Word: crimeeds
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...even richer and a lot more powerful ? and Boris Yeltsin?s political survival became intimately linked with their fate. What the current crop of financial scandals points to is that in the '90s rush to exorcise the ghost of Stalinism, the distinctions between government, legitimate business and organized crime became dangerously blurred in Russia. "Crime, politics and business in Russia feed off each other," says Meier. "Russia?s huge criminal organizations were born, and continue to thrive, because of their access to political power...
...latest crime statistics released by the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) would give any other departments reason to brag. They're so low, in fact, that they could even help resolve tension between officers and the police commissioner, and low morale in the department...
Coverage of the original impertinent comments eclipsed a summer filled with positive news for the department's crime-fighting efforts. Rape is down 36 percent so far this year. There are fewer robberies, fewer assaults, and no murders. Street robberies, long a thorn in the side of patrol officers, were down 16 percent through June...
...neighborhood caught in a crime wave, the anger toward the police commissioner apparent at the meeting is no surprise...
...interview with The Crimson last spring, Watson said he was doing the best job he could--and that the results of his tenure, a low crime rate, speak for themselves...