Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public, understandably worried by warnings of the increasing dangers from crime, focuses on the issues and incidents which make good newspaper copy or television footage -- the brutal or daring crime; riots; capital punishment; the Supreme Court vs. the police; the skillful duel between counsel in the trial of the big case; the parole board's release of a notorious sex offender. Public officials who work in the system too often lack the knowledge and perspective to be sufficiently self-analytical or radical in their thinking about what they do in the name of administering justice. And, with some notable exceptions...
...most important intangible of all however, is the Dodgers' great performance under pressure. They triumphed in a brutal pennant fight (though they only played .500 ball over the final two weeks, the Orioles played at a .400 clip and have less momentum), and have won three of three World Series since leaving Brookiyn...
...enforce the white man's law ("There are too many instances where police here have been trying to teach manners instead of enforce the law," maintains one Negro lawyer). It is, as much as anything, that police behavior can be utterly capricious, that an officer can be brutal or civil, that it is impossible to predict which one he will be, that to his superiors, it is apparently all the same. In Birmingham, moreover, the predilection has too often been towards brutality; Negroes no longer wish to take chances...
...when the nation was appalled by the brutal treatment of Negro demonstrators at the hands of white Southern police, the Senate for the first time invoked cloture to pass a civil rights bill. Again in 1965, a Senate filibuster was choked off, and the voting rights bill became law. This year the climate has changed. Against the backdrop of violence that has engulfed Negro slums from Cleveland to Atlanta, many Americans are troubled by the implications of the black-power movement. Their mood is not, to say the least, strongly sympathetic to a civil rights bill that in some ways...
...caught, the refugees often face brutal treatment at the hands of border guards. But not always. Take the skipper of a Rumanian patrol boat who recently intercepted a family of five that was trying to row across the Black Sea to Turkey. The skipper ordered the runaway family into the cutter, ordered his seamen into the rowboat, and the six roared off together toward the Turkish horizon-and freedom...