Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Campus officers may seem little more than glorified caretakers, but a 1965 vote of the Massachusetts legislature made them full policemen on University property. The distinction is more than semantic. Campus police have the power of arrest, and in the case of crime on the Harvard campus, they're expected to use it. The arrest process is dangerous for any officer, and the University Police deserve personal protection no less than their Cambridge counterparts...
...been too badly mashed for a definite comparison to be made went undenied. Whether the palm and thumbprints, thought to be the assassin's, were of any help was also kept secret. Other rumors died quickly, such as the one that had a Memphis police officer under secret arrest. Said Assistant Police Chief U. T. Bartholemew: "We're struggling...
...above all, there is white fear of Negro attacks. While the Negro arrest rate for murder is ten times that among whites, most of the violent crimes committed by Negroes are against other Negroes. Of 172 Washington, D.C., murders in a recent two-year period, for example, only twelve were interracial. Yet fear that Negro riots are leading to some ghastly racial holocaust is fueling a vast, scandalously uncontrolled traffic in firearms that has equipped one-half of U.S. homes with 50 million guns, largely for "self-defense." All this is rationalized by virtue of the Second Amendment "right...
...hands on hashish, let alone refined THC, considerable research must be done into the properties of all cannabis preparations before legalization of marijuana can be rationally considered. Action in this direction is obviously needed; like Prohibition's Volstead Act, current antimarijuana laws only result in the arrest of increasing thousands of young Americans each year without any deterrent effect. The use of marijuana is fast becoming a social phenomenon rather than a legal nuisance, but medical science and the law have not kept up with the change...
Writing in the A.B.A. Journal, Reardo explains that the standards "in no way inhibit public release by prosecutors or police of the full facts and the circumstances of an arrest or of a charge of crime." The main target of the standards is uncalled-for opinions such as that of a police officer who says a suspect is guilty. And the rules "do not restrict the news media from disseminating information developed through their own initiative or resources about crimes committed or about the administration of justice...