assess a previously unsuccessful policy

General Instructions: Imagine you are interviewed by a reporter from the New York Times about President Clinton’s Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. You take notes during your interview to prepare for a memo you must submit to your supervisor in this week’s

briefings
. Include the following in your submission:

• Appraise the political and societal issues in the 1990s.
• Present the crime rate in the early 1990s.
• Provide an overview of the policy.
• Justify the political explanation
  
  for
  the policy.
• Critique the goals and objectives of the policy and determine if they have been reached.
• Explain why and how the policy failed.
• Facilitate suggestions for improvements to the policy.

Support

your
assignment with at FIVE scholarly resource references.

Length: 7 pages, not including title and reference pages.

Assignment
should be double spaced, font 14, and New Times Roman writing style. APA format.

Your

assignment should
demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic.