Word: scofflaws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preschool education, all on the grounds of crime prevention. She set up a one-stop child-support center, with everything from counselors and law-enforcement officials to medical personnel for drawing blood to confirm paternity. She was one of the first prosecutors around to come down hard on scofflaw spouses who skipped out on child support, prompting a disgruntled father to scrawl threatening graffiti on a sign near her home. Some critics charge that in her zeal she went too far; in 1984 her office came under fire for forcing confessions and railroading defendants in a high-profile child-abuse...
Such rebellions might also be called nascent anarchy. Authority in the east, ubiquitous until the revolution, has all but disappeared, and what is left is ineffectual. The scofflaw is pervasive. Drivers in newly purchased Mercedes and Audis routinely ignore speed limits even when overtaking the rare police vehicle. One reason for the lack of law enforcement is that eastern policemen are unfamiliar with the federal laws now in effect. The problem is compounded by a lack of manpower: thousands of police quit their jobs before unification or were dismissed because of party or Stasi connections...