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...MORNING OF JUNE 17, CRIMINAL defense attorney Robert Shapiro informed O.J. Simpson that he would be arrested for the murders of his ex-wife and Ronald Goldman. "Mr. Simpson looked depressed and under a lot of pressure," said Henry Lee, who arrived that morning with fellow criminologist Michael Baden at the house of Simpson buddy Robert Kardashian to start sifting through evidence. The last either scientist had seen of Simpson, he had gone upstairs to say goodbye to his family; the next thing they knew, the suspect had vanished with his friend A.C. Cowlings. According to a confidential interoffice memorandum...
Some experts also believe Giuliani's crackdown on petty offenders, like squeegeemen who hassle motorists for change at stoplights or graffiti artists who vandalize the subways, has worked to ease more serious offenses. Explains criminologist Lawrence Sherman of the University of Maryland: "Ironically, the best way to reduce murder may be to make lots of arrests for spitting on the sidewalk, simply as a way to deter criminals from carrying concealed weapons." Indeed, gun homicides in New York have declined 41% from the 1994 rate...
...Simpson attorney Robert Shapiro, apologizing for distributing fortune cookies from a fictitious "Hang Fung" restaurant to celebrate defense victories over embattled Asian-American criminologist Dennis Fung...
Wilson played an unusual role in the project's history. It was initiated in 1993 when cops advising Justice placed it at the top of their wish list. But what jump-started it was an article by Wilson in the New York Times. The influential criminologist cited trials in Indianapolis and Kansas City that suggested that violent crime can be cut drastically through campaigns to locate and confiscate illegal guns. But the Fourth Amendment prohibits frisking someone for illegal weapons without a reasonable suspicion that he or she is armed and dangerous. Wilson mused that if technology could pinpoint...
...Zimmerman told a congressional committee in 1993. Such surveillance, he warned, ``can be done easily, routinely, automatically and undetectably on a grand scale.'' Other experts argue that the government's case is vastly overstated. ``The number of crimes in which encryption is going to be used is infinitesimal,'' says criminologist Jim Thomas. Advocates on both sides of the debate argue with conviction that their view is in the best interests of a healthy democratic society. To be sure, safety and stability remain important components, but so too is privacy. Citizens who have watched as computers have made possible all manner...