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...important things about police techniques have also been learned from L.E.A.A. and other research. Unfortunately most of the findings have tended to show what does not work. Squad-car cruising, for example, was long thought critical to crime control; then a 1974 study in Kansas City, Mo., showed little crime variation no matter how few or many cruisers were patrolling test areas. Looking at the vast array of police experimentation, the L.E.A.A.'S Caplan says, "There have been no breakthroughs, and none are on the horizon...
...quasi right to have their offenses against the law extenuated, or even to have them regarded as political acts reflecting a morality 'higher' than obedience to the law." Says Gerald Caplan, director of the research branch of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration: "Is the black fellow who steals a car a victim of society or its enemy? Is Spiro Agnew a political victim or a predator on society? People have varying answers...
...system, Bartender laughs and responds, "I wish I were still a juvenile." Now that he is 19 and for the first time answerable for his crimes as an adult, Bartender sometimes talks about quitting the Piru. "This year I have a job. Next year I'll have a car and a pad." But in the next breath, he talks of his loyalty to the gang, the fact that if he were to quit, "there's more chance of those left getting downed [killed] quick. Besides, I live in Crip neighborhood-I'd still get messed with when...
After serving eleven years, MacEwen was given a three-day furlough. "I visited some places I thought I was familiar with, but they had changed so much that when I got out of my car, I was frightened. I couldn't stay. Then in my mother's house, I was having what I thought was a normal conversation, and it seemed like the room got smaller and smaller and I was suffocating...
Last week the sleepy-eyed, 70-year-old Fukuda unveiled a modest package of reflationary measures designed to mollify his critics. Key elements: $1.3 billion in new housing loans, $14.5 billion in public works projects, easier terms on car installment payments, and a pledge to award more government contracts to small companies. Combined with a slightly easier monetary policy, the measures should be enough to help trigger a modest recovery during the second half of the year (production rates already are inching up, and jobless rates down). But they are hardly sufficient to bring back the halcyon era of double...