Word: dragnet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quincy, Mass., July 22, 1985. Three youths are accused of beating a vagrant to death behind a school building. At the same time, local police officers begin what some have called a discriminatory dragnet of the city's homeless. Seven transients are rounded...
Charging the police with racially motivated brutality and harassment, parents of the children told community leaders in several public forums that police arbitrarily rounded up their children in a "dragnet" of city streets...
Recently on the planet GoBotron, the vile Cy-Kill eluded the dragnet of staunch and stalwart Leader1 by changing himself into a motorcycle. Where would he go next to foment trouble? "Planet Earth is ripe for the taking!" sneered the nefarious one to his henchmen. "The earthling young can surely be persuaded to nag their parents until our triumph is complete...
...celebrated in TV programs such as Dragnet and Adam 12, the Los Angeles police department has long been the very model of a modern constabulary: efficient, dedicated and incorruptible. But that image is being dealt a severe blow by allegations that from 1970 to 1981 the department ran a domestic spy operation, infiltrating more than 200 political, religious, labor and civic organizations and amassing information on thousands of Angelenos. Most of the snooping was illegal and politically motivated, charges the American Civil Liberties Union, whose suit on behalf of 131 victims is scheduled to go to trial next month. Says...
...week's end the dragnet had yielded 19 fugitives, 15 by Sunday night, two more on each of the following two days. Many of those were merely sacrificial pawns, analysts believe, willing to be recaptured to cover the escape of some of the I.R.A.'s most notorious terrorists. Among those still at large: Brendan McFarlane, 31 Jailed for life for a bombing attack that killed five civilians in a Belfast bar; Kevin Artt, 24, jailed in August for the 1978 murder of Albert Miles, a deputy governor of Maze Prison; and six others with life sentences for murders...