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. SOUND COMING:
EXTERIOR BLDG.
Dallas city and county leaders pour over facts and figures at the Statler-Hilton Hotel, looking for the
answer to the crime problem.
It's hard to come by,
but Mayor Jonsson, in opening sexx the session, says will appoint a committee of eight to search for the
answer.
Today's talk session, one in a series, hears
he
dealt the argument that the crime rate cannot be dft t with by policeman alone. 1 City Manager Crull says that for several years the crime incidence fell as more policeman
were added to the force, but no more.
Something new is
affecting the situation, says Crull, and he is inclined to place part of the lame on the heavy backlog of cases in the Dallas criminal courts.I\District Attorney Wade says the problem settles down to economics; he says more prosecutors are needed to try the cases, more courts to try them in. And, despite Crull's figures, Wade says the county needs three times as many lawmen as are