Word: arresting
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...much for protect and serve. The HUPD, whose salaries I subsidize, arrest homeless people for taking cans out of dumpsters. They participate in elaborate, risky drug stings with other local police departments. They break up perfectly good, totally harmless parties on a whim. They are even alleged to racially harass students and each other, and then refuse to investigate that properly...
...surrounded himself with a group of thuggish henchmen who specialized in murder and mayhem rather than the silkier arts of persuasion and blackmail once favored by the Mafia. Unlike tradition-bound gangsters who obeyed the vow of silence when arrested, some of these lieutenants cut deals with the law. Over the past year, 270 so-called pentiti provided unprecedented details of the Mob's workings and helped investigators tighten the net around its chief. According to some sources, the tip that led to Riina's arrest came from at least one such stool pigeon who put more faith...
...news of Riina's arrest spread through Palermo last week, some residents expressed jubilation, but most had nothing to say. "It's none of my business," grunted a young man on a motorcycle. "Knowing too much about that stuff is dangerous." It will remain so, even with Riina behind bars. At least five members of the Cupola are still at large. According to some sources, they long ago sketched out an agreement on how to divide the shepherd's fields and flock...
William Bentinck-Smith '37, an editor and administrator who served Harvard in a wide range of capacities over many years, died of cardiac arrest Tuesday in Ayer, Mass...
Kiril Taranovsky, professor emeritus of Slavic languages and a renowned scholar of Slavic languages and Russian poetry, died of cardiac arrest Monday in his home in Arlington, Mass...