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...order clamor has yet to do much for police morale?and is unlikely to. Criminologists, lawyers and thoughtful police officials are gradually recognizing that police problems go deeper than Supreme Court decisions that allegedly handcuff cops, and beyond the constant risk of sudden death in defense of unappreciative citizens. Nor is the real trouble the continuing emergence of new social abrasions?the mushrooming growth of hard-drug addiction, the bombings of urban buildings (four embassies in Washington were blasted last week), the crescendo of riots and demonstrations unmatched since the 1930s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: What the Police Can--And Cannot--Do About Crime | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

...film as the master criminal replete with belted trench coat and salt-and-pepper mustache, is a man both obviously enamored of his project and absolutely blind to the faults of the beloved. With tedious attention to detail, Robbery examines every minor maneuver of the criminals, watches a handcuff screw turn 17 times before it is opened, sees every last bag of loot passed from hand to hand into waiting trucks. And after playing it taut upper lip until the last moment, the film goes soft when all but one of the gang are captured. Fleeing England, Baker sends Pettet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: English Muffing | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Seconded Florida's James Haley: "Load a boat full of them and take them 500 miles out into the ocean and handcuff them, chain the anchor around their necks and throw them overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Burning Issue | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

Lawyers for the states and the Justice Department implored the court to the contrary. Don't expand the limited Escobedo ruling in ways that handcuff police interrogation, they said. Don't forget society's rights and Benjamin Cardozo's words: "Justice, though due the accused, is due the accuser also." Don't abandon "totality of circumstances" in judging whether confessions are free or coerced. Don't assume that "focus" is workable as an objective test. Don't expect judges to reconstruct just when the focus point was reached or whether the suspect really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Concern About Confessions | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...Secretariat and the Council of Ministers-a tripod power base that Khrushchev alone previously enjoyed. As chairman of the Party and State Control Committee, Shelepin is also the watchdog of Russia's entire economic and administrative life, and his chairmanship of the State Control Committee gives him handcuff control over party apparatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: A Treatment for Tularemia & A Promotion for the Cops | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

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