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The twelvepoint anticrime package that Cummings crafted and sent to Congress for enactment was cautiously received. No one seriously questioned that local law enforcement agencies seemed to lack the technology and means of coordination needed to deal with this outbreak of lawlessness, but concerns regarding the long-term impact of the changes the attorney general had recommended persisted. To overcome this resistance, Cummings and his department set out to define more clearly those areas of enforcement that were of particular concern to the federal government. The package he presented became one of the most important and least recognized of the New Deal reforms. For the first time in its history the federal government would receive a comprehensive criminal code, outlawing the interstate transportation of stolen property, racketeering in interstate commerce, and flight across state lines to avoid prosecution, and also making it...
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