[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: April 19, 1994]
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    WE MUST TAKE THE HANDCUFFS OFF POLICE IF CRIME REFORM IS TO WORK

  (Mr. APPLEGATE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. APPLEGATE. Mr. Speaker, three strikes and you're out, more death 
penalty crimes, more cops on the street, more habeas corpus reform, and 
it sounds good but it is not going to work unless we take the handcuffs 
off of the police and let them do what they are trained to do and what 
they are paid to do.
  What else we need, tougher standards have to be put on the judges in 
this land, elected or appointed. We have to get rid of the wimpy judges 
who slap perpetrators of heinous crimes on the wrist and send them back 
onto the streets to rob, mug, and murder our people. There is something 
wrong.
  Last, let us change our trade policy to bring our jobs back into the 
country instead of shipping them out, because people that are working 
do not get into trouble. Think about it.

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