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TherelsNo
Justice
lntheLand
by
Jeff Calklns
Make
a
chaln; for
lhe
land
ls
fu// of
bloody
crlm•. and the ctty is tul/ ol
violence
(Ezek. 7:23).
Crime soared by 18% in the ffrs1 three
month$ ol 1975 In the U.S. Belore that,
1t
IIUrged 16'!r. In 1974. Elght milllon serious
crlmes will take place thls year. In fact,
one 1973 study tound
17
mllllon peopte
had been vlclimized In one year by mlljor
crlme, but only 5.3.mllllon reponed
il
The
grfm conctusion: the crlme rate..ls about
3
times what the FBI unltorm crlme reporta
ahow.
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. . . the land
/$
fu// of l>lood, and lhe clty
fui/ of
perverseness
[lnjvstic<l,
RSVl:
tor
they say, the Lord hath torsaken the
The threat of crirne ls an ever·
present
concem
world-wkle. Many of
us Uve In daíly
feat
of
becomlr1g
a vic–
tim.
9ut
why?
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Stoppedl
lhis timely booklet
isolfered
asan educational
public-·
VIC8
by
Arrbassador College.
tt
telts
earlh,
and
lhe
Lord seeth not
(Ezek. 9:9).
Fallure to convlct felona ls one out–
standing weakness or the American sys-
1em of criminel justice In New York City.
for ••ample, 80% of felony
arr~
resutt
in the reductlon
ot
charges to mlsde–
meanors or outright dlsmlasal. The same
percentage of homicide arrests in the
sama city
see
the defendant !raed on
probatlon or sent
to
prlson for test than
ten years.
Crfmlnotogista estímate that of all seri–
ous cr1mes.
onty
12% tead to arresta, only
6% to convlctlons, and only 1% to prlson.
These grim conjecturn are supported
by the chief of pollee In los Angeles,
Edward Davls, who firmty believes that
90% of the letona In los Angeles County
are not sent to prison.
The pollee chlef of Gsry, Indiana, llke–
wise notes that 9 out of 1O of those ar–
restad for burgtary, thett, or robbery In his
city are "baclt
on
the str..ts" now.
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Y
ea.
truth falleth; and he that depsrteth
from ev/1 maketh himsalf
a
prey. And the
Lord
saw
lt.
and
1t
disp/eased
him lhat
there
was
no judpment
(laalah 59:15).
you
why
there ís
an
intemallonal
crime
crisis In all facets
ol
society.
tt
ouUines
the
1'001
causas
ol
crime and
con11asts
"'íme's
Ten
Commandmen!S"
with
a
hígher
codeof
ethiCS.
And,
even more
im~ntly,
itexplains the ontycure for
crime.
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10
One major key to the abysmat state
ot
justlce in the United States ls plea-bar–
galning.
The labyr1nth
ot
procedurat require–
ments 1mposed upon the )ustlce system
by the Warren Co'urt has
e
reatad two me–
jor roadblocks to tlle punishment
ot
crlm–
lnals: (1)
8tiff
rules for questioning
suspects and obtalnlng evidence make lt
harder to arres/, and (2) trial delays oc–
casioned by hasstes over whether a de–
fendant's r1ghts have been viotated make
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harder to gel a convlction.
In the ensulng trustrations, prosecutors
turn to str1king " deats" with defendants.
ottering to wíthdraw the felony charge In
exchanga
tor
a gullty ptea on a tesser
lndlctrnent.
" lt's
a
rotten
and
lmmorat system that
threalens to glve a man more )all time tor
axercislng hls right lo
a
trial," says Mar–
shat Hartrnan, director of defense ser–
vices
for the Nationat legal Aid and
Defender Association.
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Judgment
ls
túrned
away
l>ackward,
and justlce standeth
atar
ofl: fQr trulh
/ti
fallen in tha
slreel,
and aquity cannot
en·
ter(tsalah 59:14). •
·Presiden! Ford recently noted that
whlle the number of crimes has soared,
the number or prisoners in state and f ed·
eral penltentiaries has declíne<l. He notes
that one study shows that of
" aO
con–
victed robbers w1th a major prison rec·
ord, only 27% were sent to prtson alter
conviction."
