Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gain jobs and admission to schools for which they are under-qualified, while cheapening the achievements of those who could have succeeded without preferential treatment. Social programs pushed by the civil rights establishment often aggravate the problems they are supposed to solve. The crises of the ghetto--rampant crime, wanton violence, the high school dropout rate, illegitimate births--can no longer be attributed simply to white racism, nor can they be solved simply with more money from Washington. Blacks must take primary responsibility for the "social pathologies" that ail their communities...
...crime rate for the nation is the lowest since 1978, according to a separate FBI report released earlier this year...
...state's relatively strong economy may also have an effect on crime, he said. "The more people you have working, the less crime you'll have," he said...
...Crime in Cambridge...
...evening, Cambridge meter maid Elizabeth A. Gallinaro had just finished writing a parking ticket for a Chevrolet parked at the cornner of Trowbridge St. and Broadway when 30-year-old Cantabrigian Debbie Sharpe allegedly grabbed her and punched her in the face. Three witnesses at the scene of the crime confirmed the incident...