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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...