Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heat was oppressive; the area was a slum; the killers had contacts with a marijuana salesman; they were all Puerto Rican immigrants; the two leaders had stepparents, and one lived with a sister whose husband had deserted her. Yet the city scoffed at the "theory that blames juvenile crime primarily on environment...
...their greatest value, says Inspector Leo T. Kelly, is the "deterrent effect" of their mere presence on the streets. In the three years since the city's K-9 Corps got started-with two dogs-Baltimore has been one of the few big cities in the U.S. where crime rates have dropped...
Last week, plagued by upsurging crime rates, the District of Columbia decided to imitate Neighbor Baltimore and set up a police-dog corps. As in Baltimore, the dogs will be male German shepherds, trained by expert handlers, and each dog will be assigned to a particular patrolman, working only with him. Eventually, said District Commissioner Robert E. McLaughlin, the police department hopes to have 80 or 100 dogs on duty in the nation's capital...
Next day, when the full trial finally got under way, Podola coolly persisted in his disclaimer: "I do not remember the crime for which I stand accused ... I am unable to answer the charges." The jury spent only 38 minutes in arriving at a verdict of guilty. Covering his wig with the dread black cap, Judge Edmund Davies slowly told Podola: "You have been convicted on evidence of the most compelling character and certainty of the capital murder* of a police officer by shooting him down in the prime of his manhood. For that foul and terrible deed...
...Tokyo officialdom, Japan's 800,000 "resident Koreans" have long been unwelcome guests who contribute more than their share to Japanese crime and unemployment statistics. But to Soren, the Red-lining General Federation of Korean Residents in Japan, the Koreans are unwilling exiles. Loudly insisting that at least 120,000 of the Koreans in Japan yearn to go to Communist North Korea, Soren has repeatedly demanded mass repatriation as "a basic human right." Last February, after the North Korean government grandly chimed in with an offer to take in all of Japan's Korean residents at once...