Word: lawmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sheet lists crimes ranging from purse snatching to kidnaping -- has testified against at least a dozen California inmates who he claimed confessed their guilt to him. With information he provided, authorities have unearthed the bodies of murder victims and prosecuted a prison gang leader for murder. In exchange, lawmen accorded him special privileges, including early release, during his frequent returns to the slammer. "Every time I come in here," White boasts, "I inform and get back...
...White, 31, has squealed again -- on himself. He confessed that at least some of the information he passed on to lawmen was nothing but a pack of lies. While dismayed law-enforcement officials looked on, White demonstrated how easy it is for a would-be stoolie to concoct a false confession simply by using a telephone in the prison chaplain's office. Identifying himself as a bail bondsman, White called the sheriff's document-control center and got an accused murderer's case number and date of arrest. Then he phoned the district attorney's records bureau, identifying himself...
MISSISSIPPI BURNING. As G-men investigating racially motivated murders, Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe become entrenched in the civil rights movement. From the black community's frightened silence to the local lawmen's self-righteous denials, director Alan Parker has powerfully reimagined a time and place...
...distinguishes this film is Parker's acute reimagining of a time and place. The frightened silence of the black community (and the astonishing courage of some of its members); the sullen resentment of "outsiders" from the white community; the alternately bland, sneering and self-righteous denials by the local lawmen that any crime was committed at all; the steadily mounting campaign of violence intended to terrorize everyone into complicity in this lie -- all of this is handled with a deft and compulsive power...
Flanked by a posse of lawmen, some sporting ten-gallon hats, Lloyd Bentsen cheerfully introduced his running mate. The Law Enforcement Officers Association of Texas had gathered at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas last week to endorse the Governor of Massachusetts and certify that he is not a patsy on crime. Bentsen, silver-haired and presidential, surveyed the audience with his mild and benign gaze and then said casually, "Mike, have you rented a hotel room here tonight?" Dukakis appeared slightly mystified but nodded his head. "Good. In some people's minds that makes you a Texan...