Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than $1 million in jewels from world-famous Tiffany's last Sunday, police sources confirmed to TIME New York correspondent Massimo Calabresi. They expect to recover some or all of the precious purloined stones. Investigators were acting on search warrants for an undisclosed location this afternoon, and expected to arrest one or more suspects tonight. The tipster's motive for coming forward: a $50,000 reward from Tiffany's and its insurers for information on the theft...
...lost on Castro. Unleashing refugees has proved an effective attention getter for him in the past, and he has been disappointed that a Democratic Administration in Washington has not proved more receptive to dealing with him. So Castro let it be known that his police would no longer arrest or even try to stop Cubans attempting to flee by makeshift boat or raft. Ergo, two problems solved at once: angry Cubans were distracted from turning their despair against Fidel, and he certainly got Washington's attention...
...protesting the arrest of an opposition leader jailed for inciting riots, Tutsi youths in Bujumbura organized a general strike and set up barricades of burning tires to prevent people from going to work. Quiet returned to the city a few days later but was quickly broken when grenades were lobbed into crowds. Hutu extremist groups, newly armed with Rwandan weapons coming into Burundi from Zaire, have reorganized to mount counterattacks...
Serious crime fighting emphasizes the certainty of capture. Criminals calculate the odds of apprehension and rightly conclude that for the most part, crime pays. As recently as a decade ago, arrest rates for homicide exceeded 95%, even in the big cities. They're now down to 50%. The robbery arrest rate is down to 24%; it's 13% for burglaries. Of all the reasons advanced for these depressing statistics, the most telling is this: there are currently 3.3 violent crimes committed for every police officer, exactly the opposite of the ratio 25 years ago. Whatever the value of prevention programs...
...officer making the arrest called Judge AnnGibbons, who issued an emergency 209A restrainingorder, Johnson said...