Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practice cut across racial lines, ethnic lines, age lines, religious lines. The only thing these women had in common was that they were women." In fact, one female plaintiff was at the police station accompanying a male friend who had been arrested. Although she was never charged with a crime, she was stripped and searched...
...neck," Alkek avoided criminal charges by cooperating with the authorities and pleading a weak heart (a condition that did not prevent a dove-hunting trip in Mexico). Alkek admitted knowing about and not reporting the fraud and destroying a letter that would have documented the crime. After plea bargaining, he was given only a three-year suspended sentence and ordered to refund $3.2 million of his excessive profits. The refunds will probably be deductible from his income taxes, say IRS authorities...
Thus disputes have long been resolved outside the courtroom. Under the Communists, community and factory mediation committees have handled small matters, like bicycle collisions or family squabbles. The emphasis is on conciliation and confession, sometimes extracted at "struggle sessions" between the offender and his neighbors or coworkers. More serious crimes, like robbery or rape, are dealt with by the police, usually with party officials looking over their shoulders. Although the crime rate is hard to determine, not many Chinese go to jail. For instance, Shanghai (pop. 10.8 million) has only 2,600 inmates in its prison, giving the city...
UNTIL THEN, the management of police personnel should be a major tool in providing better protection against crime in minority communities. As Brighton Detective Rufo pointed out, since the rapes took place in his community, and his district, he wanted to see the violence stopped as much as anyone else. Roxbury, Dorchester and South End residents, are entitled to the same degree of diligence from their police officers. And they need more black and Hispanic police appointed and assigned to their neighborhoods...
While he and Hieu are undeniably zealous crusaders, their tales of prison life rival those of Solzghenitsyn. Toai and Hieu insist that all the captives in Vietnamese jails are political prisoners, whose only crime is lackluster support or outright opposition to the government. While prisoners in the re-education camps work at hard labor, the captives in the jails are kept inside a small room and are taken outside only for interrogation. "It was so crowded that you had to sleep standing up, and when I got out for a while I could not sleep lying down," Toai says. Hieu...