Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only ignored key witnesses but also kept him abreast of the case as it developed. John Rankin Jr., the retired IRS assistant commissioner for inspection who oversaw the Saranow investigation, denies a whitewash. "I think Ron made some bad judgments, but I don't think he committed a crime," he says...
...gauntlet of hundreds of angry demonstrators, some chanting, "What do you do with a drunken sailor? Make him skipper of an Exxon tanker!" Environmental activist Barry Commoner summed up the spirit of the crowd when he declared, "We are here to pass judgment on a crime against nature and the American people...
...paradox is that while prisons are filled beyond their capacity, there has been little discernible reduction in crime. Though rates of serious offenses dipped for a time during the 1980s, they have been climbing again, fueled by an influx of drugs. Prison gates have become more like revolving doors: nearly two-thirds of all convicts are rearrested within three years of their release...
...began to consider possible explanations for why I was stopped. After all, I did have a Harvard bookbag full of constitutional law books, which must have tipped them off. And, I told myself, we were two Blacks out walking (not running, for some reason) in the vicinity of a crime committed by two Blacks...
...what would have happened if we had matched the description? We probably would have been taken to the scene of the crime. Some person would look us over: my fate in the hands of an angry stranger. I suppose I would have been upset at being taken somewhere to pose in a lineup. I didn't have much to do that night except finish a paper, so I must admit that I wouldn't have been terribly inconvienced...