Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan was asked about the Goetz case at midweek, certainly the first time a subway shooting had surfaced at a presidential news conference. His comment: he sympathized with public frustration about crime, but citizens could not take the law into their own hands...
...insisting that violence should not be condoned, noted that in the wake of the Goetz case a hit-and-run driver in New York City had been caught and beaten by an enraged mob. Said the Journal: "Authorities must recognize that their own failure to protect citizens itself breeds crime." The Boston Globe viewed "pistol- packin' Bernhard Goetz" with alarm: "With no psychiatric evaluation yet made, he may resemble Richard Speck more than Wyatt Earp...
...raise defense money. "Some black man ought to have done what he did long before," said Innis. "I wish it had been me." Innis called for a "volunteer peace officer" force of armed civilians to roam the streets. "After enough criminals get blasted," he said, "they will conclude that crime does...
Walter Berns, a political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank, argued that the angry pro-Goetz sentiment, based on moral indignation about crime, is a healthy sign. "It's an expression of an honest and decent sentiment," he said. "Anger, coming from someone who has not been personally victimized by a criminal, is an expression of concern for fellow citizens. That expression should not be derided or despised...
...Angeles District Attorney Ira Reiner saw nothing wrong with the public support for a victim of crime who fights back. "To live today in urban America means that you are severely at risk and essentially helpless to deal with the problem of crime. When someone comes along to make you feel you are not helpless, then everyone collectively throws their hats...