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BOWTO STOP CRIME HOWTO STOP CRIME Chief Anthony V. Bouza (Ret.) Springer Science+B usiness Media, LLC Llb~a~y of Congress Catalog1ng-ln-Publ1cat1on Data Bouza, Anthony V. How to stop crime I Anthony V. Bouza. p. cm. Includes b1bl1ograph1cal references and index. 1. Crime prevention. 2. Criminal justice. Administration of. I. Tltle. HV7431.B68 1993 364.4--dc20 92-43231 CIP ISBN 978-0-306-44472-2 ISBN 978-1-4899-6483-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-6483-0 © 1993 Anthony V. Bouza Originally published by Plenum US in 1993. Softcover reprint of the bardeover 1st edition 1993 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher To Virginia PREFACE Is the great American experiment dying? Even a casual listener to the sounds ernerging from the body politic during the 1992 presidential contest would detect deep, troubling rumbles of concern. lt is a fatuous conceit and a ridiculous presumption to assert that I wrote this book to save the Republic, yet the painful truth is that I must confess to this sin of hubris. The Los Angeles riots of the spring of 1992 were wakeup calls that the nation was content to snooze through. Our failure to address the issues of poverty and racism fuels levels of violence that produce such murder and mayhem tolls as would prove insupportable for any foreign war. Riots are no more than rebellions, addictions are forms of escape, and muggings and graffiti are cries of protest and outrage. Guns, drugs, and the body count become the artifacts of a domestic crisis that threatens the very existence of our nation. Until the overclass of America can recognize its complicity in the lootings, pillagings, burnings, and killings flowing from the ghetto, any hope of stemming their flow will be dashed. This book is offered in the fervent hope that Americans will wake up and deliver the social, economic, and racial justice needed to bring peace and progress and to move us to the realization of the American Dream. Failure will turn it into the American Nightmare. vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For this book' s existence, and whatever merit it may possess, I owe many debts to many people. Linda Regan conceived both the title and the idea for the book and its principal virtues and guided the effort expertly throughout. Dave Doi helped with the section on guns and always affered useful, knowing advice. Larry Sherman taught me the importance of research and experimentation. Patrick V. Murphy was a tough, wise mentor. Constance Caplan and Anne Beller affered editorial help and valuable counsel. George Kateb filled me with uto pian visions of justice. Carol and Ping Ferry, Mae Churchill, Gisella Konopka, and Fred V. Field taught me what the Ameri can Dream should Iook like. My wife, Erica, and sons, Tony and Dominick, always affered the support and encouragement these enterprises need. And the men and warnen of three police departments-the New York Police Department, the New York City Transit Police, and the Minneapolis Police Department taught me how lucky had been my choice of a police career. Most of all, however, I must acknowledge my debt to this great country, which makes everything possible. ix CONTENTS CHAPTERONE Crime 1 CHAPTER TWO The Criminal 35 , CHAPTER 1HREE Juvenile Delinquency, Gangs, and Young Offenders 57 CHAPTER FOUR Theories on Crime in the United States 87 CHAPTER FIVE The Politicians' Response 101 CHAPTERSIX Racism 115 CHAPTER SEVEN Guns 155 xi xii CONTENTS CHAPTER EIGHT Drugs 193 CHAPTER NINE Family and City: Society' s Key Units 235 CHAPTER TEN The Criminal Justice System: The Cops 269 CHAPTER ELEVEN The Criminal Justice System: The Courts, Laws, and Options 309 CHAPTER TWELVE The Criminal Justice System: Corrections 333 CHAPTER 1HIRTEEN Short-Term Answers 361 CHAPTER FOURTEEN Long-Term Answers 391 Index 417 Chapter One CRIME From a single crime know the nation. -Virgil (70-19 B.C.) Nobody knows what the actual crime rate is in America but everybody knows it's too high. The two principal ways of measuring crime are surprisingly flawed, yet we pay obeisance to the headlines trumpeting still another alarming increase, and we should. The rises arereal even if the full outline of crime's iceberg has yet to emerge. What we do know is alarming enough. America is frightened. THE FACES BEHIND THE STATS The numbing array of statistics proves incomprehensible even as the figures, ironically, become essential to any under-
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