A Law Enforcement Program for the State of Illinois

The primary responsibility for the enforcement of the criminal law in the United States has been assigned from the beginning to the agencies of local government-to the sheriff, the coroner, and the prosecuting attorney of the county and to the police departments maintained by our cities. During the last thirty years, however, public officials and private citizens in one state after another have come to realize that local government has failed to carry the burden of its responsibility in this respect. It has become increasingly apparent that the task of investigating crimes and of apprehending and prosecuting those persons who are guilty of criminal offenses must be shared in some large measure by the administrative agencies of the state governments themselves. In a few of the states-not more than twelve at the most

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