Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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On September 31, Frisoli appeared at a council meeting with his proposal that all councilors be required to file detailed records of their personal finances, as well as civil and criminal dockets, with the city clerk. The council had been recently debating whether a similar requirement could be made on...
At the next meeting of the council, Frisoli distributed leaflets taking the councilors to task for their inaction and charging that "criminal activities" might be uncovered if his plan were imposed. This time, Frisoli left before he could present his case. But since then, the issue of disclosure has become...
For a handgun ban to have its desired effects, it must first reduce the availability of handguns, particularly to those who are likely to use them to commit crime, murder, and violence. But Cassidy argues that a ban is unlikely to reduce their availability to the criminal element most likely...
"No one has statistics on how many crimes are prevented in this manner, but there are certainly quite a few." Cassidy says. Private handgun ownership can prevent crime when attackers are scared away or when the crime never occurs because the potential criminal fears his victim will be armed, he...
Central to this controversy of doctors v. judges is the whole problem of skyrocketing malpractice suits (TIME, June 16). "Physicians I have known for years stare at me in bewilderment, wondering what kind of situation we're in now," says Dr. William Curran of the Harvard School of Public...