Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were apparently motivated by more than mischievousness. Authorities alleged last week that the test scam was designed to place certain officers in positions in which they could help cover up a racketeering operation that included drug dealing, robbery and involvement with organized-crime figures. Last week a federal grand jury indicted Doherty, Clemente and eight other current or former Massachusetts lawmen who were allegedly in on the scam...
Welcome to Parchman's "boot camp" prison. Officially known as the Regimented Inmate Discipline program, it is a paramilitary project designed to discourage young, first-time felons from pursuing a life of crime. Under constant harassment from prison officers, the participants are put through a regimen of grueling exercise and labor. After 90 days, the burglars, robbers and petty dope pushers are supposed to be transformed into confident, upstanding citizens...
...advised of their right not to answer questions, and he has denounced the 1961 Mapp vs. Ohio verdict blocking the use in a trial of illegally seized evidence. Such judgments aid only the guilty, he said, insisting, "You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime...
...weeks ago, New York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato and Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, both in disguise, had no trouble purchasing vials of crack from peddlers in the city's Washington Heights section. Many New York law-enforcement authorities believe that a substantial increase in crime this year might be attributed to the crack epidemic. In May of this year cocaine arrests were up 68% over the figures for May 1985, while arrests for heroin, marijuana and other drugs had dropped. Crack has all but consumed parts of neighborhoods such as Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant...
William Douglas, a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, tried to turn his appointments with Prostitute Robin Benedict into a love affair. The price to Douglas was his savings; the cost to Benedict was her life. This is the most sensitively rendered of nine crime tales of middle-class America. In each of them, Journalist Linda Wolfe sounds a persistent theme: warning signals usually precede "unpredictable" criminal acts. Her accounts are too brief for a true understanding of minds gone wrong, but she makes even the most absurd act -- and its subsequent explanation -- seem plausible. A carefully polished alibi...