Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...challenging the accuracy of evidence. Citizens groups are more vocal in their charges of police brutality. Warns Baden: "It's more important than ever that we don't make mistakes." A lax system will erode public faith in the credibility of the medical examiner, and that would be a crime...
...there's more to come, warned Thornburgh, saying, "This probe is part of an expanding Department of Justice crackdown on white-collar crime in all its various guises, from Wall Street to LaSalle Street to Main Street. The activities uncovered at these exchanges, the largest of their type in the world, cannot be tolerated...
Significantly, 18 of the traders were charged under the often criticized Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Originally passed by Congress in 1970 to combat organized crime, RICO is increasingly being used as a battering ram against the clubby defenses of financial institutions. Because it allows prosecutors to seize all assets -- including homes, salaries and pensions -- of those indicted, many people facing a RICO count offer to inform on their former colleagues in exchange for leniency. Last week Anton Valukas, the U.S. Attorney who supervised the 2 1/2-year probe, advised both Chicago exchanges that if the RICO-charged traders...
...weeks ago that torching an American flag is a constitutionally protected form of speech, politicians have stampeded to show off their patriotic fealty to Old Glory. Last week the House Judiciary Committee approved a Democratic proposal that would make setting fire to the Stars and Stripes a federal crime punishable by a year in prison. The measure could run into opposition from other Congressmen who think that nothing short of a constitutional amendment will serve to protect the flag from fiery desecration...
...surface of American life, but it is almost always publicly viewed through narrow prisms: a legal wrangle over affirmative action, a political campaign, an isolated incident of racial violence. Sharp disagreements about the origins and implications of the alarming growth of the black underclass and fears of drug-related crime have widened a gulf of mutual incomprehension between the races. Even in private discourse, whites and blacks have lost the capacity to talk to each other honestly about the subject that divides them more than any other...