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...combat the crime wave. In the first four days of their operation, the police made 150 arrests In doing so, they stopped and questioned more than 1,000 people, invoking Britain's 150-year-old Sus (for suspect) law. The statute allows the police to question and even detain random suspects if there is reason to believe they may be planning to commit a crime. Overuse of the Sus law is a frequent complaint, not only in Brixton but elsewhere in the country. Blacks are twice as likely as whites to be arrested under the law, and black community...
Residents have long chafed at local police use of a 150-year-old loitering statute that allows them to detain anyone they believe intends to commit a crime; studies show that the law is ten times as likely to be used against blacks as whites. In February about 10,000 demonstrators, including many from Brixton, marched peacefully in nearby Deptford to protest what they considered deliberately lethargic police investigation of the deaths of two young blacks in a fire. The latest spark appears to have been struck the evening before the rioting, when blacks accused police of failing to respond...
...subsequent "state of siege in the degree of internal security" change the status quo. Although the regime later created a right of appeal to the courts, Decree Law 1877 (August 12, 1977) nullified this right by stipulating that under a "state of emergency" the regime possessed the power to detain Chilean citizens arbitrarily and suspend appeal to the courts. Until the revocation of the "state of siege" in March 1978 Chile remained under both a "state of siege" and a "state of emergency...
There are federal laws that forbid persons to detain a Government carrier pigeon or to use the likeness of Smokey Bear without permission, and bar seamen from seducing passengers on a steamship. Yet there is no national statute prohibiting bank extortion, and some espionage offenses are buried in the chapter on atomic energy. These are just a few of the peculiarities of federal criminal law, a hodgepodge of 3,000 statutes that have accumulated since the first days of the republic. As a whole, says Senate Judiciary Committee Special Counsel Kenneth Feinberg, the aide most responsible for promoting...
Bail. Now the only criterion in noncapital cases for determining whether a suspect should be freed on bail is the likelihood that he will appear for trial. The Senate bill would also allow judges to detain a suspect if he seemed dangerous. The A C.L.U. says that such preventive detention would be a denial of the presumption of innocence. The House version would not change bail procedures...