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, (Ao : 1 n a : se wl, noi , ‘ Federal, state, and county commissions or conferences , te study erin lave been springing up in response to { public consera, a } which issued its report eatly this year after two years of stady. [n spite of the supposed thoroughness of the Senate aud House committees n their own studies. Th: executive and legislative branches of the state were both studying crime this week Gor. Rockefellers . Cein:e Conference was scheduled for today, and a Joint Lez-siative Committee chaired by Assemblyman Bertram . Poceti (D-Bkin.) opened hearings Tuesday on crime in the ~ ; , An official Nassau panel on crime prevention began ‘Operations last ingath. county's penel is the kind of locai organization suggested by the President's Commis- sion, and it may receive federal funds if Congress passes a federa! crime bill, Hempstead Presiding Supervisor Ralph G. Caso has also called his own meeting on crime preven- tion. County Executive Dennison of Suffolk said that he. "4 plans no crime commissions and that he has little doubt - £ that somne of the crime studies are politically motivated. Backers of crime studies say that they are responding to a growing public concern which is oo an in " Greasing crime rate. But Ned Polsky, a criminologist who a ee ~s-. Se ey The biggest was the Presidcat’s Crime Commissiaa, - - ‘that a br ou inst crime i raised every decade, . aia aga : ~ mend legislation and Sn enn name eee: . * Pe eS ee ne . a . teaches st Stony Brook, questioned yesterday both the crime rate statistics and the popular j i celing. Polly mid 2, Fo- of crime appears to be rising faster than. it is in fact because more eriine is ted now. He added * and said he doubts this one will last Jonger than the others. - - Polsky said that some anticrime fecling is a disguise foe . anti-Negro feeling. “White fears of Negrocs moving into the suburbs often come out as concern about crime,” he = = said, though the victims of most crimes committed by on, Negroes are other Negroes. 7 ne . But David H. Peirez, a Mineola attorney who is a member of Nassau’s Crime Prevention Commiszion, said _ the increase in crime is genuine. He blamed the increase - ; on 2 growing disregard for authority among the young not. and said that better police-community relations might help os CME Nn ne ARE ES . Oy om mo vie vn 3 “ reduce the soaring juvenile crime rate. . we Podell said the increase in crime is the result of what he called the disorderly times in which we live. He said the .. state needs more police, more judges, and more and better ° Prisons. Peirez said the county's commission would revo: O70 85 local agencies to eree OD policy improvements. He said he is confident ¢ tthe. commission could help fight crime, but added thatgoe > commission for the county enough. -ardirAy 9: i Ldn Meh pads $ rr, bee ee ar + 2 ote oy = - =e = r £0 z