Crime Prevention Month, 1994

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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