[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 196 (Wednesday, October 12, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 51489-51490]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-25425]


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[Federal Register: October 12, 1994]




                        Presidential Documents 



                Proclamation 6733 of October 5, 1994

 

Crime Prevention Month, 1994

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Finding solutions to the problems of crime and violence 
                must be a top priority for our Nation. Parents should 
                not be afraid to let their children walk to school 
                alone. Children should never hesitate to play in 
                neighborhood playgrounds. No longer should innocent 
                Americans of all ages find their lives forever changed 
                by crime. Americans have endured enough.

                Our Nation made a major leap forward in the effort to 
                find lasting solutions when I signed into law the long-
                awaited crime bill--the toughest, smartest Federal 
                attack on crime in our history. The Violent Crime 
                Control and Law Enforcement Act is the first major 
                Federal anti-crime legislation enacted in 6 years. It 
                authorizes more than $5 billion in Federal assistance 
                over the next 6 years to help States and communities 
                implement a broad range of new crime and drug abuse 
                prevention programs.

                Prevention is the first, critical step in my 
                Administration's three-pronged strategy for crime 
                control. Accompanied by stringent law enforcement and 
                by certain, appropriate punishment, prevention is one 
                of our Nation's most effective weapons against crime, 
                violence, and the spread of illicit drugs. Across the 
                country, people are already working to bring about 
                positive change in their communities. They are 
                establishing neighborhood watches and citizen patrols. 
                They are working with law enforcement officers to close 
                down drug houses. They are cleaning up playgrounds and 
                parks and creating drug-free school zones. They are 
                taking back their streets from all those who would seek 
                to cause harm.

                The National Citizens' Crime Prevention Campaign--
                sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, the 
                Advertising Council, the Crime Prevention Coalition, 
                and the National Crime Prevention Council--is also 
                working to help implement crime prevention efforts in 
                American urban, suburban, and rural areas and on U.S. 
                military bases worldwide. The Crime Prevention 
                Coalition sponsors Crime Prevention Month each October 
                to emphasize the importance of personal involvement and 
                to promote community-police partnerships for crime 
                control. Crime Prevention Month challenges every 
                American to take individual and collective action to 
                prevent crime. It teaches us that working together, we 
                can make a difference.

                The Congress, by House Joint Resolution 363, has 
                designated October 1994 as ``Crime Prevention Month'' 
                and has authorized and requested the President to issue 
                a proclamation in observance of this month.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 
                1994 as Crime Prevention Month. I encourage residents 
                in communities throughout the Nation to observe this 
                month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and 
                activities.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen 
                hundred and ninety-four, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and 
                nineteenth.

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[FR Doc. 94-25425
Filed 10-7-94; 4:51 pm]
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