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The National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (also known unofficially as the Wickersham Commission) was a committee established by the U.S. president, Herbert Hoover, on May 20, 1929.
The Wickersham Commission is the popular name for the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, which was appointed by President herbert hoover in 1929.
The Wickersham Commission is the popular name for the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, which was appointed by President HERBERT HOOVER in 1929.
Officially known as the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, it was spear-headed by former Attorney General George W. Wickersham and contained some of the most noted names in law enforcement at the time.
The National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (also known unofficially as the Wickersham Commission) was established on May 20, 1929 by Hoover under the chairmanship of former attorney general George W. Wickersham, pursuant to the Supplemental Appropriation Act (45 Stat. 1613), March 4, 1929.
The production of the 1931 Report on Lawlessness in Law Enforcement by the Wickersham Commission is one of the most important events in the history of American policing.
commission of a crime and descriptions of the criminals may be quickly spread over a wide territory and as part of that, the necessary equip-ment in motors to pursue traces of the criminals making their escape. By imitating modern business in its adoption of every mechanical contrivance which will save labor and secure profitable results with the
The first part of the chapter considers the work of prior crime commissions, notably the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (the Wickersham Commission), established by President Herbert Hoover in 1929 and the 1967 President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice.
…through his work on the Wickersham Commission, which was set up to examine law observance and enforcement in the era of Prohibition, Vollmer exposed to public scrutiny many unconstitutional police practices, particularly the use of physical or mental torture—the “third degree”—in the interrogation of suspects.
The National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, more popularly known as the Wickersham Commission, was embedded in President Herbert C. Hoover’s broader policy initiative to improve the federal criminal justice system.