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CRIME Championed $30-billion crime law enacted in 1994, with funding for 100,000 new police officers and death penalties for 60 types of heinous crimes. Favors trying violent youth as adults and signed law requiring neighborhood notification when convicted sex offender moves...
...intents and purposes, Proposition 187, the magnum opus of the xenophobic crusade against Hispanic illegal immigrants, is dead, slowly wasting away in the California court system. What has happened since the time this heinous document was thrust into the face of all Latinos, whether they are citizens or not? Surprisingly, very little. Despite the outright fear and racism inherent in Proposition 187's rhetoric, Hispanics as a whole have been slow to react to it. This silence has allowed Proposition 187 to spawn continued support of its message in its brief and tumultuous life, most recently in the form...
Only the most brutal of these crimes are reported on local or national news, while the perennial sexual violence assaulting women is ignored. It is true that many states, including Massachusetts, have lately adapted stricter laws to deal with the perpetrators of these heinous crimes. Today, California has even decided to chemically castrate the offenders. While rape reform laws are needed, this is a far cry from what must be done if we are to transform a culture that fosters and condones sexual violence against women. As Emilie Buchwald comments in Transforming a Rape Culture, "Editorial responses call for more...
...medical term, but a common expression for "mentally ill") is arbitrarily applied to a variety of criminals, from terrorists to tyrants. This stigmatizes mental illness and inhibits our understanding of the individual's motivation. Many people would rather not believe that sane people can and do commit heinous acts. The majority of the mentally ill, as with most populations, are not dangerous to others...
...shortage of jilted husbands out there. As Manhattan divorce lawyer Eleanor Alter, who represented Mia Farrow in her proceedings against Woody Allen, puts it, "In most divorces, the fault is not so unequal. Two people have a drink together and they misbehave. Two people drift apart. These aren't heinous things. That's life...