Mr. LIEBELER. Have you at any time engaged in the practice of law here
in New York?
Mr. CARRO. Yes; I have. I have from the time I was admitted to practice
in February of 1956 been in the practice of law. Even at the present
time, although I am not, myself, actively engaged, I maintain a law
partnership where I practice.
Mr. LIEBELER. I understand that you were a probation officer, assigned
as a probation officer to the Domestic Relations Court.
Mr. CARRO. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Here in New York?
Mr. CARRO. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. At what time did you first become so assigned?
Mr. CARRO. Well, I worked with the Probation Department of the Domestic
Relations Court, Children's Division, from early 1952 'til 1954. I am
trying to recollect--from 1952 to 1954. I believe it was up to October
of 1954. It may have been around September of 1954. I'm not sure.
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you tell us, after 1954 did you hold any other public
office or any other----
Mr. CARRO. Oh, yes; I worked from 1949 to 1952 as a social investigator
for the city of New York. From 1952 to 1954 I was probation officer
of the Children's Court. Then, in 1954 for about a month or so I was
with the New York City Police Department as a probationary patrolman
and left to join the New York City Youth Board where I worked as a
social--I mean, a street club worker, senior worker and supervisor. I
worked with the New York Youth Board for 4 years with their council
of Social and Athletic Clubs, which is the common name given to the
"street gang project."
From 1958 to 1960 I was appointed to the State Commission Against
Discrimination. I worked with them as a field representative.
In 1960 to 1961 I worked for Mobilization for Youth, which is a
privately financed organization with Federal, State, and city funds
and private funds, developing a program for the youth, as an associate
director, and from 1961 to the present I have been an assistant to the
mayor of the city of New York.
Mr. LIEBELER. Does your job with the mayor at the present time relate
to youth, or more generally----
Mr. CARRO. Yes, in the sense that I have liaison responsibility with
the various social service agencies, which included the Youth Board,
the Department of Correction and City Commission on Human Rights. I
do a great deal of work with education and youth, and I am in charge
of the mayor's information center and the mobile unit, and although
that does not give me a direct relationship, the leaning of my own
background experience have been so that I have represented the mayor
on the President's Committee on Narcotics. I also have worked with the
Mobilization for Youth. I have sat in for the mayor on some of the
situations. I naturally tend to this kind of work.
Mr. LIEBELER. How did you first become interested in this? Was this
because of your work as a probation officer or the work you did prior
to that?
Mr. CARRO. Well, I think it was a combination of both. I grew up
in east Harlem, and I belonged to a number of organizations, and
actually I desired to get social work experience, and when I went
into the welfare department I found out that I would enjoy it much
better working with youth, and it was just through reading about it, I
happened to read--I heard that probation work with youth--than welfare
investigator, and while in probation I read about the youth board work,
and I liked the idea of a detached worker approach, working in the
streets, trying to reach the young people before they came to court
and had already committed a crime, and this is why I left the police
department, in the thought that I would like to do that.