Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deputy City Manager Richard Rossi, who chaired the original Central Square Committee in 1983, says that community leaders were most concerned then with crime, street people, and garbage removal. "One of the things we needed to do was coordinate city, non-profit, and commercial leaders in the area," Rossi says...
...result of the committee's recommendation, the police added more personnel to the Central Square beat and the department started keeping better crime statistics, Rossi says. Like Woodbury, Rossi insists that "the whole thrust was not to change Central Square but to make it more appealing for those who already live there...
...technique not only helps place the suspect at the scene of the crime, but can also suggest what he or she was doing there. "One may have some plausible explanation for fingerprints," explains Timothy Berry, a prosecutor in Orlando. "But blood, semen, uprooted hair, skin under the fingernails of the victim are something else." The information can be so damning that it precipitates a confession. In Tacoma last December, a bus driver pleaded guilty to rape, although the victim, a 57-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease, does not remember the crime. DNA analysis established that semen...
...drug pushers and child molesters in Massachusetts vote for Michael Dukakis." Angrily waving one of the pamphlets over his head, Dukakis growled, "Friends, this is garbage. This is political garbage. This isn't worthy of a political campaign." All during the week he spoke with feeling about two crime victims he knew well: his father, a doctor, who was once bound, gagged and beaten in his office by an addict looking for drugs, and his brother Stelian, killed by a hit-and-run driver. "I know something about crime," he said. "I don't need any lectures from George Bush...
...Bush's refusal to engage in another debate. Last week Dukakis agreed to a 90-minute interview on ABC's Nightline to air Tuesday, to be preceded by a five-minute live, paid appearance on NBC, during which he intends to accuse Bush of lying about his record on crime. There is, of course, no guarantee that this effort will work. Bush's campaign has saved about half of its federal campaign funds for late TV and radio ads, and plans to stage as large a blitz as Dukakis. So far, Bush has won the battle of the ads hands...