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...small arrests for such crimes as aggressive panhandling and minor theft, police believe, that have lowered New York to 63rd in homicides per 100,000 people. One reason: the greater vigilance raises everyone?s awareness that police are on the lookout for lawbreakers. But New York officials see another benefit: when people are arrested for relatively minor offenses, police often discover concealed weapons. Police say that this encourages criminals to leave guns at home, and as a result, shootings are down more than 50 percent in the past three years...
...small arrests for such crimes as aggressive panhandling and minor theft, police believe, that have lowered New York to 63rd in homicides per 100,000 people. One reason: the greater vigilance raises everyone?s awareness that police are on the lookout for lawbreakers. But New York officials see another benefit: when people are arrested for relatively minor offenses, police often discover concealed weapons. Police say that this encourages criminals to leave guns at home, and as a result, shootings are down more than 50 percent in the past three years...
...racist entitled to as fair a trial as a pornographer? The good people of Mississippi--all right, the bad white people--gave Byron De La Beckwith every benefit of the doubt in his 1964 trials for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Two hung juries and a quarter- century later, a Jackson prosecutor (Alec Baldwin, who's good in a tough role) reopens the case, goaded by Evers' widow Myrlie (Whoopi Goldberg). He has a chance: this time the gabby, unrepentant Beckwith (James Woods) is facing a jury that is largely black...
...coming when, if methods for preserving youth do become practical, they will be the exclusive domain of the megarich and powerful. A few lucky people will be given a chance to live more than one century, but the rest of us will experience, I fear, little or no benefit. I'd love to be proved wrong, but "health equals wealth" certainly seems to be the trend in America just now. DARRELL LELAND Albuquerque, New Mexico Via E-mail...
...words of the songs they listened to had no effect on the fervor of the movement to protect impressionable teenagers from rock lyrics. The traditional homework dialogues between a teenager in his room and a parent at the bottom of the stairs will probably just continue without benefit of musical accompaniment...