Word: copse
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SILBERMAN'S BOOK is most useful in debunking already proposed panaceas. Put more cops on the street, improve telecommunications, repeal the "exclusionary rule" developed by the Warren Court, stifle corruption, and you will reduce crime--so goes the litany on police reform. Silberman rejects these nostrums, demonstrates their inefficacy, and...
"We're not going to be shit on by anybody," he promises them and he looks like he means it. "You know what will happen if the Red Line is extended only as far as Alewife?" he asks. They shake their heads, more in nervousness than in ignorance. "You know...
Chafin has also instituted a new "next-day" follow up program on larcenies. The crime prevention unit of the police conducts an awareness program to "correct risk situations" at the scene of the larceny the day after the incident. The awareness program operates at the same time the Criminal Investigation...
Newton vehemently denies any involvement in these shootings. Sitting in a visiting room on the tenth floor of the Alameda County courthouse, wearing white prison overalls, he admitted in an interview with TIME that the attacks "might have been the result of overzealous party members," but he quickly added, "There...
Silberman is left with the unconsoling conclusion that until blacks and the poor are brought into society's mainstream, there is not a great deal courts and cops can do to cut down on crime. He finds a few examples of the poor taking a stake in improving their own...