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...workable crime deterrents?Wilson has installed an elaborate computer system that pinpoints high-crime blocks for more efficient patrolling. In the most turbulent areas, he has increased the saturation of foot patrolmen. Using two-way radios ($875 each), officers can question the computers about a suspect's record and get an answer in one minute. Wilson pays radio dispatchers bonuses for instant action; one man recently got $350 for particularly fast descriptions that snagged five fleeing robbers. He also monitors the traffic on his own police radio and curtly demands written reports when he hears dispatchers or patrolmen responding...
...rookies in training are black. But, unlike other police chiefs, he has downplayed mere public relations. He knows only too well that a chief's lectures to community groups can be quickly undercut by incidents like one last year in which a white policeman fatally shot a black robbery suspect. The victim turned out to be an undercover...
Coping with its own backlog, the Supreme Court also issued significant decisions on the rights of suspects. PRELIMINARY HEARINGS. The fate of a suspect may be shaped at a preliminary hearing, where a judge weighs the available evidence in order to decide whether to hold or release the accused. Last week the court ruled that suspects brought before such preliminary hearings must have lawyers present...
What then can I say to you at the end of your college years? It must be, I think, that neither unreasoning zealotry nor despair is an acceptable attitude for Harvard men. You have seen much of one and, I suspect, have at least occasionally been tempted by the other. It has been said that your generation is the first in America to have grown up without optimism. This is a sad commentary if true. Personally I do not believe it is, or at least that it need...
...defense department, was designed to use computers for basic research into social science methodology. Radicals charged that the product of the computer research would be used for counter-insurgency operations. Liberal members of the Faculty joined the protest. John Womack Jr., assistant professor of History, said, "I suspect that the people getting the most use out of the Project will be the Defense Department, and at this moment in American politics, I don't trust Defense to make the use of it that I would like...