Word: burglarizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community leaders requested that all uniformed policemen be kept out of the area until the fever subsided, promising to do everything in their power to keep order. The police agreed, and the stratagem worked-for a while. Then a squad car squealed through the area in response to a burglar alarm, and the leaders' spell was broken; mayhem erupted for the second night. By midweek the police, now under the command of the department's chief troubleshooter, Captain James Holzman, were quick to disperse any sizable gathering. Miraculously, the reign of hate left only one Chicagoan...
...lower court was "too lenient" in merely ordering Providence's Grinnell Corp. to sell three subsidiaries after it was found guilty under the Sherman Act of monopolizing a segment of the burglar-alarm industry. In such cases, the court suggested, the remedy should include continuing Government surveillance of the companies to police compliance with the decree...
...crime detection. Moreover, no matter how far the Supreme Court goes, a large number of suspects will always be "gatemouths," compulsive confessors who need no encouragement to announce their guilt. "Human nature saves us," says one California prosecutor. "People talk anyway." In Seattle, for example, police insist that a burglar recently emerged from a skylight to be confronted by two waiting cops with drawn guns. Their first words: "You have the right to remain silent; you may consult an attorney before you make a statement; anything you say may be held against you." Astonished, the burglar admitted his guilt...
...brought by a man from the Audubon Society personally." During the Depression, Allen recommended setting up "a crumb line for midgets." His friendly enemy, Jack Benny, was not far from Twain's platform personality in a radio skit in which he was held up by a burglar: Thief: "Your money or your life." Benny (after a 30-second pause): "I'm thinking...
...Michigan man faces ten years for possessing burglary tools, but only five for using them. In North Carolina, a housebreaker who slips through a partly opened door can get ten years; a burglar who personally opens the same door another inch faces death. Even federal income tax raps seem out of whack: the maximum for falsifying a return is five years compared with one year for not filing...