Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...described the poverty-stricken-dull and depressed. We all looked at Jimmy in helpless despair. We knew that in all likelihood, he would either become depressed and his IQ would gradually go down to a dull level, or he would use his brains for crime or some other sociopathic activity. The point of this is not the trouble Jimmy will eventually cost this nation but the cost in terms of the loss. We in this nation cannot afford such waste. We are all the poorer because we have lost that little boy. To me, the cost of poverty is that...
...Washingtonians were nervous about the Poor People's Campaign, they were more apprehensive over a major crime wave in the capital. Even before the upheaval that followed the slaying of Martin Luther King, the city occupied a high standing in all the indexes of violence. Among U.S. cities of 500,000 to 1,000,000 population, Washington ranks first in robberies per 1,000 people, second in murders, aggravated assaults and housebreaking, third in total offenses, fifth in larceny and auto theft, ninth in rape. Since two-thirds of Washington's 849,000 people are black, and often...
Since the assassination riots, according to the city's public safety director, Patrick Murphy, crime is up 15%. In the worst slums, cowed businessmen reported a rash of burglaries, fires and extortionist threats. Four shopkeepers were murdered in three weeks. Most serious of all was the situation on the city's buses. Two weeks ago, Bus Driver John Talley was shot and killed by a band of Negro youths, climaxing a wave of nearly 250 holdups so far this year...
...sentence resulted from a swing that Brown took last summer from New York to New Orleans and back again-toting a carbine. Maryland had just accused him of inciting a riot, and Brown was charged again under a rarely used U.S. law making it a crime to carry firearms across state lines while under indictment. In New Orleans federal court, a jury of three white men and nine women (six of them white) found him guilty for packing the gun back to New York but guiltless for taking it to New Orleans in the first place because...
...first week in office reflected a quiet but forceful style developed during a 35-year political career. He drew up an emergency program for tornado relief, stopped all construction of state buildings to fight an estimated $170,500,000 revenue shortage, helped launch a campaign to fight crime, poverty and urban blight, and fashioned such cordial ties with the state senate that its Republican majority leader praised Shapiro's "practical, realistic way of handling things...