Chuck Schumer: “What I was proposing--I think the present statutes are not working. I think they were poorly done. One way to get…”

“What I was proposing--I think the present statutes are not working. I think they were poorly done. One way to get enforcement, a good way that we have used in this body over and over again, which has not even been tried yet, is to say the State would not get crime money, whether it be for Cops on the Beat, for building prisons, for Byrne money for the DAs, if they don't notify the victims. The State would do much better than 40 percent. The reason this statute has not worked is no one has put any teeth into it. Why do we not put some teeth into it before jumping to the Constitution? I yield.”