1st Annual Repo,rt of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Fiscal Year 1969 / U.S. Department of Justice Letter of Transmittal LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Washington, D.C. 20530 To the President and to the Congress of the United States: We are submitting to you the first annual report of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), for the fiscal year 1969. The bulk of the report concerns the details of the program, authorized slightly more than one year ago by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, to help reduce and prevent crime and to make the nation safer for all of its citizens. It also contains a complete list of the financial assistanlce given by LEAA, since nearly all of the agency's $63 million budget for first-year operations was for grants to: State and local governments, a variety of research and assistance projects, and an education program for law enforcement personnel. • Respectfully submitted, CHARLES H. RooovIN, Administrator RICHARD w. VELDE, Associate Administrator August 31, 1969 " .. Contents Page CHAPTER 1 A SUMMARY OF THE LAW EN­ FORCEMENT ASSISTANCEADMIN- ISTRATIGN PROGRAM............ 1 OFFICE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT PROGRAMS....................... 7 3 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAW EN­ FORCEMENT AND CRIMINAL JUS- TICE.............................. 23 4 OFFICE OF ACADEMIC ASSIST- ANCE............................. 29 COMPLETE LIST OF FISCAL 1969 AWARDS MADE BY THE LAW EN­ FORCEMENT ASSISTANCE AD­ MINISTRATION TABLES Planning and Action Grants to the States .......................... 33 2 Grants Awarded From Discretionary Funds........................... 34 3 Academic Assistance Awards. 37 4 National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice: Abstracts of Grants, Listed Consecutively by Grant Number. 45 5 National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice: Grants Listed by State and Grant Number. 56 6 National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice: Distribution of Funds by Type of Grantee.......... 58 7 National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice: Distribution of Funds by Progra~ Area............ 58 8 National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice: Distribution of Funds by Category..... .......... 58 9 National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice: Grants Listed by Category.... " . ..,. .. 59 APPENDICES A List of State Law Enforcement Planning Agencies . 62 B Collaboration With Federal Agencies by the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice . 66 ILLUSTRATIONS Organization Chart of the Law Enforce- ment Assistance Administration. vr Distribution of LEAA Funds. 4 Programs To Be Supporte:d With States' Action Grants: Fiscal 1969 . 10 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION ATIDRIUY IDRGANIZATIDN CHARTI GENERAL IJIU IJ THE ADMWISTRATIN ADMINISTRATOR BOARD Of ASSOCIAlt ADMWISTRATDR APPfAIS ASSOCIATE AIJol NISTRATOR G£11EIW. INTUIGIIVEJIINMENrM. PIii.i: ICRIIIMATIDN D>UNSll ~ISON!STAff STAFF DFFEE Of ACADEMI: NATIJIW. CRIMl'CAI. JUSTICE NATIONAL fiSflTlllt OF ASSISTANCE SfAllillCS 6 NURMATIJN IAW INRKEMINT AND arm11 ·an~ ORCTOII DRCTIJII ·llPlllY. DIIICIDII IIPUTY DIIICTIJI DEPUTY DllltCIOR IISEARQI PLANNING 6 Dl'BIATDMI. aJORDMTIDN UPORT STAFF SflfF I I "·-·I ---·I CElfflll. FIJICIIIE PIIMNTlON AIID RIIIAIIIUTATlDN VI Chapter 1 A Summary of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Program Grants -Indiana will work to reduce racial tensions, strengthen narcotics control, and support defense of The first comprehensive national crime control indigents. program enacted by Congress formally began opera­ -Iowa's largest budget item is for prevention tions on October 21, 1968. By June 30, 1969, plans for and control or juvenile delinquency. criminal justice reforms had been submitted by 50 -Kansas will strengthen corrections programs. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Is­ -Kentucky is stressing crime prevention and lands, and Guam-and they had received action grants police research and training. totaling ·more than $25 million to carry out the -Louisiana will develop a uniform court plans. records system. The plans varied, since states set their own -Maine will use half of its funds to improve priorities for use of the federal funds, but all included police selection and training. programs to improve police, corrections, and courts. -Maryland will work to reduce recidivism by Here are examples of the diversity of state projects sup­ former inmates. ported by action funds: -Massachusetts will improve management -Alabama will modernize police departments and operations of criminal justice agencies. and conduct juvenile delinquency prevention projects. -Michigan will s~end one-tenth