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During his chairmanship of the Texas War on Drugs Committee, Perot supported several unorthodox police procedures. None has generated more heat than his call for a "civil war" against crime and drugs. In 1988 two different journalists wrote that Perot encouraged Dallas cops to "go in ((to high-crime neighborhoods)), cordon off the whole area, going block by block, looking for guns and drugs." When the stories first appeared, Perot was mum -- a telling silence since no one can recall his having ever let a perceived inaccuracy stand uncorrected. Today, however, with such famous civil libertarians as Dan Quayle predicting...
...reported, Perot's scheme would probably violate any number of individual rights. But the basic notion is sound: no amount of inner-city investment will revitalize America's urban areas if the people who live there fear for their lives. Security, as all the candidates say, with varying emphasis, must be the first priority. All three have embraced community policing, the concept that would add cops to the streets on the theory that only intimate associations can eventually cause residents and officers to trust one another. But "c- pop," as it is known, can work only after an area...
...mudslinging match erupts between Bush and Perot...
...next step for Clinton and Perot: choosing a running mate...
Which leaves Perot. Suburban Chicago politicians fear that the drug gangs will simply move to what Lane calls "normal" neighborhoods if the projects are swept "clean." "But that would be great," he insists. "Nationally, we'll never get a handle on violent crime until 'normal' folks feel the fear that's felt in the ghetto. Only then will they scream for the kind of law enforcement, including things like house-by-house searches, that gives content to all the law-and-order rhetoric. Ross may have gone too far, but he's on the right track." Which means Perot might...