Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carry out its threat of exposure. The marriage of one victim who refused to be intimidated was wrecked when the gang informed his wife; an Army officer committed suicide rather than submit to pressure. One alleged shakeman awaiting trial, a former Chicago detective, had authentic Chicago police badges, arrest warrants, and even extradition papers in his possession when the FBI arrested him in June. Yet toy-store badges could be, and sometimes were, used just as effectively as real badges. Apparently the victims were so racked by feelings of guilt that few of them had enough self-possession to challenge...
...City of immigrant parents, he worked his way through college (Niagara University) and law school as a lifeguard and merchant seaman. As a lawyer, he got some national attention for his conscientious - and ultimately successful - defense of Christopher Balestrero, a musician who was the victim of a mistaken-identity arrest...
...Perth Amboy, N.J. (pop. 39,000), a police arrest was followed by four nights of disquiet among the city's 7,000 Puerto Ricans, during which police claimed to have been attacked with rocks, bottles and Molotov cocktails. A Puerto Rican spokesman charged, however, that "it was the police who rioted" by seizing innocent people in the streets. Either way, city officials promised to consider rescinding an antiloitering ordinance that many Puerto Ricans resented...
...mental illness depends on the confidence of the patient in the therapist. If doctors were expected by the public and their patients to report every threatening remark, they would soon have few patients. Moreover, as New York's Deputy Police Commissioner Sylvan Fox noted last week, "we can't arrest people because they are ill." Adds New Jersey Psychiatrist Henry A. Davidson: "We are in a situation now where there is enormous pressure for civil rights. The idea of locking someone up on the basis of a psychiatrist's opinion that he might in the future be violent could...
...Ministry for the Protection of Public Peace," which will nationalize the country's sorely beset police forces. While sharply boosting police powers and urging more prowl cars, the Kremlin freed Russians of any liability for injury done to a suspect in making a citizen's arrest...