The purpose of an effective crime bill is to teach criminals that crime does not pay. This bill teaches that crime does pay for the jurisdictions of certain Democratic Senators and big city mayors. The bill authorizes approximately $9 billion of new social-welfare spending viewed as crime prevention, but which amounts to nothing more than "political pork." The money would go to support programs that deal with education and self-esteem development, new Federal job training programs, child-centered activities, public housing, inner-city youth activity programs, urban parks and recreation, school programs, youth life-skills programs, midnight basketball leagues, prison drug treatment programs, and discretionary funds for mayors to spend for virtually any purpose tangentially related to crime. Congressional liberals have gotten their wish-list of failed social welfare initiatives and lumped them together under the banner of crime prevention. Even the approximately $22 billion spent on police and prisons is of dubious merit. The Federal Government should not be in the business of building prisons for the States and paying for police in cities. The taxpayers of States and cities should fund these crime-control initiatives. 3 tables