00:00:08.740 - 00:00:26.150

Marine city is only important because it is an experiment. In the last year and more specifically, in the last two months, there has risen the tragic but definite possibility that we in America in the mid sixties are not yet ready. For a racially and economically mixed

00:00:26.150 - 00:00:44.410

community like Marin City. That was the somber meaning of a meeting held this morning before the Marin County Board of Supervisors. The meeting was an emergency one to try to put an end to a vicious and growing wave of robberies and burglaries that have some residents

00:00:44.420 - 00:01:06.480

of Marine city living in fear. Mrs. Craig, your resident of Marine City, yes, what is the current attitude? Their current atmosphere? I can only speak for myself. Uh, there have been repeated burglaries and armed burglaries, and this is a grave problem. How many times have you

00:01:06.480 - 00:01:27.080

been burglarized twice? Mr. Edward Moose of the California Development Company is one of those economically concerned with Marine City. It's the concept, uh, of building a new town in Inter, racially embracing all economic groups. Etcetera, uh, implies that you have just a good a school Justus,

00:01:27.080 - 00:01:43.630

good recreation and Justus good. A police department as anybody else. And at the moment when one of these areas breaks down, then your concept begins to break down, and this is what's happening to us now. We've had the impression in the past that it's actually only

00:01:43.630 - 00:02:02.320

been a handful of lawbreakers who've spread a whole attitude of fearfulness in this. Do you feel that from everything I know and everything I've been able to learn from sophisticated members of the marine city community? We are talking about rather a handful, probably 15 or so,

00:02:02.330 - 00:02:24.910

uh, people who are disrupting the entire city. In any case, Sheriff Lewis Montana's has been authorized to put up a temporary sheriff substation in Marin City. The last one, incidentally, was burned and sacked during the Marine city riots about 10 months ago. Well, the problem, as

00:02:24.910 - 00:02:39.750

was spoken in the board meeting, is on economics and recreation, unemployment situation. But we must have law and order, and I hope that these others facets that we spoke of follow. But law and order shall be maintained, and we are certainly pleased with the respond to

00:02:39.750 - 00:02:54.590

the community in cooperation support of the local law enforcement agency that would be located Marine city, Lanny buries a special assistant to the principle of Tamil pious high. It seems to me that the Negroes and whites over the last 10 years have been saying that one

00:02:54.590 - 00:03:10.860

of the reasons for the difficulty that exists between us between black people and white people eyes the lack of contact on the lack of an opportunity. Thio, try and test out and, uh, validate or invalidate certain kinds of expectations and assumptions we have about each other.

00:03:10.940 - 00:03:28.250

It appeared to me at least, that the Marine city on the recent housing development would be an attempt to do just that. And I would be very discouraged if this opportunity was taken away from black people and white people here in Marin County. Do you think

00:03:28.250 - 00:03:45.940

the crime situation in Marin City has become serious enough to become important? I think is extremely serious, and I think it's extremely urgent at this point. And in fact, I think that the whole status of Marine city, uh, from this point on is in serious jeopardy.

00:03:46.120 - 00:04:04.730

If something isn't done about a a great number of burglaries, assaults on and other law infractions that have taken place in run city over the past, Uh, four or five months and I think it has been increasingly, uh, serious. Let us say over the last two

00:04:04.730 - 00:04:23.510

months, Mr Peter Bear is a Marine county supervisor and his particularly responsibility includes Marine City. Mr. Bear, in the last two months, there has arisen the specter the possibility that maybe we are not ready for an experiment like Marin City. Has that occurred to you? This'll

00:04:23.520 - 00:04:38.490

has occurred to May, of course, but I deny it. I think we're not only ready for it. Uh, it really is not an experiment. It's part of the pattern of the future. If this country has a future, if we can't solve this problem, then the future

00:04:38.490 - 00:04:56.910

of this country is somewhat bleak. We must solve it. Do you think the solution to the immediate problem is, as one of the supervisors said, bringing in more gendarmes? Yes, I do. I really do because I don't believe that we have any community at all anywhere.

00:04:57.010 - 00:05:08.260

Unless we have a reasonable level of law enforcement, we must have law and order without it, A place is not really unpleasant to live in. It soon becomes impossible