Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House has proposed its own bill that puts more emphasis on money for crime-prevention measures, such as keeping schools open in the afternoon from 3 to 6, when almost half of juvenile crimes take place. While the Senate would allow states to use as much as 40% of the federal money they get for prevention programs, the House would require them to spend it all on law enforcement. The White House wants to require safety locks on guns to prevent kids from accidentally shooting other kids, a provision opposed by the National Rifle Association. "A juvenile-crime bill...
Just naming the legislation has caused a fight. When McCollum introduced his House version last year, he called it the Violent Youth Predator Act. Insisting that "predator" was dehumanizing hype, Democrats demanded a change. McCollum backed off and called it the Juvenile Crime Control Act. But this isn't just a fight over crime. It's also a fight over which party is tougher on crime. In that one, harsh words can be as tempting as harsh sentences...
...crimes go, this one could have simply been folded into the sordid caseload of juvenile violence in America. Youth are killed on urban streets every day. Yet this crime, cloaked sensationally in black-on-white, is quickly escalating into a small-town version of the O.J. Simpson case. During a preliminary hearing last week, as Nicole testified against a row of handcuffed suspects, one of her supporters yelled, "Hang 'em!" Meanwhile, the defendants' families are murmuring about conspiracies against their boys. Flint Mayor Woodrow Stanley is struggling to manage a crisis that threatens to further damage the city's image...
...penalty should not have been death. Joan Boyce is left without her son Michael forever. As the FBI investigates the attack as a potential hate crime, Boyce points out an irony: her two other children were born to black fathers. "Michael never had that kind of hatred in his heart," she says. "I want this to be about all our kids dying in the streets. It's not just black...
...every direction. Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carol Robertson--ages 11 to 14--died in the blast. Even during the bloodiest days of racial conflict in the South, even in a city so beset by explosives that it was nicknamed Bombingham, this was a uniquely shocking crime. Recalls Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a civil rights veteran who was in Alabama at the time: "It was one of the darkest hours of the civil rights movement...