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...drive, the public adamantly refuses to report many crimes. According to the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, only about one-half of the rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries and major larcenies that are committed in the U.S. each year manage to get onto the police blotter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Conspiracy of Silence | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...wearing a long, extra long, shiny gray suit, white shirt, thin red tie, short hair, and, notable among his expressionless features, straight-staring, hard-looking eyes. While speaking, he lines up his green blotter with the bottom of his desk. He runs his thumb along the ridge to make sure the blotter edge are even. Then he places his square pen stand in the bottom right hand corner of the blotter. That leaves him, finally, with only my information sheet, with which he improvises, placing it on top or to the left of the pen stand, perfectly even with...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: So You Want To Make The Company Team, Son? | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...broadcasting. Hiring more Negroes, Johnson suggested, would be the first step to more penetrating and accurate coverage of the Negro community. And in coverage he included society, sports and civic reportage-"the same things you report from the white community. Don't get it all from the police blotter and the rioters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: PROGRAMMING | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...Minute Orgy. The best-authenticated-and most shocking-incident involved three young Negroes who were listed on the police blotter as "apparently shot to death in an exchange of gunfire." According to rumors buzzing through the Negro community, they had been murdered in cold blood. After a thoroughgoing investigation of the killings by Detroit News Reporter Joseph Strickland, city officials reluctantly rounded up a covey of witnesses who agreed that the trio had been shot without provocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: Ugly Aftermath | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...read the blotter in the lookingglass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Madness & Art | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

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