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— 10— ranged from a few days to 10 weeks or more. In aiddi-- tion, it conducted many law enforcement conferences— 1.126 in the last five years. These conferences were attended by nearly 100,000 people and nearly 40,000 agencies were involved. It is this positive approach to law enforcement, which the FBI and an increasing number of local authorities have shown, that will enable the police of the country to work and live under the Constitution of the United States and will afford all citizens, no matter how low their rank, a feeling of security. Oregon has also been among the leaders in modern law enforcement techniques. So has Berkeley, California, where law enforcement officers have a salary range that not many elsewhere cnjoy. : Berkeley has made an extensive effort to educate its policemen in legal procedures. not with the idea of “get- ting around” court decisions, but with the view of work- ing within the rules of law. These efforts have paid rich dividends; an examination of Berkeley's criminal statis- tics shows that a very smal! percentage indeed of arrests results in exclusion of evidence legally obtained. All of us need re-edueation in the Bill of Rights. Students need exposure to it at an early age. News- = paper editors need to understand its history, for their editorials often show glaring deficiences in knowledge of the background and function of this American Magna Carta. Journalists are often so ignorant of the Bill of Rights that at press conferences their questions concern- ing court decisions are frequently unintelligible. The public is sometimes so unaware of the basic guarantees that they think the judicial decision turns on whether the judge is “soft” on criminals or made of sterner stuff. ‘Education tn the Bill of Rights therefore is one of the great challenges of our time.