Word: crimed
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Last Friday, Safir appointed a black officer to the No. 2 position in the street-crimes unit. (Black leaders dismiss the move as window dressing.) Both Safir and Giuliani have emphatically denied that the police are guilty of misconduct or racial bias. The Diallo controversy, Giuliani says, has been stirred up by political activists and the scandal-hungry press. In fact, he points out, fatal shootings by police are at their lowest level in 13 years. The police department is controversial, its supporters say, because it has been doing its job vigorously. And they note that it has been phenomenally...
...sensational police shootings. Day in and day out, minority communities around the country feel unfairly burdened by America's tough new policing strategies. In an illegal tactic called racial profiling, blacks and Latinos charge, New Jersey police pull over a disproportionate number of minority drivers, then look for a crime or violation to charge them with. A study found that the troopers are five times as likely to target blacks as they are whites. Governor Christine Todd Whitman fired the state-police superintendent this month for defending his officers by saying minorities are more involved than whites in drug trafficking...
...When crime rates are high--or when there is a horrific crime, like the Nicarico murder--the pressure on law enforcement is immense. But get-tough policies can mean getting tough on innocent people--even sending them to death row. With crime rates falling, Americans don't want to go soft on crime, but their sense of fairness is being sorely tested. Communities are beginning to ask how prosecutors and police can be effective while still respecting citizens' rights. Now it's time for law-enforcement officials to start taking the question seriously too. "The criminal-justice system works," says...
Even with clues from the burned car, agents are unsure where they might next find answers. The landscape has sharp ravines, alpine lakes and mineshafts dating back to the gold-rush days of the mid-1800s. There are many places to hide evidence of a crime...
With reference to the article "Tourists Who Prey on Kids" [CRIME, Feb. 15], ECPAT International, a nongovernment group committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation of children, would like to explain why extraterritorial laws are essential for protecting the rights of children. Under the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, children are guaranteed the right to physical and moral integrity. In 1996, 122 governments, including the U.S., committed themselves to eradicate sexual abuse of children. We sincerely hope that the American government and citizens will continue to implement the 1994 law, which allows for prosecution of Americans who sexually...