Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Property crime, such as car theft and larceny, has declined 18.4 percent since 1995, although the rate of auto theft did not significantly decline from 1996 to 1997, the report shows...
Drug arrests and street robbery all saw increases in the first nine months of 1997 in that area, although car theft was down nearly 18 percent, the report shows...
SHOCK THERAPY With all the politicians getting tough on crime, it was only a matter of time before car-theft victims got into the act. Now Air Taser's Auto Taser, a $250 steering-wheel lock, lets vengeful car owners dole out their own brand of punishment against would-be thieves. If break-in artists ignore the Auto Taser's wailing alarm, they're greeted with a 50,000-volt "nonlethal" electric shock. Talk about a sting operation...
...like "Blondie," the Philadelphia police officer who is guilty of racism, lying, theft, brutality and cover-ups [CRIME, Dec. 15], tarnishes the badges of all policemen. The majority of our nation's 700,000 law-enforcement officers are honest, hardworking individuals who are willing to put their lives on the line. Someone like Blondie should never have been given a badge. If Americans want to end police brutality and corruption, we must re-evaluate hiring practices. Last year an applicant for a police force was rejected because he scored too high on the entrance exam. All too often applicants...
Chinaman, a Blondie confederate, even rationalizes theft: "We didn't use our badges as camouflage just to rob anyone we met who we felt like robbing. We took from drug dealers. The way I look at it, that money wasn't theirs anyway, and we needed it more than they did, or than the city did, which was who we were supposed to turn...