Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moved through the officer ranks during the 1960s. promoted from within the department, his colleagues say. not because of political friendships but because of ability. In 1977. he became a deputy superintendent in the Boston Police and commander of Area B. one of Boston's most crime-ridden districts. encompassing Roxbury. Dorchester and Mattapan...
...five or 15: one minute he asks idiotic questions about the meaning of "Humpty Dumpty," and the next he lectures his father on the nature of moral responsibility. Scheller carries off some of the more moving moments of the second act with admirable aplomb, but it seems a crime to saddle a 13-year-old actor with such a large-and inconsistent--role...
...execution of many of the 1,289 people currently on death rows in 34 states. The Justices ruled that state appeals courts have no constitutional obligation to review a death sentence to see whether it is "proportionate" to the punishment imposed on others convicted of the same crime...
...prison-reform group. "We've got to brace ourselves for losing some folks. It's like being in a war." One loss came just three days after the court's proportionality decision. In Florida, Anthony Antone, 66, convicted of arranging the contract killing of an organized-crime investigator, was electrocuted, the twelfth man to die since...
...story begins with the creation of a new teritorial police squad for combatting a crime wave in Belleville, a distinctly unpicturesque part of paris. The group of policemen are all right-something of a mostly crew. The captain, who is still emotionally fighting the Algerian War, is determined to win this time. There is paluzzi brighter than the others, but smarting from knowing that he is really just as small a fry as the drug-pushers and pickpockets he is out to get. The Belgian, tall, goony, and love-starved, looks and acts like a clumsy kid with a congenital...