Word: lock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chafin said there was no sign of forced entry into the library or into either of the rooms where the coin machine and safe are located. "The building was under lock and key," he said...
CRIME IS the most visceral of issues: small wonder that the Right has almost exclusively coopted it. But hip-booted, lock-'em-up demagoguery has hardly stemmed a crime wave that keeps two out of every five citizens behind locked doors after dark. America, surfeited with crime, looks for a real solution. Charles Silberman's Criminal Violence, Crimal Justice strips away the cant, provides the hard facts, and finally makes it possible to think about, instead of react to, the problem of crime...
...James Burke from the 9th District hobbles up to the podium and starts talking softly into the microphone. Nobody knows he's up there, or maybe they do, but the dull hum of conversation doesn't subside during Burke's impromptu endorsement speech for King. A real lock 'em up and shoot 'em speech--Burke tells the convention why King should be governor. "Imagine those people selling drugs to our kids in junior high school. We need a man who will deal with these people. Look at the murders--why just during the past week...What are we coming...
Basically, King is about as conservative as they come. Right down the line he eagerly tells people he can create jobs (so what if it makes a little noise or messes up the environment), he can control crime by locking everyone up or executing the murderers, and he can lower taxes (although he isn't going to take "band-aids" away from anyone.). Frank Hatch, being the nice guy that he is, hasn't come out with a strong enough attack plan. He's too honest to tell people he will cut property taxes by $500 million; he points...
...pouring billions into social welfare programs, and systematically attacking discrimination, during the '60s and early '70s, violent crime was booming. Since 1960 the rate of robbery, murder and rape has almost tripled. Lately it has become fashionable to target the culprits, not the causes?simply to catch criminals and lock them...