Word: burglars
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President Bok called the quick fund raising testimony to a "virtuous man" and said Harvard had done something shape Halberstam, who was killed when he surprised a burglar late last fall...
...scholarship, which will pay for four years of education for one needy student in every class, is in memory of Michael J. Halberstam '53, who was killed in his house last December by a burglar...
...arming themselves with guns as though they still lived in frontier days. "It's the Matt Dillon syndrome," says Jack Wright Jr., a criminologist at Loyola University in New Orleans. "People believe the police can't protect them." They are buying guard dogs and supplies of Mace. Locksmiths and burglar-alarm businesses are flourishing, as are classes in karate and target shooting. Banks have long waiting lists for vacated safety-deposit boxes. Many city sidewalks are a muggers' mecca at night; the elderly dread walking anywhere, even in broadest daylight. The fear of street crime is changing the way America...
...offenders in Washington, D.C., showed that 7% of the criminals arrested in a 4½-year period had been apprehended four times-and this 7% accounted for 24% of all the serious crimes considered solved in those years. In one startling example, in suburban Evanston, Ill., the arrest of one burglar cleared up 163 break-ins. Says Evanston Police Chief William McHugh: "Eighteen hundred burglaries doesn't mean we had 1,800 burglars." The fact that the repeaters are released to strike again and again says a lot about the nation's system of criminal justice (see following story...
Returning from evening church services with his wife, Mary, 65, he surprised a burglar in their home. Both Hiborns were stabbed three times. No arrest...