Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whereas the South once accepted public lynchings as a community sport, the white racists who still kill Negroes are now increasingly prosecuted and punished. In three decades, the U.S. incidence of murder and robbery has decreased relative to the population by 30%. Says Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang, president of the American Society of Criminology: "Contrary to the rise in public fear, crimes of violence are not significantly increasing...
Unfortunately, that very fear has a way of increasing violence. Fearful citizens ignore the victim's cry for help; by shunning parks and other public places, they free muggers to attack isolated pedestrians. The U.S. mind is haunted by wanton multiple murder-16 people killed by a sniper in Austin, eight nurses slain by a demented drifter in Chicago. It is hard to convince the fearful that 80% of U.S. murders (half involve alcohol) are committed by antagonistic relatives or acquaintances, not strangers...
...above all, there is white fear of Negro attacks. While the Negro arrest rate for murder is ten times that among whites, most of the violent crimes committed by Negroes are against other Negroes. Of 172 Washington, D.C., murders in a recent two-year period, for example, only twelve were interracial. Yet fear that Negro riots are leading to some ghastly racial holocaust is fueling a vast, scandalously uncontrolled traffic in firearms that has equipped one-half of U.S. homes with 50 million guns, largely for "self-defense." All this is rationalized by virtue of the Second Amendment "right...
Riots in the wake of Martin Luther King's murder started a new exodus of business from the ghettos. In Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati and some other cities, many merchants whose stores were looted, vandalized and burned started pulling out. Most of them say they are leaving for good. "You can't get insurance around here," says Christ Boulahanis, whose hot-dog stand on Chicago's West Roosevelt Road was a total casualty. Near by, William Sheldon, the elderly owner of Sheldon Radio & TV shop, has nothing left after doing business in the same store...
Congress' reaction to the 1932 kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son was shock, rage and a stiff law: "Whoever knowingly transports in interstate commerce any person who has been unlawfully kidnaped and held for ransom or otherwise, shall be punished by death if the kidnaped person has not been liberated unharmed and if the verdict of the jury shall so recommend." Last week, on the basis of the jury verdict last clause, the Supreme Court struck down the Lindbergh law's death-penalty provision...