Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State of Siege. Every major city is now prepared to deal with a summer of violence. The state of siege that results from crime and assault is even more widespread and lasts year round, from January to December. The President's Commission on Law Enforcement found last year that one out of every three Americans is afraid to walk alone in his own neighborhood after dark...
...first time since it began publishing 33 years ago, the Gallup poll reports that crime is the nation's No. 1 domestic concern. And "crime in the streets"?a catchall phrase for everything from muggings to insurrections?may well have displaced Viet Nam as the prime issue in the presidential campaign. The FBI reckons that urban crime jumped 88% in the first seven years of the decade?and 17% over 1967 in the first three months of 1968. Granting a sizable margin of inaccuracy in reporting, the figures are probably a fair approximation of the facts. In response...
...forward, there have been two steps backward in the growth of slum populations; for every advance in understanding of minorities, there have been two retreats in growing ghetto resentment and despair. Widespread corruption is by no means a thing of the past. A study prepared for the President's crime commission, leaked this month, claimed that in ghetto areas of three cities?Chicago, Boston and Washington?27% of the police regularly committed offenses that would normally be classed as felonies or misdemeanors. Minor shakedowns for meals, drinks and small favors were so common as not to be included. Third degrees...
...unlikely that the bill will reach the Senate floor, at least in a session when most politicians are plumping for stiffer crime controls to get votes. It is just this connection between crime and death sentences that the testimony sought to discredit. After Delaware, for example, reinstated capital punishment in 1961, there was an increase rather than a decrease in the number of murders. The five states with the highest murder rates-Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and Mississippi -also were among the leaders in executions between...
...York City Commissioner of Licenses as well as from the pulpit of his red brick church. He helped prod New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia into closing down the strip joints and driving their operators out of town. For his campaign against "coddlers" of crime, he won plaudits from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. His activities brought fame to his church (which sometimes attracted as many as 25,000 worshipers in a day) and celebrity status to its pastor. One day, emerging from a "skin-movie" house, where he had gone to administer last rites to a stricken...