Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth, the problem isn't quite as pressing as it was a few years ago. With crime rates dropping, so is juvenile crime. But felonies by kids had exploded over the previous 10 years, a legacy of the crack trade and armed gangs, so the recent decline is still a dip in a high plateau. From 1985 to 1995, juvenile arrests for violent crimes rose 67%. Perhaps a fifth of all violent crimes is the work of teens. "In America today, no population poses a greater threat to public safety than juvenile criminals," says Representative Bill McCollum, the Florida Republican...
...money they get for prevention programs, the House would require them to spend it all on law enforcement. The White House wants to require safety locks on guns to prevent kids from accidentally shooting other kids, a provision opposed by the National Rifle Association. "A juvenile-crime bill should crack down on gangs and guns," says senior adviser Rahm Emanuel. "If it doesn't do that, it is a juvenile-crime bill in name only...
...result. Last week Boston completed its second year without anyone under 17 being killed by a firearm. No other American city with a population over half a million can match this record. "Boston is the first city in the country to interrupt the cycle of violence that began with crack," concludes David Kennedy, senior researcher at Harvard's Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management...
...early '90s, Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan were war zones, teeming with guns. Since the Dorchester district court first began imposing curfews in 1991, the city's gangs can no longer hang with impunity on crack corners at midnight...
...Incoe Corp., who claims to have seen stills of the movie hanging in plastics-company offices all around the country. "It changed my life," says Vince Witherup, who, given his visceral enthusiasm for the ways in which industry R. and D. has benefited society (like supplying airlines with less crack-prone cups), seems to be only half-joking. Witherup, vice president for international sales and marketing at the Conair Group, a manufacturer of auxiliary equipment for the plastics industry, was a recent college graduate in 1967. Back then he already suspected that plastics was an "exciting" field--an impression that...