Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education has weaned him away from the ideal of "self" and toward the ideal of "awareness and contribution" as regards the problems of society, the graduate is looking for a career in which he can commit himself to help solve these problems. Police work will give him that chance. Law-enforcement executives and college placement bureaus should plan programs toward this goal. Perhaps then the two poles of "cop" and "professional" can be reconciled...
...Much of the hatred of cops comes not from their attempts to enforce criminal law but from the use of sheriffs' uniformed deputies to perform the dirty work required for the economic discrimination against and exploitation of the poor. It is in this capacity that they are imperialists in the ghetto...
...Springfield Avenue was nearly deserted. While a ghetto battle raged in Cleveland (see following story), the anniversary of two of the worst riots in American history went virtually unnoticed. But if the ashes of Detroit and Newark have grown cold, the emotions they raised clearly have not. Law and order now looms as the No. 1 issue of 1968, even overshadowing a war that keeps more than 500,000 American servicemen in combat in Southeast Asia...
Life to Death. Whatever their varied reasons, the judges' unequivocal conclusion affects far more military men than SP4 Anderson. For military law changes in time of war. The maximum penalty for desertion, for example, rises from life imprisonment to death. Assaulting or disobeying a superior also becomes punishable by death. While the Anderson decision applies only to military courts, its effective marshaling of precedents is likely to persuade the civilian courts to agree that the U.S. is indeed in a war-even if Congress never does get around to declaring...
...Charles Street corner of the Boston Common, there were maybe 150 young people Sunday night-Monday morning at 12:30 a.m.--all of them breaking the law. The curfew on the Boston Common, set a month ago and liberalized a week ago, is midnight. On Saturday, 65 hippies had been arrested for defying the curfew, and Sunday looked like more of the same...