Word: arsons
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...suburbanites settled in to split levels in New Jersey, Westchester, and Long Island, they left behind neighborhoods eventually inhabited by much poorer people. Falling rent forced landlords to neglect and then abandon buildings. Vandals ripped anything of value from the tenements or just torched them. Arson became a carefully planned and profitable activity as landlords burned their buildings to collect fire insurance, making the area charred and hollow...
Although I smell a stench coming from the trial of the Miami ex-policemen [May 26], I cannot condone or respect the acts of those individuals who have used it as an excuse for murder, arson and pillage. What is destroyed in the end is not inequality, discrimination or injustice, but everyone's rights and freedoms...
...Angeles, August 1965. A minor incident on a hot summer night turned into six days of rioting, arson, looting and sniping by an estimated 10,000 blacks. Of the 34 people killed, 28 were black. By the sixth day, 12,000 National Guardsmen and 2,500 city and county police were patrolling 46 square miles and had arrested 4,000 people. Some 200 buildings were completely destroyed, with property losses estimated at $40 million...
...less farfetched than it sounds. A few well-planted bombs all too easily close train and subway access; destruction of six major bridges and four tunnels completes the island's separation from the mainland. Meanwhile, a smoothly engineered blackout in the South Bronx results in looting and arson, distracting police from the citynapers' main operation...
...meals they were served behind bars. With all the city cells booked up, many of the fire fighters would have to await vacancies before they could serve their time. By week's end Kansas City had handled more than 265 alarms without loss of life, but arson in the city had risen alarmingly. At that point, a judge ordered the reinstatement of the 42 dismissed men; to universal relief, the fire fighters voted to return to work...