Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is hardly a single big city in which the individual feels completely safe on the streets at night. The fear of violence permeates the entire nation, wafted by television and newspaper headlines into areas that only vicariously experience serious trouble. In western Nevada, Ormsby County Sheriff Robert Humphrey warns: "What I'm afraid of is that the public will demand that we take too much authority. That is the real danger. But the alternative might be some kind of vigilantes...
...three main tributaries that converge to make the law-and-order issue so powerful are: 1) the revolt of youth, whether against the war, the draft or the social system as a whole; 2) Negro militance and ghetto rioting; and 3) the individual's intense personal fear of criminal attack...
What concerns most people even more directly than student rebels and black riots is the fear of crime against the individual, of "the prowlers and muggers and marauders," in Nixon's words. No one questions that crime is growing. The issue is just how much, and whether the election-year emphasis on it is exaggerated. The primary fever gauge is the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports. The last full-year figures, for 1967, show an absolute 16.5% increase over the previous year in the offenses covered. The crime rate, taking
...very top of his ideal society, endowing him with special wisdom, strength and patience. The U.S. has put its guardians near the bottom. In most places, the pay for an experienced policeman is less than $7,000 a year, forcing many cops to moonlight and some to take bribes. Fear and loneliness are routine hazards. Last year 76 American policemen were killed and 10,770 injured by assault. "Everything you do is more or less on your own," says Christos Kasaras, a patrolman on Manhattan's West Side. "Trouble starts, and there you are." The average cop feels that...
...including most West German commanders, feel that the Soviet Union would not risk starting World War III by actually invading the Federal Republic. Nonetheless, ordinary West Germans cannot help feeling physically threatened by the Red Army. Impressed by the swiftness of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, many West Germans fear that Russian tanks might punch across the border so fast and at so many points that dozens of cities would be overrun before NATO got around to repelling the invasion with its tactical nuclear missiles. In that case, much of West Germany would become a nuclear battlefield-or fall...