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Last Monday's crime was an anomaly in Cambridge, which reported a 41 percent drop in rapes over the first three quarters of 1999. That drop continues a near constant 10-year downward trend in so-called "stranger rapes." Acquaintance rapes, where the victim knows the attacker, are more common...
...rose Sunday morning, the loss at The Game became a faint memory (or perhaps that was just due to excessive tailgating). The morning light restored perspective. Sure, they can buy overflowing pitchers of beer for $7. But was that worth the ponderous Gothic architecture, the seedy neighborhood and a crime rate that necessitates that each "college" be a gated community? The answer, of course, was no. There is no incentive large enough to want to become a dreaded Yalie...
Taking to heart the boxing motto that you should lead with your strongest punch, a group of federal prosecutors is trying to use the RICO anti-racketeering statute to shake up the International Boxing Federation as if it were the Gambino crime family. Monday, several New Jersey U.S. attorneys filed a civil suit against the IBF - the only major sanctioning body based in the U.S. - seeking the appointment of a monitor to oversee the restructuring of the organization. The impetus: Earlier this month, four top officials from the IBF were indicted on racketeering charges, including taking payoffs to rank lower...
...good day for law enforcement in America. Two sets of numbers were released Monday, each casting their own optimistic light on the citizenry and what one analyst called "the contagion of lawfulness." The first figures, from the FBI, show that serious crime plunged 10 percent in the first half of 1999, the largest drop in the 1990s. Those rates include rape, murder, aggravated assault and burglaries. And as if that's not enough to put a smile on Bill Bennett's face, new numbers from the private antidrug group Partnership for a Drug Free America show that drug use among...
...stepping up antigun campaigns. It's probably more complicated than either of these explanations would suggest, and there will be a rash of analyses; some will point to the rising rates of incarcerations, some may even promote a causal link between the numbers (less drug use means less crime). At this point, of course, everyone will claim as much credit as possible, pat themselves on the back and whisper prayers to the gods of healthy economies...