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...force of 65,000, serves as Ky's eyes and ears-and sometimes fist. It was Loan who cracked down on the Buddhists during last spring's riots in Hué and Danang. He has taken over control of Saigon's sloppy port security, sharply reducing theft and graft, is currently using his National Police to clean up An Khanh, a shantytown across the Saigon River that seethes with smugglers and bandits. Southerners accuse him of building a police state. "Hell, no," he says. "We don't even have enough gasoline to keep our Jeeps...
...drove a two-toned 1954 Oldsmobile. Told that it was all a mistake, Simmons spent the next day sightseeing and swimming only 50 miles from the border. He might better have headed for home. While he relaxed, the police learned that he had been convicted of burglary and auto theft in the U.S. Besides, he was technically a fugitive from a Texas mental hospital, and he had signed his tourist's card with his brother's name (because the car was registered in that name). Most important, Mexico was crying for an arrest...
...other task forces, the group on science and technology plans to recommend new methods of preventing crime, locating and returning stolen goods, improving communication, and processing information about offenders. At a recent meeting of the National Symposium of Science and Criminal Justice, speakers told of ideas for making automobiles theft proof, computer linked alarms that would pinpoint unseen law violations, non-lethal gases to neutralize intruders and chemicals that would color a fleeing vehicle or leave a burglar with a distinctive, unshakable odor...
...about how to allocate our resources in response. For example, if we should find that there are many times more larcenies and housebreakings than are reported, that fact might affect judgments about the number and deployment of policemen, laws relating to locks and alarms, or the deductible clauses in theft insurance policies. It might also encourage us to try to strike harder at the elaborate system by which stolen goods are marketed. Of course, we might decide not to do any of these things, but at least our decisions would be less blind than they are today...
...continuing source of worry -- has barely kept pace with the overall population increase, and I believe we can assume that reporting is quite complete on homicides and unambiguous rapes. The dramatic relative increase in reported rates has taken place in the property crimes, particularly larceny, burglary and auto theft. To identify and understand changes in the danger the public faces, and to allocate preventive resources, it is necessary that we break crime trends into their component parts before seeking to draw conclusions from them...