Word: correntisti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor, he promised to clean up the permanent Neapolitan crime wave. "We must operate like surgeons," he told his police force, who promptly went to work rounding up hundreds of pickpockets. Plainclothesmen roamed the streets in squads of three to watch for second-story men and the light-footed correntisti, hit & run thieves who rely on their fleetness to escape the law. By summer's end, the mayor's campaign had paid off with hundreds of arrests and the recovery of millions of liras' worth of stolen property. But curing Naples of crime was a labor...
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