Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other provisions of the bill were closer to what the President requested in 1967, when he called on Congress to strike a blow against crime in America. Among these: $400 million for assistance to state and local police in the next two fiscal years-almost 10% of the total amount now spent on all aspects of law enforcement...
...authorizing funds to improve state and city agencies, said Johnson, the bill "responds to one of the most urgent problems in America today-the problem of fighting crime in the local neighborhood and on the city street...
Doctors, lawyers and enlightened laymen have long agreed that alcoholism is a disease, not a crime. And they have taken for granted that when the right case came along, a liberal and enlightened Supreme Court would strike down the practice of punishing drunks merely for being intoxicated in a public place. So the court surprised just about everyone last week when it upheld by a 5-to-4 vote the conviction of Leroy Powell, an Austin, Texas, bootblack who has been found guilty more than 100 times of public drunkenness...
Exempting drunks from punishment, added Justice Hugo Black in a concurring opinion, "would be to require recognition of 'irresistible impulse' as a complete defense to any crime." And that, said Black, would be more than the court should countenance...
...dries out long enough to convince the court that he could not stop himself from getting drunk in a public instead of a private place will have done his fellow topers a signal service. For he may well find five Justices willing to agree that alcoholism is no crime...