Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only in supervisory skills, but also in new crime prevention and protection techniques. For the first time since its existence, the police department is providing its officers with the opportunity to develop their skills through attendance at one-week course programs in the Boston area. Drug education and enforcement, arson investigation, rape victimology and crime scene search are just a few of the areas in which officers have received instruction over the last few months, and Chafin expects the training program to be ongoing...
Bellotti, despite the debits of the PCM-MBM affair, has, in turn, some considerable credits. His effort in consumer protection have helped thousands throughout Massachusetts. Bellotti indicted members of a huge arson ring and 26 politically connected corporations and individuals for stealing state vocational education funds. He led 46 states in obtaining a $40 million settlement against General Motors for switching engines on unsuspecting buyers...
Meantime, Badillo estimates the Puerto Rican school-dropout rate at 85%. Discouraged youngsters are almost natural prospects for membership in the city's underclass, quickly contributing to the ghetto plagues of violent crime, drug use and arson. Says one Lower East Side youngster: "A lot of kids want an education to get out of here. But in order to survive, they're dealing [drugs]. Kids ten and eleven make more money than their old man in the factory." Says another: "I saw some pictures of this place 20 years ago, and it had benches and trees. We took...
...following week, police raided an apartment stocked with guns, ammunition and 30 kg of explosives. They also found evidence that led to the arrests of Sylvia Herzinger, 33, and Leila Bocook, 25, both suspected of belonging to the Revolutionary Cell, a group responsible for a rash of bombings and arson in Frankfurt, Mainz and Wiesbaden...
...things were going before [martial law], they [his opponents] didn't have to resort to that. They could have taken over the country-and I don't mean slowly. But if that is not possible for them, then they will resort to certain acts of sabotage and arson...