Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terribly difficult as a family member to see that people are not doing what needs to be done, which is to hand over the suspects in the crime," she said...
...Mayor explicitly condemned the action and launched a full investigation into it, his opponents succeeded in portraying the Louima case as evidence of a dark, unseemly element in Giuliani's New York. Al Sharpton and Messinger, then the Mayor's two principle Democratic opponents, attacked Giuliani for his anti-crime zeal, framing the issue of "law and order" as a battle between crime prevention and the safety of the underprivileged--a battle in which the Mayor was on the wrong side. According to them, the fact of the Louima case somehow counterbalanced all the progress that had been made...
...since then, the Mayor's opponents have done far more than simply insist on an indefensible moral equivalence between a 60 percent decline in violent crime and the brutalization of a single man. In the aftermath of the Louima incident, the liberal camp has devised a more comprehensive "spin" on New York's renewal in general, one with far wider potential application. The liberals now attack New York's unprecedented success in fighting crime by arguing that crime prevention is for the white and wealthy. They frame the situation as follows: the police protect the privileged and beat the poor...
Ahtisaari said that the world has been facing new security threats since the end of the Cold War, mostly from organized crime...
...Republicans are crying foul; Democrats are likely to point out that being observant is not a crime. And it's not likely to get juicier than that...