Word: assaults
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Exhibit A for supporters of the new policing is New York City, where major crime--murder, rape, robbery, auto theft, grand larceny, assault and burglary--is in something like statistical free fall, dropping 17.5% last year. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and his police commissioner, William Bratton, both insist that the reason is their devotion to new ways of doing police business. John DiIulio Jr., a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, says that since the mid-'80s top brass who embrace a similar shift in philosophy have risen to key positions in cities all around the country...
...sense," the 30-second, televised spot informs Iowa voters. The Indiana senator, who says he believes in Americans' rights to own a gun "for self-protection, to hunt and to collect," stresses that he was the only member of Congress running for the nomination to have opposed the 1994 assault weapons ban vetoed by President Clinton. The ad concludes: "There is no right to sweep a playground with an assault weapon...
...FACTS ARE THESE: ON SEPT. 10 NEbraska running back Lawrence Phillips was arrested for trespass and assault after he burst into a former girlfriend's apartment at 4:30 a.m., knocked her to the floor, dragged her down three flights of stairs and slammed her head into a mailbox...
...those facts and those stats was all too apparent last week in Tempe, Arizona, where the Cornhuskers were preparing to defend their national title against Florida in the Jan. 2 Fiesta Bowl. Having served no jail time and only a six-game suspension after pleading no contest to the assault charges, Phillips was again playing in the national championship game as the starting back--and as a self-anointed victim. At a crowded news conference on Thursday, Phillips said, "I don't think people will ever look at me the same." And Nebraska center Aaron Graham defended his teammate, saying...
...more statistic: in the past three years alone, the structure of Nebraska football has housed six players who have faced charges for crimes ranging from sexual assault to attempted second-degree murder. None of them has served time in jail...