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...handle many tasks, such as clerical work and traffic direction, that elsewhere sworn policemen usually perform, thus freeing all but a few regulars for active law-enforcement duty. An elite team of 225, known as the "Top Group," has been organized for special assignments, such as nabbing organized car-theft rings or stickup artists. A "community radio watch," composed of cabbies and truck drivers who have two-way radios, is being formed to alert police to violations. Eventually, Reddin guesses, the radio watchers could add 60,000 pairs of eyes without any cost to the police-surveillance network. Another laborsaving...
Criminologists wonder just how good an idea it is for Everyman to keep a pistol in the dresser drawer for self-defense. Aside from the moral issue of whether a burglar deserves to be executed for the relatively minor crime of property theft, there is the practical point that if the armed citizen pulls a gun, he is likelier to get shot than is the generally more experienced burglar. Moreover, two-thirds of criminal assaults and three-fourths of homicides result from quarrels among family or friends. U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Ralph Greenson says: "Guns not only fail to resolve aggression, they...
...King, the city occupied a high standing in all the indexes of violence. Among U.S. cities of 500,000 to 1,000,000 population, Washington ranks first in robberies per 1,000 people, second in murders, aggravated assaults and housebreaking, third in total offenses, fifth in larceny and auto theft, ninth in rape. Since two-thirds of Washington's 849,000 people are black, and often live amid squalor, it is hardly surprising that most of the crimes are committed by the Negro poor-against other Negroes...
...using Rousseau's "natural society" for his lamplight, Proudhon wrote in passionate paradoxes. Authority, he said, fosters not order but disorder; laws create injustice; government leads to slavery. To his most famous question, framed in a book called What Is Property?, Proudhon answered in a single word: "Theft." Thus defining man's social institutions in terms of their abuses, he found the new ideal: anarchy, or ungoverned natural order. It was well before Darwin and Freud had drastically changed the sentimental view of nature...
Army's most recent theft occurred in last week's outdoors Heptagonals in New Haven, when the West Point tracksters edged Harvard out of a second place finish by a mere three points. Yale surprised everyone by winning the Heps with 71 points. Army was second with 70, while Harvard took a disappointing third with...