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...first time since it began publishing 33 years ago, the Gallup poll reports that crime is the nation's No. 1 domestic concern. And "crime in the streets"?a catchall phrase for everything from muggings to insurrections???may well have displaced Viet Nam as the prime issue in the presidential campaign. The FBI reckons that urban crime jumped 88% in the first seven years of the decade?and 17% over 1967 in the first three months of 1968. Granting a sizable margin of inaccuracy in reporting, the figures are probably a fair approximation of the facts. In response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: POLICE: THE THIN BLUE LINE | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

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