Public Law 89–196

JOINT RESOLUTION

To authorize funds for the Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice and the District of Columbia Commission on Crime and Law Enforcement.

Whereas the President by Executive Order 11236 on July 23, 1965,

30 F. R. 9349.

established the Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice to study crime in the United States and to recommend ways to reduce and prevent it; and

Whereas the President by Executive Order 11234 on July 16, 1965,

30 F. R. 9049.

established the Commission on Crime in the District of Columbia to study the causes of crime mid delinquency in the District of Columbia: and

Whereas there has been a steady increase in crime in the Nation as well as in the District of Columbia: and

Whereas there is a need to ascertain its causes mid to develop methods which can be undertaken by Federal, State, and local governments to combat such crime: Therefore be it

Resolved by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Approved September 21, 1965.