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Wilson notes that even if crime were caused by poverty, "society cannot feasibly make more than modest changes in the employment prospects of young men. Job-creation takes a long time, when it can be done at all..." Deterrence, then, is the answer. From the cop on the street to the judge on the bench, the law-enforcement establishment must flex its muscles enough to show potential criminals that the costs of crime and the likelihood of punishment are high...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Debunking Deterrence | 10/4/1983 | See Source »

WHEN UNIVERSITY POLICE CHIEF Saul L. Chafin officially departed Friday to take a similar post at Vanderbilt University. Harvard lost the best cop it's ever had. University administrators, and more importantly the police officers themselves, credit Chafin with a renaissance in the department during his five-year term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Picking A Top Cop | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...American role to play policeman around the world," a role seldom disputed by Americans before Viet Nam. "No," Reagan said, "it is not." But a moment later, with explanatory references to potential cutoffs of sea lanes and of strategic minerals and oil, he did sound something like an international cop. "[The U.S. role] is to recognize that the threats can be widespread, the threats to our security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing the Flag | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...beat seven white Democrats in last year's primary and win the general election in a district that is almost 80% white. In Congress, the well-tailored bachelor is careful to serve the needs of his white constituents but, notes a colleague, "I've never seen him cop out on issues of concern to blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Faces for an Old Struggle | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...what any father would have done, and he shouldn't be charged." Williams, a truck driver and avowed street minister, was arrested for first-degree assault. He spent one night in jail; a sympathetic judge freed him the next day on an unsecured $10,000 bond. "Cop after cop came up to him in the cell and congratulated him," said Paul J. Cambria, a prominent Buffalo attorney who is defending Williams. Said Buffalo Mayor James Griffin: "Dean should be thrown in jail, and if a judge lets him out he should be run out of town along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Sentence | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

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