Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, he said: "Agents are working around the clock pursuing every lead. Physical evidence is very substantial. While it remains impossible to predict when the killer will be arrested, I remain hopeful it will be soon." If, indeed, several persons plotted King's death, chances of solving the crime are enhanced simply because prospects of a blunder multiply. And one of them might be tempted to try to collect the $100,000 reward for the triggerman...
Paradoxically, the first fact to be faced is a happy one: there is much evidence suggesting that violent crime in the U.S. has-at least until recently-not been increasing relative to the population. Although the FBI reports a 35% total increase during the 1960s, many experts argue that this figure overlooks population growth, improved police statistics and the new willingness of the poor to report crimes that used to go unrecorded. On the whole, Americans are now more apt to settle their arguments through legal redress, or at least nonviolent cunning, rather than with fists, knives and guns. Organized...
Today's fear of violence is rightly aimed at the terrifying anonymity of the big cities-of which 26, containing less than one-fifth of the U.S. population, account for more than half of all violent crimes. But this fear can be localized: violence is overwhelmingly a ghetto phenomenon; it is the slum dweller who suffers most and cries out for better police protection. In Atlanta, for example, the violent-crime rate in neighborhoods with incomes below $3,000 is eight times that among $9,000-income families...
More Americans than ever are turning on with marijuana. Most of them are under 21, but an astonishing number of respectable adult citizens are also using "sticks" or "joints" or "grass." Obviously no one knows the total, since possession of a single cigarette is a crime. But Commissioner James L. Goddard of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cites estimates that as many as 20 million Americans may have used marijuana at one time, while 400,000 some say as many as 3,000,000-may now be smoking it regularly...
Writing in the A.B.A. Journal, Reardo explains that the standards "in no way inhibit public release by prosecutors or police of the full facts and the circumstances of an arrest or of a charge of crime." The main target of the standards is uncalled-for opinions such as that of a police officer who says a suspect is guilty. And the rules "do not restrict the news media from disseminating information developed through their own initiative or resources about crimes committed or about the administration of justice...