Word: suspectibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...L.A.P.D. Red tape envelops every police department, but few can compete with New York's for sheer bulk. A New York cop who arrests a teen-age drug addict must fill out well over 100 forms?enough to make any but the most conscientious think twice before stopping a suspect. And the cop on the beat still uses the same weapons he did 100 years ago?the billy club and the gun?and often wields them with Dickensian abandon...
Some scholars see the next few years as a period of consolidation in which the Fortas court will refine and clarify the sometimes cluttered landmarks of the Warren era. Others, like Yale's Bickel, suspect that the Fortas court may have even bigger problems, exert even a greater influence on the nation...
Impact of Technology. At least a few of the court's concerns during the next decade or so are visible, if only dimly. "The Warren court readjusted the balance between authority and the individual," says Columbia Professor Alan Westin. "I suspect in the next decade the Supreme Court will have to think in terms of the impact of large-scale technology on the individual, increasingly in terms of privacy." Westin, like many others, sees much of the court's recent activism as a result of inaction by the other two branches of Government. Says he: "When the nation...
...decisions on the legal rights of people accused of federal offenses. While the court held in the Miranda case that a defendant must be warned of his rights before evidence is admissible, the Crime Act says that such warnings are unnecessary as long as any confession made by a suspect is deemed voluntary. The bill also permits police to hold a suspect up to six hours-and longer in some cases-without an arraignment. Noting that these provisions apply only to federal cases, Johnson snowed his displeasure by telling the Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover that federal suspects should...
...freedom that one hears in some gospel songs, for example, and in jazz. In all jazz, and especially in the blues, there is something tart and ironic, authoritative and double edged. White Americans do not understand the depths out of which such an ironic tenacity comes but they suspect that the force is sensual. To be sensual, I think; is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of living to the breaking of bread...