Word: arrests
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...airline pirates. More elaborate is a recommendation to construct a bogus airport south of Miami to resemble Havana's José Martí International. Plastered with Bienvenido a la Habana signs and staffed by Cuban refugees, the airfield presumably would fool skyjackers long enough to ensure their arrest upon landing...
Because the bail system discriminates against the poor, Italy, Denmark and Sweden do not employ it. In all three nations, however, magistrates have the power to detain a man after his arrest. In Italy, lawyers have protested that too many persons are imprisoned for long periods and, if they are later declared innocent, may not recover damages for false imprisonment. Even in Britain, where a man may obtain his release by merely promising to pay bail, judges have broad power to lock up persons whom they consider dangerous. That such a system can be abused has been dramatically demonstrated...
...reason for the problem is crowded court calendars. In the District of Columbia, for example, it takes at least ten months to bring a man to trial. And the longer the accused is free, the stronger the chance that he will be arrested again. Senator Ervin has argued that if the time between arrest and trial lasted only from six to eight weeks, there would be no clamor for preventive detention. Even those who favor the idea believe a man should be detained for only a limited time-which would mean that the courts would have to provide quicker trials...
While always a major factor, today, the report noted, "our young account for a greater proportion of crime than the increase in their numbers alone can explain." Since 1960, the population of juveniles has risen 22%; meanwhile, their arrest rate for violent offenses has doubled. Despite its findings, the commission drew fatuous hope from a familiar statistic: "Despite the recent trends, 99% of the population do not engage in crimes of violence...
...case is not a hypothetical, law-school exercise. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court was sharply divided on the question. Overturning the 1965 gambling conviction of William Spinelli, a 5-to-3 majority ruled that the U.S. Commissioner who issued the search warrant that led to Spinelli's arrest did not have "probable cause" to do so. The warrant, said the court, should have contained both more detail on what led the informant to conclude that the phones were for bet taking, and some support for the FBI claim that the informant's word could be trusted...