Word: crimes
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...Chicago break-ins were part of a nationwide crime wave that has victimized more than 600 agencies, netting perhaps 500,000 tickets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And the crimes are continuing. A Marietta, Ga., agency was recently hit twice for 6,000 tickets. "It's organized crime, and it's big," says former Miami Metro Dade detective Gary Yallelus, who along with his partner, John Little, first identified the ring. In 1996 and '97 they arrested 10 people in connection with the thefts, including several of the Colombians and Rafael Horacio Fernandez, 51, a resident alien from Argentina...
...think I would, because of the problem of confidentiality. A patient is given confidentiality, but there are exceptions. If there is a crime planned...there's an obligation to tell the authorities. Under these circumstances, I don't think I could guarantee confidentiality and be helpful...
Gaither's death has become a rallying point for gay-rights organizations' and state legislators' pushing a bill that would extend Alabama's three-year-old hate-crimes law beyond race, color, religion and national origin to cover crimes related to sexual orientation as well. "It's unfortunate that somebody had to lose his life in order for this legislation to pick up momentum here in the state of Alabama," says state Representative Alvin Holmes, who failed to get the original law amended when it was passed in 1996. Holmes filed for extending the law after Matthew Shepard...
SYLVESTER MONROE, our South bureau chief, reports this week on a crime syndicate that uses stolen airline tickets to smuggle illegal aliens into the country. He has been investigating this story on and off since November 1996, when he heard about a series of travel-agency burglaries. As he dug deeper, he says, the story "shifted from fraud to a real public concern." Monroe also reports in this issue on the recent hate crime in Sylacauga...
International crime will probably never attract the sort of headlines and public anxieties that were expended on the Manichaean struggle between the West and the U.S.S.R. Compared with the prospect of nuclear annihilation, hoodlums smuggling things across borders strike most people as an inevitable and tolerable fact of life. But John le Carre, the most artful chronicler of fictionalized cold war espionage (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), takes a less sanguine view of the outlaw capitalism that only intensified after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the breakup of the old world...