of its $1 -Alaska will create a state-wide criminal million grant to train juvenile court staffs and pro­ justice teletype network. bation aides. -Ariwna is using one-third of its funds for -Minnesota will enhance police education and police training. training and create a riot-readiness program. -Arkansas will expand police research, begin -Mississippi will improve training standards public education in crime control, and purchase new for police and corrections personnel and develop a police equipment. · uniform crime reports program. -California is allocating more than $800,000 -Missouri will strengthen prosecutors' offices to improve prevention and control of civil disorders. and create a criminal justice information system. 4 -Colorado will obtain new communications -Montana is developing a program of pub­ equipment to serve a number of police jurisdictions. lic education, crime prevention, and community -Connecticut will create crime prevention pro­ involvement. grams and community homes for delinq1:1ents. -Nebraska will improve law enforcement com­ -Delaware will develop community relations munications systems. units and conduct corrections research. -New Hampshire will expand rehabilitation -Florida is using $312,000 of its $867,100 grant progfams for adult offenders and combat drug abuse. to build a criminal justice information system. -Georgia will begin a pilot program of work -Nevada will improve police communications releaoe for inmates of correctional institutions. and equipment. -Hawaii will support crime laboratory facil­ -New Jersey will strengthen crime prevention ities. and control through a project to reduce police re­ -Idaho will conduct training seminars for sponse time. judges and develop a procedures manual for -New Mexico is Jpending 20 percent of its magistrates. funds to improve corrections. -Illinois will study approaches to controlling -New York will improve police patrol, and organized crime and conduct drug abuse education. combat organized crime. I 2 LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION I -North Carolina will revise its criminal code approved by the S~nate on May 23 and the House and improve case preparation, court sentencing and of Representatives on June 6. Title I, creating the scheduling, and rehabilitation of offenders. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), -North Dakota will work to control alcohol­ began with this statement: ism and crime. Congress finds that the high incidence of crime -Ohio will enhance police training and equip­ in the United States threatens the peace, security, ment and develop a criminal justice information and general welfare of the Nation and its citizens. system. To prevent crime and to insure the greater safety -Oklahoma is expanding both its probation­ of the people, law enforcement efforts must be parole services and police-community relations better coordinated, intensified, and made more programs. effective at all levels of government. -Oregon will create ,vays· to improve appre­ Congress finds fu.rther that crime is essentially hension and prosecution of offenden. a local problem that must be dealt with by State -Pennsylvania is expanding juvenile delin­ and local governments if it is to be controlled quency and courts-prosecution-defense programs. effectively. -Rhode Island is consolidating police support It is therefore the declared policy of the Con­ services in the Western part of the state and improv­ gress to assist State and local governments in ing the police communications system in Providence. strengthening and improving law enforcement at -South Carolina will expand police training every level by national assistance. It is the purpose and re-codify its criminal code. of this title to (1) encourage States and units of -South Dakota will create a juvenile court general local government to prepare and adopt center and strengthen narcotics control. comprehensive pIJns based upon their evaluation -Tennessee will intensify training for correc­ of State and local problems of law enforcement; tions and police personnel and unify the court system. (2) authorize grants to States and units of local -Texas projects will improve communications government in order to improve and strengthen and information systems for police and community law enforcement; and (3) encourage research and relations programs. development directed toward the improvement of -Utah.will enlarge police operations and re­ law enforcement and the development of new vise the criminal code. methods for the prevention and reduction of crime -Vermont will improve police training and and the detection and apprehension of criminals. communications and develop a law enforcement manual. This first annual report by LEAA to the Presi­ -Virginia will create regional crime labora­ dent and to Congress contains