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Before the stop and frisk law was passed, a thief could sometimes beat arrest in New York even if a cop caught him carrying concealed loot-unless the cop reasonably believed beforehand that a theft had been committed. But even the new New York law is not necessarily constitutional. If detention really means arrest, then it must meet the standards of probable cause. And recent Supreme Court decisions indicate that state courts must exclude evidence seized during searches accompanying arrests made without probable cause. In short, a search cannot be justified by its fruits alone...
...treasure chest of Islam's rarities, among them Mohammed's personal belongings, Topkapi was the scene of the crime in the current motion-picture thriller of the same name, which possibly inspired the recent theft of the Star of India from New York's American Museum of Natural History. It is no mean tribute to the Met that the men accused of the burglary first cased the Met-and gave...
...charming but light-fingered people, Neapolitans relieve their guests of everything from cars and clothes to wallets and women. The police labor mightily but in vain. Last week 110 men accused of stealing hundreds of cars languished in jail as they awaited trial. Even in their absence, the theft of cars continues at a brisk thousand a month. One two-car Neapolitan family had its Fiat stolen in the morning, its brand-new Alfa Romeo in the afternoon. A Roman visitor found his car where he had parked it the night before-only the motor was gone...
...realize that to pilfer more than $171 million from Clark Field in nine months would come to about $630,000 per day? I figure it would require at least 100 large trucks per day just to haul it away-hardly pilferage; more like grand theft...
...worse than the 1951 cribbing uproar at West Point, where 90 cadets (including 43 football players) were expelled for exchanging exam questions. That involved an informal, illegal help-your-buddy system. But the ugly Air Force incident at Colorado Springs was a clear case of common, profit-motivated theft...