Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Constables are also in cahoots with some magistrates to use the courts as a debt-collection agency. To help constables rake in commissions as high as 50%, for example, such magistrates issue arrest warrants for "civil debt"-a result-getter that has been illegal in Pennsylvania since 1842. As soon as he took office in 1961, Magistrate Harry C. Schwartz incorporated the Active Collection Agency with his wife as president and Constable Abraham Siegel as treasurer. Magistrate Schwartz openly welcomes A.C.A. cases-and shares his wife's 50% split of the profits...
...Lake. The final disaster came this month, when three drunken Simbas began brawling in Cairo's residential Zamalek district. Before the battle ended, two of them had been shot dead. The surviving Simba resisted arrest on the grounds that "I am a general." That was too much for even Nasser, whose security police had been urging him for months to get rid of the troublesome Congolese. He ordered remaining Simbas rounded up, then packed them aboard a government airliner and shipped them out of Egypt. When last seen, they were headed for Kigoma, the Tanzanian railhead on Lake Tanganyika...
...fitness of a fairy tale, and that, in effect, is what The Knack is. It's theme is the old Grimm Brother favorite of feeling's triumph over unfeeling, innocence's defeat of evil. Would a rake like Tolen be likely to harbor a secret dread of unjust arrest for rape? Well, no, but we accept his breakdown because we are more interested in seeing that he gets his comcuppance than in justifying it psychologically. And surely our wishes rather than our reallife expectations are satisfied by the simultaneous flowering of the hero and deflowering of the heroine...
...local beauty-shop operator, is paid from the proceeds of fines. Some have been known to make $20,000 a year dispensing justice. The laws themselves are often unfair-or unenforceable. Speed limits that are set too low allow an officer to pick and choose when he should arrest someone. One of the greatest bluffs in U.S. traffic law is the New York City parking ordinance. Stern-looking green tickets, carrying a $15 fine, are issued by the hip-pocketful every day. At the moment, there are more than 900,000 outstanding tickets that have not been paid. The reason...
Swatting a Gnat. So far, the main drawback is the legal requirement of a judge-signed warrant for each scofflaw. In a big city, no prowl car can possibly lug enough warrants. But police need no warrant to arrest anyone whom they reasonably believe to have committed a felony...