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...CRIME. To counter the city's never-ending crime-a theft every three minutes, an assault every twelve, a rape every six hours, a murder every 14-' Lindsay proposed to enlarge the police force and build a "massive mobile patrol system" by doubling the number of patrol cars; a squad car would patrol each block in high-crime areas every two minutes...
Many experts gravely doubt that law-enforcement agencies even now have either the legal or technical weapons needed to combat violence, theft and organized crime at today's intensified levels. At the heart of the controversy over the court lies the danger that the judicial pendulum may have swung too far toward protection of the individual criminal, too far away from protection of society...
...that life was crisscrossed with theft like an old coat with grey threads." See BOOKS, A Legend Exhumed...
...Nizhni Novgorod-it now bears his name-Gorky worked the river steamboats, reading Tom Jones even as he learned to steal. He hung out with gypsies, slung bales with stevedores, worked with men who toiled "like blind worms" in a basement bakery. "I saw that life was crisscrossed with theft," he wrote, "like an old coat with grey threads." Nothing worked right: even when he tried suicide, he succeeded only in shooting himself through the lung...
Lady Bird's reaction was reasonable enough. But her aides seemed to be ready to treat the incident like the theft of an atomic secret. Anyone who would abscond with such a letter was obviously "untrustworthy," Liz told the press, and the whole affair might be a "security matter." Two Secret Service men were dispatched to Hamilton's office to extract the name of the letter seller...