Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crime: the Rate...
Your article listing certain major cities in the U.S., along with composite crime rate statistics, indicated the data were from ''the FBI list of felony rates in U.S. cities." The FBI has not published any tabulation of crime rates for individual cities. The only thing we show in the Uniform Crime Reports bulletins, for the cities that you listed, is the total number of offenses of each individual classification reported by the police agency represented. We do not convert those figures into terms of the number of offenses per unit of population for individual cities...
Another defect involves the use of 1950 census figures in calculating current crime rates for individual cities, which distorts the picture to the extent that the population of those cities has changed since 1950. Also, in calculating the rates, you grouped together in one figure all reported offenses giving, in effect, equal weight statistically to larceny and murder, and larceny offenses generally comprise over half of the total...
Berlin. As a young man, Voigt forged 300 marks worth of postal money orders to buy trinkets for his girl, and got a 15-year sentence for the crime. Once out of stir, he could not get a job without papers, and could not get papers without a job. Back in the jug he went, this time for breaking into a police station to try to forge a passport for himself...
...best two stories are by Tibor Dery. and his theme is the facelessness of oppression in totalitarian life. In Love, the guards at a Budapest prison inexplicably turn loose one "B," who has been in prison for seven years. But his crime is not known (it was "political"). On his discharge papers the line that should explain the reason for his release is left blank. How common such cases are in Hungary is made clear by the taxi driver who refuses to take the ex-prisoner's tip, the neighbor woman who offers him food and comfort. And when...