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Governor Herbert Lehman called this crime conference on July 23, 1935 in response to the U.S. Attorney General's National Crime Conference held in Washington in 1934. The national conference stressed the need for a coordinated law enforcement program throughout the nation.
The New York conference, held September 30 to October 3, 1935 in Albany, was a forum for discussion of crime and crime prevention by attorneys, judges, law enforcement administrators, government officials, and others with law enforcement responsibilities or interests. The conference was conducted in four general sessions with reports from five round table (subcommittee) discussion groups.
The recommendations generated by this conference led to Governor Lehman's anti-crime program, presented to the legislature in 1936. The legislature made substantial revisions to the Code of Criminal Procedure and the County, Executive, Judiciary, Correction, and Penal Laws.
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