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Thus the diversion of some (not all) resources back to foot-patrols would not place the populace at any increased risk and could aid significantly the sense of order and safety in a neighborhood. The emphasis on mobility, as Charles Silberman pointed out in Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice "keeps patrol officers encapsulated in their cars, unable to get to know, or be known by, the people on their beat." Like citizen patrols, the return to foot-patrols by uniformed police officers could make the neighborhood the focus of a renewed and welcomed presence of law and order...
...America's all too familiar crime clock ticks faster and faster. Every 24 minutes, a murder is committed somewhere in the U.S. Every ten seconds a house is burgled, every seven minutes a woman is raped. There is some truth in the aphorism of Charles Silberman, author of Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice, that "crime is as American as Jesse James." But there is also something new about the way that Americans are killing, robbing, raping and assaulting one another. The curse of violent crime is rampant not just in the ghettos of depressed cities, where it always has been...
...history of art has always been speckled with digs and jabs by artists at real or imagined foes. But none of the victims-not even Picasso's distorted women-actually took their outrage or wounded vanity to court until 1975, in New York City, when two artists, Jacob Silberman and Anthony Siani, sued a colleague, Paul Georges, for libel. The reason: Georges' painting The Mugging of the Muse (right), which includes two sinister figures wearing masks that, the plaintiffs claimed, were their own faces. Complained Siani: "It lessens me in front of my peers because if an artist...
...pull things off the tax rolls as a tax dodge," Robert Silberman, vice president for property management at Harvard Real Estate Corporation said yesterday. "If we convert something, it is because the University perceives a real need for it," he added...
Highly readable and hugely convincing, Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice may be the most important book on the topic published this year. Silberman has seized the issue from the troglodytes and returned it to the liberal metier, made it possible to think not only clearly but humanely' about crime. Buy it and read it, and tell your congressman to do the same. It's a lot cheaper than a German shepherd...