Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failure of law enforcement to make any measurable dent in drug use has not resulted from a lack of effort. New laws have helped. A crime act passed by Congress in 1984 made it easier to seize the assets of drug dealers before | conviction. Federal agents last year relieved them of about $360 million. Local police are trying some innovative approaches. In Boston, New York City and Miami, they have begun confiscating the cars of well-off suburbanites who drive into the cities and get arrested while buying crack. The haul in New York since late July: 107 cars, including...
Federal Judge Eugene Nickerson disclosed that a trusted member of Gotti's Gambino crime family had secretly taped conversations between the capo and his confederates over a 30-month period. The informant, a self-styled former hit man named Dominick Lofaro, was brazen enough to carry a concealed wire right into Gotti's lair, the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club in Ozone Park, N.Y. His cooperation with authorities marked the first time that a Mafia "soldier" had ever worked as an informant while on active duty. The intelligence coup, said one New York City police officer, was "like penetrating...
...searched for the hidden wire. From 1984 until last March, Lofaro made more than 50 tapes that include conversations between Gotti and his lieutenants. The tapes, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Diane Giacalone, provide "direct evidence of John Gotti's role as manager of the gambling enterprise" of the Gambino crime family...
...country is becoming unstuck," insists Arnold Trebach, director of the Institute on Drugs, Crime and Justice at American University in Washington. "This is a very serious problem, but it is a problem that has leveled off." Americans, particularly younger ones, are in fact learning to just say no. Reports Charles Schuster, the director of the National Institute on Drug and Alcohol Abuse: "The trend since 1979 is that people are backing off. In almost all classes of drugs, abuse among younger people has diminished. When you get that kind of change in attitude on the part of youth...
...Crime is directly fueled by drug abuse. "I believe the crime problem in America today is the drug problem," declares New York City Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward. The sheer dollar volume of narcotics traffic is immense, estimated at anywhere from $27 billion to $110 billion a year. In a study released this year of the link between drugs and street crime in New York and Washington, 56% of suspects tested were using drugs at the time of arrest. In Florida, the burglary rate is up 30% so far this year; cocaine arrests...