Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Armed with shotguns, Magnums, carbines and clubs, teams of men sweep the streets, enforcing a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for everyone under 18. Citizens cower behind the barricaded doors of their own homes, listening to the shots and shouts that punctuate the night air. The city is not Beirut or Belfast but Detroit, whose agonies are every bit as real and whose conflicts seem equally impossible to eradicate...
...near riot, robberies, pillaging and rape, Detroit's black mayor, Coleman Young, belatedly rushed back from vacation and vowed last week, "We will not tolerate lawlessness in the streets. We will stand for it no longer." Detroit's police needed no further encouragement. Minutes after the curfew went into effect, plainclothesmen and uniformed cops were out in force, and anything that moved was fair game. At one point, a two-man team sighted three black youths on a dark street corner. "What are you doing out now?" demanded one cop as his partner covered the trio with...
Mere Rhetoric. Still, the malaise that grips the decaying motor capital is unlikely to yield to short-term measures like a curfew-and even less to mere rhetoric and good intentions. As John Cardinal Dearden, the Archbishop of Detroit, put it last week, "We are called upon to rebuild the structure...
...ignored. Though the city was not actually in flames, Mayor Young stoically cut short his vacation. Having laid off 1,000 policemen in July because of a fiscal squeeze, he rehired 675 of them and immediately assigned 200 to gang-busting patrols. The city council also ordered the curfew, which curtailed the gangs' activities, at least for the moment. Aside from ordering a tightening of procedures, however, there was not much that Young could do about Detroit's overburdened and overly lenient juvenile-court system, whose facilities are so inadequate that robbers and rapists under...
...they must face apartheid constantly and always carry the "reference book" that Soweto-born Poet Mtshali calls "the document of my existence." These passbooks−which must be produced, on threat of jail, whenever a policeman demands one−include photographs, place of residence, employer, taxes paid and special curfew privileges if any. The average black salary in Johannesburg is $140 a month, only slightly more than the cost of living for a family of five in the box houses of Soweto. Average white salaries, in contrast, are at least five times higher. If Sowetoians are lucky, they may advance...