Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marry a white or even whistle at one. (Emmett Till, 14, from Chicago, was beaten and shot to death in Mississippi in 1955 for such a "crime," and other blacks were routinely beaten for "reckless eyeballing," i.e., looking at a white female...
...really think the area is on the downswing in terms of crime these days," says Lenny Saviano, a detective in the Cambridge police department, whose familiar neon sign ("POLICE") is itself a famous Square landmark...
...suppose it all has to do with the times, they're changing constantly," he reflects. Saviano further theorizes that the recent surprising reduction in Central Square crime may be the result of outreach work initially undertaken by the late Chief Pisani. "The department has become community-oriented," says Saviano. "We're really increasing community involvement...
...felt a lot more crime problems when I was in Harvard Square," he adds. "My wife couldn't even walk around there without running into a flasher...
...Students always like to know how professors feel about subjects they teach," James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, who will use his new book "Thinking About Crime" to teach his Government 262 seminar on crime this fall, said last week. "Nobody is actually required to buy my book, but I feel there is no sense pretending you haven't written anything on the subject you're teaching if you have." And in this age when most Harvard professors must publish to get tenure, it's not startling that about one-eighth of the courses offered here include works...