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...ironic! One convicted murderer is executed [April 21]-the first in a year-for killing a policeman doing his duty to protect the public, and tear-stained protesters mourn, an Episcopal bishop asks that church bells be tolled to show penitence for this "legal murder," and the American Civil Liberties Union charges that this is cruel and unusual punishment. In this same period of time, how many innocent people lost their lives through the actions of criminals who feel they have the right to rape, mug, steal and kill without consideration of what happens to their victims and without acknowledging...
...Fremont, Ohio, a middle-aged husband recently went berserk and tried to beat his wife to death. When the police arrived, he threatened to shoot anyone who interfered. In that common situation, many a U.S. policeman might have whipped out his own gun and shot first, even if the suspect regrettably died in the process. Instead, one Fremont policeman squeezed off a stream of tear-gas-like liquid that hit the crazed husband in the face and instantly brought him to his knees, stunned, docile-and alive...
Moral Question. A century ago, any felony could be punished by death. Today that is no longer true. And yet, says New York Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary, "the policeman can shoot to kill if he reasonably believes that the person at whom he shot was committing a felony or escaping from a felony. The rule raises a substantial moral question: Is it proper to take the life of a fleeing felon who, if caught, tried and convicted, could not be executed?" Answering his own question, Leary has just promulgated a new department rule that requires his 28,000 policemen...
...order. But the fact is that in "hard core" cases the social agencies, by their own admission, have failed. As a result, the police have a problem: the ghetto youth, whose life has repeatedly taught him to respect only physical power, has only limited respect for the powerless policeman. Part of the answer to gang crime, then, is a reevaluation of the "be tough" policy. Putting these youths on the receiving end of police bullets or nightstick often opens their eyes to right and wrong. The hard facts of the situation require that, oftentimes, gang guns will have...
...when they wind up on the raw end of a police "deal" --exchanging their guns, for example, for reduced charges in court; only the charges don't get reduced. The line separating "be tough" tactics from the "more enlightened" approach is naturally fuzzy; no one, even the experienced policeman, can always draw it neatly...