Word: crimed
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David Dinkins was the first black mayor of New York City (1990-94); Rudolph Giuliani, the current mayor, rode to office on a law-and-order, pro-police platform, and is expected to coast to re-election in large part because of a precipitous 54% drop in serious crime during his time in office. Suddenly, he was faced with the flip side--an apparently horrific instance of police brutality that punctuated three years of complaints by blacks and Hispanics that police abusiveness was out of control. It was not the kind of endorsement Giuliani, usually outspoken in his support...
...other officers from the 70th Precinct were either transferred, suspended or demoted to desk duty. Both the Brooklyn district attorney's office and the U.S. Attorney's office are investigating the incident, and more arrests are expected. New York City police commissioner Howard Safir called it a "horrific crime" and pointed out that it was a police officer who was present who came forward to implicate his colleagues. Safir told TIME, "We are going to make sure the perpetrators...go to jail." Giuliani's critics say the mayor's concern is too little, too late. Civil claims paid...
Clearly there's a gap in racial understanding that needs to be bridged. A 1996 Amnesty International report said that New York's populace is 57% nonwhite, but the police force is 72% white. Even some cops are fed up. "For years the police department has allowed crime to concentrate and flourish in certain areas, and overnight that has changed," says Anthony Miranda, head of the Latino Officers Association. "We now have aggressive enforcement without any understanding of neighborhoods or history. We have gone from a tolerance of crime in certain areas to zero tolerance without any concern...
...people, with four full-time private investigators and 10 forensics experts, including several handwriting analysts and a linguist. On Sunday, moreover, the Ramseys ran their fourth local newspaper ad appealing for help from the public. The ad noted that the killer "appears to be obsessed with techno-crime movies and phrases from them" and included quotes from Ransom, Dirty Harry and Speed that the family says are similar to ones in the bogus ransom note...
...nature of temptation--"I'm playing Hamlet with my willpower (Should I or shouldn't I?)." The literary reference must suffice to convey his torment because he coyly declines to reveal the snakes in his Garden. Instead, he breaks the Kennedy-clan mantra of loyalty no matter what the crime by observing that cousin Joseph, who tried to annul his first marriage, and cousin Michael, who dallied with the baby-sitter, had become the "poster boys for bad behavior." Being just a poster boy, after all, is so much seemlier...