Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonconspiratorial passengers into their homes, were hurt when Maria Cristina and her troupe refused their hospitality and elected to stay in the plane. The last straw came when the island's tiny police force politely informed the conspirators that it was against the law to arrest the police chief or capture public buildings. Dismayed, the invaders finally gave themselves up and accepted beds in Port Stanley homes...
...saying, he declared the ill-fated conspirators under arrest, sent a ship to pick up the DC-4's stranded passengers. There was no need to apologize to the residents of the Falkland Islands: the at tempted invasion had given them something to talk about for years to come...
Significant Silence. In a 226-page report based on a study of crime reporting in cities from Newark to San Francisco, the committee concludes that the "preponderance of potentially prejudicial material" emanates from lawyers and law-enforcement agencies between arrest and trial. Wherever police and prosecutors have stopped talking, there has been a "significant decline" in overblown news stories-without any impairment of the vital role of the press in exposing crime and prodding lax law enforcement...
...first place, we know very little -- much less than most people think and newspaper stories would suggest -- about the volume, kinds and effects of crime and who the perpetrators and the victims are. Over many years the FBI has painstakingly developed a reporting system based on arrest and offense figures furnished by local police agencies, which is our only authoritative source of national crime data...
...relatively lenient sentences or probation, and to prosecute a few cases to the limit. While we are all warmed by the glow of Perry Mason's courtroom brilliance, it is, in fact, this informal and invisible negotiating and adjusting process -- and even more invisible police decision on whether to arrest in the first place -- that constitutes the great bulk of the administration of justice in this country. There are virtually no rules or guidelines governing the decisions made in the more than 90% of the cases which do not get tired but which involve liberty or imprisonment for millions...