Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...semipermanent residence in the Alexander Hotel, where the walls are painted peach, the carpet has a magenta stripe, and even the lines in the parking garage have been repainted pink. Some civic leaders were originally unhappy at the prospect of a network- TV series blaring the city's crime problems into living rooms across the nation. But Miami Vice's success has quieted most of the naysayers. Miami officials estimate that the production contributes $1 million per episode to the city's economy, and the show may even be boosting the tourist trade. "I like Miami Vice," says Mayor Maurice...
Some suggest that for blacks in the ghetto, crime and a life of violence are an occupational choice, like becoming a doctor or lawyer is for a child from the suburbs. In the ghetto, suggests Benjamin Carmichael in an article in Black Perspectives on Crime and the Criminal Justice System, the successful criminal cuts a glamorous figure and projects an enviable life-style, becoming a role model for youngsters whose only glimpse of wealth is on Dynasty or Dallas. Says Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.): "You cannot ignore the fact that a poor black...
...police and the criminal justice system as tools of oppression rather than remedies for it. Even today, some experts argue, the criminal justice system spurs black-on- black violence by practicing a double standard. R. Eugene Pincham, a black Illinois Appellate Court judge, lists the four tiers of crime: white on white, white on black, black on white, and black on black. "The punishment is most severe for black-on-white crime," he says, more severe than either white on white or white on black. The punishment is mildest for black on black. Notes Pincham: "It thereby gives tacit approval...
...keep clean. Says he: "The reason we were out there destroying buses is that we didn't have nothing to do. We were the problem." In Atlanta, the police are looking to the citizens for help. George Napper, the city's black public safety commissioner, helped create Partnership Against Crime, a program in which citizens and police identify safety problems in communities and work out ways to deal with them. So far, that has involved shifting police patrol hours, setting up neighborhood-watch programs and business-watch groups...
...Smith is a Harlem legend. Her son David was shot in 1979, an act that moved her to mobilize her neighborhood to protest the violence that was undoing it. She and her neighbors lobbied for increased police protection of their area, set up neighborhood-watch groups and a special crime hot line...