Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Compared with many other stories, the Goetz phenomenon was easy to report, if only because nearly everyone, from law-enforcement authorities to the man or woman in the street, has a ready opinion on violent crime. TIME correspondents working on this week's cover stories gathered a full sample of such reactions across the country. They also found themselves remembering their own experiences with crime and criminals...
...past. Kalb also drew on his experience covering Watergate to report on how grand juries work. His New York colleague, Correspondent Kenneth Banta, talked with Goetz's neighbors and friends and rode the city's subways for a day to canvass straphangers on the level and fear of crime. Banta knows about crime first hand: he was the victim of an attempted mid-Manhattan robbery six years ago. While reporting this week's story, he recalled "the overwhelming sense of helplessness and anger I had felt then...
Police officials attribute the decline in Cambridge crime to an increase in crime solving, the creation of 18 neighborhood crime watches in four years, and a decrease in the juvenile population...
Harvard Square is safer than it has been in recent years, the department's crime watchers said, because of extra police assigned to the area due to recent Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority construction...
Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson also said that he disagrees with the Boston Magazine report, claiming the percentages for University crime are down...