American Decades

Report

By: National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement

Date: January 7, 1931

Source: National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement. Report on the Enforcement of the Prohibition Laws in the United States. Volume 1, No. 2. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1931. Available online at http://www.drugtext.org/reports/wick/Default.htm; website home page: http://www.drugtext.org (accessed March 1, 2003).

About the Organization: The National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, later called the Wickersham Commission, was formed when President Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) proposed, in his inaugural address of 1929, that a federal commission study the problem of crime. The commission was chaired by George W. Wickersham, who had been...