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...course, setting such contingencies for presidential campaigns is a dangerous precedent. Where would the contingencies stop? Should we really be telling candidates what to do? What's to stop us from making campaign funds contingent on a campaign visit to the South Bronx? To set a debate stipulation, we must be sure we consider it of utmost importance. Will debate enrich the elective process...
...hundred or so set up across the U.S. in recent years in response to studies showing that a relatively few hard-core criminals are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime. The first was New York City's major offense bureau (MOB) in The Bronx district attorney's office, which began in 1973. MOB'S success inspired the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) to invest $30 million of federal money in 50 similar projects over a five-year period starting in 1975. Since then, 10,000 criminals who committed a total of 80,000 offenses have been...
...fiscal retrenchment, with a reactionary Republican and a conservative Democrat vying for the presidency, urban development projects are not priorities. The White House and the New York Governor's office both appear hesitant to commit their shares of the $200 million a year for seven years which the South Bronx plan entails. Without the commitment of this sum--far smaller than the monies given to Boston in the 1960's--Logue will not be able to recast his success story...
...MORE THAN JUST MONEY may stall the Logue plan. In New York today, Ed Logue lacks the clout he had at the BRA 15 years ago. The governments of New York City and State are so vast, and sources of funding for South Bronx projects so diffuse, that Logue simply does not have the authority to make deals with the private sector. Bureaucrats at the city, state, and federal levels repeatedly throw wrenches into plans by undermining what little authority he does have, or by sealing up needed funds...
Last week, Logue assessed the most difficult obstacle his South Bronx plan must overcome. The vastness of government in the '80s has inevitably brought with it bureaucratic tensions and foul-ups. Logue is a man with a vision of what he can do in the Bronx, but today he lacks the power to streamline his plan through government's bureaucratic steeplechase. If he doesn't get this power, Boston may remain his only testament of what government can do. The South Bronx could instead become a national symbol of an unmoveable government crippled by its own vastness...