Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shown some of America's greatest cities under siege. It has shown Negroes carrying out loot from burned-out stores, sometimes while policemen and troops looked the other way. This sight, perhaps more than any other, contributes to the belief that Negroes are basically indolent and immoral, that law enforcement in the U.S. has broken down, that the black man is getting preferential treatment. That conclusion is directly contrary to the hallowed Anglo-Saxon tradition of property rights. The fact that mass arrests are not always feasible in chaotic conditions is ignored. The fact that indiscriminate shooting...
...explains why 2,000 residents of Watts recently petitioned their council representatives for better police protection. James Jones, Negro owner of a Washington steak house, is not alone in lamenting: "There are a lot of black fools in this world. If they are the chief violators of the law, then they are the ones who ought to be punished...
...Negro's exposure to black criminals makes him all the more indignant over the racial connotations of law-and-order rhetoric. William V. Patrick, head of New Detroit, a peace-keeping committee formed after the riot, protests: "It's a horrible phrase, a euphemism for racial repression. First you had slavery. Then you had Jim Crow laws. Then it was called 'separate but equal.' Now it is called 'law and order...
...reported a 66% increase in crime, taking population growth into consideration. The comparable figure for the '60s so far is 71%. While Nixon and Wallace charge that Supreme Court decisions bearing on eliciting confessions and the suspect's right to counsel have hindered law enforcement, studies conducted by the Los Angeles district attorney's office, the Yale Law Review and the Georgetown University Law Center show that this...
...attack the Democratic Administration for "grossly exaggerating" the relationship between poverty and crime. Nixon insists that doubling the conviction rate would accomplish more than quadrupling the antipoverty effort. Despite pressure from Republican liberals like Senator Edward Brooke, he is far less specific about social justice than he is about law and order...