Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former consumer affairs commissioner and now a savvy political woman about town. In addition, Koch had a strategy. A self-proclaimed "liberal with sanity," he would adjust to the harsh new realities of life in the city by emphasizing management reform and by taking a tough line on fighting crime-including advocating capital punishment. He also became incumbent Mayor Abe Beame's sternest critic...
...want to chop your head off if you support capital punishment," Koch declares. "It's immoral, they say. Why is it immoral? It's part of the Judaeo-Christian tradition. I resent those liberals who let conservatives preempt issues which are of concern to the people, like crime...
Realizing that making arrests can be a sure way to impress department brass and win promotion, cops grab all the "perpetrators" they can put the arm on, but in their eagerness may neglect rudimentary procedures for gathering proof of the crime that will stand up well in court. With predictable results. In the course of a year, 31% of the Washington cops who made arrests produced no convictions whatsover...
Police generally deny any departmental obsession with arrest records. They say they are forced into what appears to be an arrest numbers game by the rising crime rate. They also point out that dealing with criminals is complicated and dangerous, and argue that even if an aggressive arrest policy does not always lead to convictions, it has a deterring effect on crime. The Washington study sharply disagrees with this view. The number of suspects arrested, rather than convicted, it contends, not only has little effect on crime but actually undermines the law by making it "difficult for many persons...
...example, a recent collaborative experiment in which Washington police and a team of prosecutors combined forces to instruct officers in such elementary matters as interviewing witnesses, verifying the accuracy of their information and advising them on what is expected of a witness in court. The report praises imaginative crime-control tactics like Washington's Operation Sting, in which phony fences were set up to receive stolen goods while officials secretly photographed and recorded the transactions to provide airtight evidence. Such operations, now being carried on in several cities, apparently work quite well. When Washington police took the trouble...