Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...society has proved nearly impossible. Politicians who attempt to strengthen gun laws only end up strengthening their opponents' wallets. In the face of such a formidable lobby, civil law suits are the government's only option to control the flow of guns. Lawsuits allow politicians to appear tough on crime while in reality passing the buck onto the court system. They hope that targeted companies will lose large enough verdicts so that the monetary interests of manufacturers fall in line with their moral responsibilities...
Local (and federal) taxpayers supplied the dollars not just for the outright corporate welfare, but also by picking up the costs of new classrooms and teachers, homelessness, increased crime, dwindling property values and an overall decline in the quality of life...
Terri Royster teaches a class in juvenile crime and behavior at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., and for years has studied correlations between childhood cruelty to animals and later criminal behavior. While many serial killers were found to have tortured animals as children, she says, she knows of no research that links hunting and violence against humans. "I can't think of any cases where hunting has been a factor." Similarly, Ronald Stephens, director of the National School Safety Center, created in 1984 to study violence in schools, has studied characteristics of children who kill at school, and says...
...this outside!" These warrior witnesses convince me that there is no good strategic reason for anyone to sit and listen to his character being trashed by committee members with their share of flaws. During one such hearing, the accusers included a plagiarist, an influence peddler, an apologist for organized crime and a criminally negligent motorist. It reminded me of the story of the woman who visits a butcher shop, picks up a chicken and starts prodding and sniffing the bird. The butcher asks, "Lady--you could pass such a test...
...rationale for the proposed legalization was to curb crime by making drugs available to any citizen over the age of 18. But critics warned that such a system would turn Switzerland into a clearinghouse for foreign drug dealers and cut it off from the international police community. That prospect was distinctly unappealing to the Swiss, who last year voted to provide heroin to hard-core users and currently face one of Europe's highest rates of drug addiction -- about 30,000 in a nation of 7 million...