Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crime Busters...
...correct in describing President Reagan's new federal anticrime laws as historic and far reaching [LAW, Oct. 29]. But the criminal-law experts you cite, who express doubt about the act's effect on the crime rate, fail to recognize the practical significance of these reforms. The laws contain tough new measures to help fight organized crime and major drug trafficking, which have been estimated to cause as much as half of all street crime. The anticrime package also contains more than 50 new sections, many of which enhance local law-enforcement efforts. These include statutes providing...
...uncurbed gunplay among Detroit's young people? Overall, violent crime in the city declined slightly in the first six months of 1984. But the youth-gang squad has been diminished to bare bones as part of a 36% reduction in police manpower since 1978. Budget cutbacks in the educational system have led to reductions in security at various schools. Unemployment remains well into double digits. Soup kitchens expect to take in more hungry this year than ever before. A growing number of citizens are below the poverty line. The violence among Detroit's children may be just...
...their first statement on the strike. N.U.M. President Arthur Scargill, speaking in the southern Wales town of Aberavon, was cheered wildly by an audience of over 4,000 when he condoned violence on the picket line. "I am not prepared to condemn the actions of my members whose only crime is fighting for the right to work," said Scargill. At the same meeting, the Trades Union Congress's new general secretary, Norman Willis, bravely decried "the brick, the bolt or the petrol bomb" as weapons detrimental to the miners' cause. He was jeered with savage shouts...
...friends, said yesterday that "Marek was in our room until 4 a.m. Then Charles, Marek and I went to Store 24 to get food, went immediately back to our room. The last time I looked at the time it was 4:33 a.m. Marek left around 20-of. The crime occurred next to Dunster around 4:25 a.m. As far as I am concerned, he's innocent...