The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice was a group of 19 people appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 to study the American criminal justice system. Headed by the then-attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach, the commission is also known as Katzenbach Commission. Johnson assigned the group the task of fighting crime and repairing the American criminal justice system:
The Commission's final report was issued in 1967 has been described as "the most comprehensive evaluation of crime and crime control in the United States at the time". It laid out reorganization plans for police departments and suggested a range of reforms. Several of the Commission's findings related to the poor treatment of juvenile offenders.
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