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Wearing red berets as a badge of office, the original 13 went into action last Feb. 13, with three teams patrolling what is known as the Muggers' Express, the No. 4 IRT train from Woodlawn in The Bronx to Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn "We stopped a mugging the first night a 167th and River Avenue," one patroller remembers. "We asked the conductor to signal ahead to the next station, where we handed the mugger over to the transit police." A week later, they suffered their first casualty...
Many Americans harbor an unwholesome and even dangerous contempt for the justice system. Neither criminals nor victims have much faith in its workings: the one class does not fear it much, and the other does not trust it. A mugger leaves a victim crippled, life blighted, and bound to ruinous expenses for treatment. Through plea bargaining and parole indulgences, the attacker emerges from his "punishment" in a matter of months or less, to resume his career. The social contract gets badly tattered in its passage through such a system...
...every day, remember? But Bronson has never been one to take pointless injustice lying down, nossir. So he takes the law into his own hands, and the fans go wild. No kidding: I saw this movie on New York's upper west side, and every time Bronson popped another mugger or bag-snatcher in the chest the audience gave him a standing ovation. Which is to say that "Death Wish" will cater to your basest instincts. But it's cathartic, you'll say, harmless, really. Tell me about it. "Liz," the slick soft-core porn feature playing downtown, has more...
...policeman collars a mugger on a busy downtown street, but in his haste to make the arrest he forgets to take the names of any witnesses. A burglar is nabbed just as he is leaving the scene of the crime, but while the case against him seems powerful, his loot somehow gets lost in the labyrinth of police headquarters, and he must be set free. A woman catches a second-story man in her house, engages him in conversation, gives him a drink to get his fingerprints. When he flees she calls the police, who refuse to dust the glass...
...that it? Or was it that-along with countless cops, cabbies, countermen and other normally curmudgeonly denizens of Convention City-the muggers, pickpockets and prostitutes who normally infest the area were on their best behavior? To be sure, the lone Wallace delegate in the Texas delegation lost $500 to a mugger on a fashionable street bordering Central Park late one night. Some Oklahoma delegates had their Berkshire Hotel rooms rifled, but as one of them said: "It could have happened in any city." An Ohioan chased a burglar trying to break into his car, caught him, and returned to find...