas to win the Nov. 3
sion had maintained in justifying its state take-
election. Bush was once 17 per.
over April 15. Without that designation, Lowry
centage points behind Clinton in
ruled, the aquifer is not subject to state control.
the opinion polls in Texas, but the
But Hall said the Judge failed to address sci-
two now are running neck and
entific evidence supporting the "river"
designation.
12
TEL 1-512-472-3848
Sep 24'92
9:19 No. 004 P.10
Bush attacks Clinton's record
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Michael Dukakis for Boston Har.
as Arkansas governor
bor's foul waters.
Despite the negative reviews
he's received from many civil
rights leaders, Mr. Bush chastised
By Susan Feeney SEP 2 3 1952
Regarding Arkansas, Mr. Bush
Mr. Clinton for failing to pass a
Washington Buress of The Dallas Maraing News
slammed what he said was the
civil rights statute. Arkansas is one
LONGVIEW, Texas - President
state's regressive tax system. a "hor.
of only two states without one, he
Bush. declining to debate Bill Clin-
for show" that relies heavily on
said.
100 in person Tuesday, chose In-
sales taxes.
In Shreveport. Clinton campaign
stead to ring Arkenses in a six-state
At one point he called Mr. Clin-
aides distributed copies of a
campaign fly-eround that targeted
ton "Governor Taxes" - a "Freud-
the governor's home-state record.
handwritten note from the presi-
Mr. Bush - declaring himself
ian slip," the president said.
dent to the governor dated Sept. 29,
"ured of the distortions, tired of the
The president pegged Arkansas
1989, praising Mr. Clinton for his
half-truths" spread about him by
as among the worst states on the
work on education.
the Democrats - launched a full.
amount of time prison inmates
"Well. done, oh so well done,"
serve of their sentences and the
throated attack on Mr. Clinton's 12-
said the note. "You were a joy to
year-tenure as governor of the
number of workers with private
work with on our (education) sum-
health Insurance.
state.
mit and all our folks feel that way. I
In particular, the president ques.
He also cited its pollution.
guess partisan politics will strain
tioned Mr. Clinton's handling of
"If you go swimming in an Ar-
some relationships in '90 but I re-
civil rights. crime. taxes, child care.
kansas river, keep you mouth
ally want education reform out
health care and pollution in Arkan-
closed and hold your nose," Mr.
there above the fray. I'll try to do
sas' rivers from industrial "chicken
Bush said, evoking shades of his
that and I know you will continue
litter."
1988 attack on Massachusetts Gov.
to as well."
Standing before Air Force One
and speaking at R rowdy Longview
airport rally packed with bands and
cheerleaders, Mr. Bush said: "Look
Market-based
system could
at the Grand Canyon between the
plot of land to grow their own crops.
words of candidate Clinton run-
save water
These private plots only 1 percent of
ning around the country criticizing
the farmland - actually produced 27
AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN
me and the actions of Governor
percent of the total Soviet agricultural
Clinton. This is 8 sorry record by
By Rick Perry SEP 2 3 1992
production. Private ownership gave
Special 10 the American-Statesman
any Texas standard."
farmers enough pride and enough incen-
The president, who was joined
Ensuring a safe, plentiful water sup-
tive to outdo their efforts on govern-
on the stage by Texas Senate Dis.
ply is an issue crucial to the well-being
ment land many times over. That says a
of every Texan one that will certainly
great deal about human nature and
trict 2 candidate Florence Shapiro,
intensify as we move into the 21st can-
about our potential to succeed. provided
said Mr. Clinton "talks one way
around the nation. He delivers mis-
tury. Thus, we must answer this ques-
we have a reason for doing so.
ary at home."
tion: How can we
Ownership also spurs agricultural
Mr. Clinton, at a rally in East
PUBLIC
guarantee $ sufficient
producers to manage their resources
supply of water to satis-
wisely - their water as well as their
Lansing. Mich., dismissed Mr.
Bnsh's criticisms as an exercise in
FORUM
fy the necessary but
land. In Texas, ground Water manage-
"diversion, denial and division."
competing demands of
ment has historically been based on the
George Stephanopoulos, Clinton
agriculture, industry and a statewide
"right of capture," the decades-old time-
population that is expected to double in
honored premise that bestows owner-
communications director, said in a
the next 50 years?
ship of water on the owner of the land
statement distributed in Shreve-
We can do it, first of all, by challeng-
above. Under this system, farmers and
port La, "George Bush is skirting
ing the assumption that government
ranchers have led the way in developing
around Arkansas today, just the way
ownership offers the best solution for
efficient methods of water use.
be skirts around the real issues of
protecting our precious natural re-
the campaign."
There is room for improvement, how-
sources. The premise that puts bureau-
ever. Though ownership of ground wa-
Brad Coker, president of the Ms.
cratic regulation above the rights of
ter is vested in property owners in the
son-Dixon polling firm in Mary.
private property owners is not only
Texas Water Code, this property right is
land, said Mr. Bush's anti-Clinton
false, it actually promotes problems for
loosely defined. which affects the incen-
push was a wise move, considering
our environment.
