Word: crime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime rate in downtown Miami reached critical proportions last December. Robberies had almost doubled since the previous December. Police Chief Walter Headley was "fed up." The day after Christmas, he simply "called in all my commanding officers and told them to change some things. I said we should use dogs to accompany men on the beat. And I said I wanted the force in high-crime areas to carry shotguns. And I said I wanted to concentrate men in these high-crime areas, and that I wanted them to use the stop-and-frisk law more." Word of his crackdown...
...concentration" meant that 50 extra patrolmen, plus extra cars and motorcycles, were assigned to high-crime areas. Officers cruised in squads of three -in uniform, but without caps and in unmarked cars during the highest crime hours. But would that be enough? The answer was yes, at first. In January, the city's robbery rate dropped 45%, from 299 to 163. In the high-crime areas, the rate went down...
Against Abuse. There were problems, of course. High-crime areas in Miami mean Negro slums, and there were rumbles of discontent from militant Negroes who felt that the crackdown was discriminatory. But Negro merchants were generally pleased, and civil rights leaders worked to cool the hotter tempers. Said one of Chief Headley's top men: "If Miami Beach police crack down, do you say they are anti-Jewish?" Agrees Headley: "Any commanding officer would put his troops where the action...
...publicity he received. Headley does not entirely disagree, notes that the publicity may well have been an important factor in the initial month's drop. Indeed, he does not claim to have found the panacea to his city's and the nation's ever-increasing crime problem...
...urgently appeal to the world community, through the United Nations, to condemn, in view of their devastating effects on our people, the use of chemical warfare, napalm, and anti-personnel bombs. Finally, to prevent the ultimate crime against mankind, we ask the General Assembly to forbid the use of nuclear weapons by any party in this conflict...