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More important, the President's proposals would have virtually no impact on the kinds of crimes that Americans most fear: assault, robbery and rape, as ! well as virtually all murders and most drug offenses. Fighting those crimes is almost exclusively a state and local responsibility. A mere 118 of the 47,700 inmates held in federal penitentiaries have been convicted of murder. More than 83% of federal prisoners are serving time for such offenses as counterfeiting, embezzlement, tax evasion and nonviolent drug offenses...
After Gloria Williams' 15-year-old son was accused of taking part in the gang rape of a twelve-year-old girl, Los Angeles police paid her a visit. They discovered what deputy city attorney Robert Ferber described as "a museum for gang memorabilia." There were gang graffiti on a bedroom's walls. There were snapshots of Williams posing with teenagers making gang recognition signs. Another photo caught her youngest son, 8, pointing a pistol at the camera...
...crusades with self-promotional relish. "In Phoenix," he relates, "I killed an antiabortion bill in the house by one vote, going on the air a couple of hours before and giving out the phone numbers of undecided legislators. I also managed to put together a spousal-rape...
...famous confrontation between the missionary and Sadie Thompson. Or that discussions of Samoa's moral -- and cultural -- identity continue as heatedly as the much publicized debate between Margaret Mead's classic vision of pastoral innocence (Coming of Age in Samoa) and Derek Freeman's revisionist account of violence and rape (Margaret Mead and Samoa -- The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth). "Being bilingual and bicultural doesn't mean you have to be schizophrenic," says Bernie Oordt, who taught at a local high school for twelve years. "As long as you have a basic bedrock, a strong system of values...
...Think of any problem on a college campus--a date rape, a racial incident or a brawl. Most of the time, this will be [related to] drinking," Wechsler says. "This is not strictly cause and effect. We cannot conclude that alcohol causes these problems. It could be that the same type of person who drinks gets into this type of trouble," Wechsler says. "But it certainly contributes...