Look, for example. at the Pacific
tive to conserve. A market-based system
separate national surveys that show
Northwest, where a combination of fed.
for ground water with well-defined, on-
the Democrat's lead over Mr. Bush
orally operated dams and reservoirs and
foresable and transferable property
ranging from 8 to 21 percentage
points.
state policies that prevent the resale of
rights based on the surface ownership
would more accurately reflect water's
water rights has contributed mightily to
"They've got to do something dif.
economic and ecological value to soci-
ferent because what they've been
the depletion of salmon populations.
ety. By strictly defining the ownership
doing wasn't working." Mr. Coker
The salmon's asssonal need for high
of underground water, It can be given a
said. "They basically, at this point,
water levels to journey to its summer
value just as land has - and become
have to destroy Bill Clinton. It's a
spawning grounds coincides with peak
subject to the efficiencies of the market-
desperate strategy. It might work,
.consumer demand for electricity in the
place. Water rights would be more mar-
but they better have some strong
West. So, it would make good sense to
ketable, and owners would be able to sell
stuff."
produce and sell more hydroslectricity
water to buyers at a price reflecting
during these peak months and to con-
market demand.
With six weeks until Election
serve It when demand is low. Consumers
Day, Mr. Bush made stops in every
would benefit and so would the salmon.
Such a markst-based system would
state horders Arkansas. hitting
replace government control of water -
and
the
anacter
of
Extended Page 10. 1
state that borders Arkansas, hitting
Unfortunately, a mass of bureauerat-
and the specter of rationing, expensive
Springfield, Mo.; Tulsa; Longview;
ic regulations - combined with the
financing programs and confiscation of
Shreveport; Greenville, Miss.: and
West's "use it or loss it" rule that often
water rights by a contralized bureaucra-
Memphis. Tenn.
prevents resale of water rights - makes
cy. Government involvement would re-
such & sensible solution nearly impossi-
main in the hands of local water
In 1968, be won each of the six
bls, and the salmon species has suffered.
districts that would define owners'
states handily.
Our natural resources are better left
rights and device enforcement methods
"It's amazing that they're wast.
in the hands of private citizens, who are
appropriate to each locality.
ing an entire day dealing with what
more likely than government agencies
In Texas, a market-based system -
should be their base," said Des Das
to care for them. It's a question of stew-
achieved by placing a value on water in-
Myers, the Clinton press secretary.
ardship vs. bureaucracy. And private
ventories - would motivate agricultur-
For his part, Mr. Bush said the
ownership provides the impetus for
al producers to increase even further
U.S. economy "15 poised for takeoff
stewardship. It gives people a vested in-
their conservation efforts and enhance
if we make the right choices in No-
terest in their property, instills pride in
supplies for future generations. It's a
vember."
what they own. When you own some-
system whose time has come - one that
think. it's yours. You care more about it.
Texans should seriously consider as we
In the former Soviet Union. families
determine the future of our water.
on collective farms were allotted a small
TEL :1-512-472-3848
Sep 24'92
9:16 No.004 P.06
The Dallas Morning News
Thursday, September 24, 1992
EDITORIALS
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES
What the public has learned from debates so far:
Canceled
Fort Worth Star-Telegram / Thursday, September 24, 1992
Bush's son avoided service in Vietnam
BY DAVE MONTGOMERY
ferments, arranging to enroll in a
Fon Worth Star- Telegram Washington Burcau
duty," Bush said, defending his de-
Clinton's draft status controversy
student reserve officers program,
cision to join the reserves. "You can
WASHINGTON President
has focused attention on men who
and a low lottery number in the
die in an airplane crash anytime."
Bush's oldest son, George W. Bush,
draft.
were of draft age during the Vict-
stayed out of the draft through stu-
Of Bush's four sons, only George
Bush said a comparison between
nam War and on whether they
dent deferments and service in the
his draft background and that of the
served in the military.
W. Bush of Dallas, who at 46 is the
reserves, while the president's three
Democratic nominee was if-
Documents on file at Selective
TEL:1-512-472-3848
same age as Clinton, was vulnerable
other sons were too young to be
relevant. "The election is between
to the draft at the height of the Vict-
Service headquarters in Washing-
called for Vietnam-era service, ac-
nam War. He received deferments
Bill Clinton and George Bush.
ton show that George W. Bush ob-
cording to a review of Selective Ser-
as an undergraduate student while
"The issue isn't whether Mr.
tained five student deferments from
vice documents.
attending Yale University. After
Clinton went into the military,"
1964 to 1967 while he was attending
The president raised the draft
graduating in 1968, he joined a
said the president's son, who is an
Yale as a history major. During his
issue against Democratic nominee
Houston-based jet fighter unit in the
adviser and troubleshooter in his fa-
six years in the Texas National
Bill Clinton for the first time this
Texas National Guard.
ther's re-election campaign. "The
Guard, he was shielded from the
week, calling on his challenger to
Bush, who is managing general
issue is why he would not tell the
draft with a I-D classification as a
"come clean with the American
partner of the Texas Rangers base-
truth" about his draft status.
reservist.
people" about his efforts to stay out
ball team, said in a telephone inter-
In an interview with conservative
Selective Service spokesman Lew
of the military during the Vietnam
view yesterday that be chose the Na-
War.
talk show host Rush Limbaugh in
Brodsky said Bush's draft back-
tional Guard to fly F-102 fighters
New York on Monday, the presi-
ground was "very typical of the men
Sep 24'92
Clinton, who has acknowledged
and served 53 weeks on active duty.
dent expressed the same theme in
of the period. There is nothing unu-
his opposition to the war, has come
His unit rotated pilots to Vietnam,
contending that Clinton's inconsis-
sual in these records."
under fire for inconsistencies in ex-
but Bush wasn't sent.
tent statements about his draft sta-
plaining his draft status. He a voided
Brodsky said the three other Bush
"When you're flying a fighter air-
tus raised questions about bis char-
military service through student de-
sons were not subject to the draft
plane, that's not exactly cushy
acter.
because of their age.
9:15 P.05