Word: distruster
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...lasting improvement is likely unless police-community relations are sub-4stantially improved," the 228 page document concluded. And it laid responsibility for the widespread distrust of police among minority groups squarely on the "many ill-conceived actions of individual police officers and administrators...
...real problem is one of attitudes -- both of and toward police -- the commis- sion said. It proposed community relations units to reduce distrust and urged police departments to screen prospective officers more carefully and supervise them more strictly...
...phrase, the "New Left," has been used to describe this whole development but this term implies a greater connection with the "old Left" than actually exists and an ideology that is "left" and thus in some sense socialist. While there are socialistic elements there is rather more emphasis on distrust of big government, preference for local action, nostalgia for a "Golden Age" that never existed, and emphasis on the individual and his personal choice. The Right of Goldwater is in evidence as well as the Left of Marx, but what is most in evidence is a vision of the good...
Part of the distrust of the law-and of legal doctrine-is explained by the general Chinese dislike of abstraction. The Chinese intellect tends not to distinguish between general and particular ideas. The Chinese resists logical analysis in the Aristotelian either/or sense. He reasons in what, to the Western mind, seems a chain of non sequiturs. Similarly, the Chinese tends to regard events, not as a matter of cause and effect, but in terms of symmetrical patterns...
...Communist China also appeared, claiming to be a new power center of international politics in Asia. Since the U.S. has kept its concern in this area keen--in terms of seeking better deployment for its national interest, the two powers went very rapidly into rivalry. As is obvious, mutual distrust has ensued...