Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basically, King is about as conservative as they come. Right down the line he eagerly tells people he can create jobs (so what if it makes a little noise or messes up the environment), he can control crime by locking everyone up or executing the murderers, and he can lower taxes (although he isn't going to take "band-aids" away from anyone.). Frank Hatch, being the nice guy that he is, hasn't come out with a strong enough attack plan. He's too honest to tell people he will cut property taxes by $500 million; he points...
...competition back into the American free enterprise system." His implication was that companies now getting special Government protection, like limitations on imports, might lose that protection if they do not observe the price guidelines. Warned Schultze about the enforcement tactics: "We'll let the punishment fit the crime...
...long been liberal dogma that to eliminate crime, society must eliminate the causes: poverty and racial inequality. But even as the U.S. was pouring billions into social welfare programs, and systematically attacking discrimination, during the '60s and early '70s, violent crime was booming. Since 1960 the rate of robbery, murder and rape has almost tripled. Lately it has become fashionable to target the culprits, not the causes?simply to catch criminals and lock them...
...liberal line may be Utopian. But believing that more cops and tougher judges will stop crime is wishful as well, says Charles Silberman in his important new book, Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice.* Silberman's searching study faces some uncomfortable truths?like the fact that blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime?and debunks a host of myths along...
...starters, Silberman points out that crime is "as American as Jesse James." Abraham Lincoln called internal violence America's biggest problem well over a century ago; Herbert Hoover anticipated Richard Nixon's law-and-order campaign by four decades; an 1872 guidebook to New York City warned tourists to avoid Central Park after sundown. What was abnormal was a quarter-century of stable or declining crime rates between the end of Prohibition and 1960, an era that ended when the baby boom produced a huge generation of 14-to 24-year-olds, the prime age for crime...