Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Geter's fellow engineers at E-Systems were shocked by the verdict and sentence and convinced that Geter was a victim of racism. A dozen of them, mostly whites, organized a defense committee and raised more than $11,000 in the young engineer's support. "This is not a tightly knit organization," declared Engineer Wendell Crom, "just a bunch of people who know the man is not guilty." The N.A.A.C.P., alerted by a South Carolina State College dean, was also outraged and dispatched Lawyer Hairston to aid in the defense. He and court-appointed Attorney Edwin Sigel scored...
...retaliation by suspects or their associates. The cases of fearful witnesses that come to public attention usually involve mobsters or major drug dealers. But the problem of intimidation is much broader, encompassing countless burglaries, robberies, rapes and incidents of domestic violence that police never even hear about because victims and witnesses are afraid to report them. "These are not flashy cases," says John Stein, spokesman for the National Organization for Victim Assistance. "They are mundane, low-visibility cases, typically involving family violence." Witnesses and victims who are poor particularly "li ve at the mercy of tough, lawless individuals," says Atlanta...
...national statistics delineate the extent of the problem, but New York City's Victim Services Agency studied 109 victims and witnesses in Brooklyn who had been threatened by suspects they were to testify against. The 1981 report found that 23% were attacked, either directly by assault, or indirectly when their cars were vandalized or their houses burglarized. Police rearrested almost none of the intimidators. The number of uncooperative witnesses is especially high when narcotics are involved. In Florida, by one state law-enforcement official's estimate, 30% of witnesses in major drug cases disappear, having fled or been...
...faculty felt that the administration responded trivially to a very serious violation of civil behavior," said June Axxin, president of the UPenn faculty senate, adding. "The young men involved were able to continue their education. She [the victim...
...recommend that the university fulfill its moral responsibilities to the victim by meeting her medical, legal, and educational expenses," the report added...