Accordlng lo Brooltlyn District Attornay
Eugene Gotd, ..A guilty man can $11p
EVERY
t-a-rrH
SHOPPER
TheAI•ming
Frequency
ofShoplifting
Severa! atudles have been made
by
security flrms to discover the lrequency
rete ol shoptifting.
One prlva1e securlty firm followed 500
ahoppers through a New York depart–
ment stqre and found 1 ol
every
12 cus–
tomers atole somathing'. Another firm
round that
1
out of 15 shoppers enterlng
Mlected New York, Boston and Phlla–
delphia department atores took some–
thing wlthout paying for
~.
But another
thorough Sludy of 432 shoppers hes
shown thal 1hose ratios may
be
too opti–
mistic.
Saut D. Altor, presiden! of Manag&–
ment Saflllluards, lnc., began hls speclat
project on shoplitting by asklng various
retail executives to guasa the ratio
ot
shoplittera to total customers. Two sea·
soned
e~ecutlves
guessed there was 1
shoplifter
tor
every 1
,000
visitara: severa!
other executives guessed 1 In
500.
1 In
100, 1 in 80. etc.
Then Mr. As1or sent members of hls
ataff lo
a
particular high·volume, sott–
gOOds store in mid·town New York City
and jnstructed them to follow the firat
person
Who
enterad the store regardleso
of age, sex. race or any other chanicter·
lstlc. They were lnstructed to stay with
that ¡;ustomer until he
left
the store. The
through the cracks [one la tempted to say
·gaplng holes') In the system, or an in·
nocent man can wlnd up In jalt for
months awaíting tlial."
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Woe unto them •.. whlch fustify the
wicked for reward, and take aw•y the
righteousness of the rlghteous from him
(lsalah 5:22-23).
The system need not continua In this
corruption. There
ls
the utoplan altema–
tive, wherein
a
perfect balance ls Slruck
between the liberal call to end all "root
causes ol crfrne" (such
as
po\rerty,
llliter–
acy, peor lamlly environment, and lgno–
rance) and the conservativa advocacy
ot
swltt and speedy punlshment for
wrongdoing.
Th ls " supernatural solution" could
strlke a balance betwaen )ustioe and
merey. order and freedom. and entorce–
ment and forgiveness.
Thla ls the ml llennial solullon pre–
scrlbed by the same prophats. lsalah and
Ezeklel, whlch
were
quoled above. lt ls a
time of law and order - with iustioe and
merey
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"•.. snd
he
sha//
not fvdge alter the
sighl of his
eyes,
n&ither reprove after
lhe
hear/ng of his
ears:
but wlth righteous–
ness sha/1 he judgeJhe poor. and reprove
with equlty
tor
the meek of lhe
earth.•..
They
ahd
not hurt nor destroy In
al/
my
holy mountain: for the earth
sha/1
l>a
fui/
of the knowledge of the Lord.
as
the
walers
covar tha
sea" (laalah 11:3-4,
9).
tt'o
a
solution which lo
WOdh
praylng
for.
o
sama with tha next random customer
they coutd concentrate upon.
Ot
169
customers foltowed, 20 atole.
That's 1 out ot
8.5,
or nearty
12%.
In
addltlon,
3
customers notlced that tlley
wera belng observed and elther dropped
or purchased the merchandlse they had
concealed.
The thieves were atmost equally di–
vided In the age groups 17-25, 25-'40, and
40 and over. Three were males: 17 were
tamales. Fourteen of the
20
dropped tlle
stolen goods lnto larga ahopplng bags.
Four wore the merchandlse out ol the
store or carrll!ld
1t
ovar thelr arm, and 2
dropped stolen goods lnto larga hand–
baga. Nona of the shoplifters were
spotted by store detectives.
Al another atore. Mr. As1or's statf fol–
lowe<l
263
randomly seleeted customers.
Twenty-seven, or approx1matety 1 out of
1
o.
ware observed steallng. In both
ot
theae studles the vatue ol the average
thett was around
$8.
01
432 aver"9e
shoppers,
47
atole merchandlse. Thars
about t in91
Stock shrlnkage lossea lor industries
lisled with the Nationat Retal! Merchants
Assoclation averege just over 2'!r.. A
re–
ductlon of just one hall of one percent in
these tosses - lo 1.5% - would have the
sama eHect on alter-tax profita
as a
$3,125,000 increase in sales tor
a
$1
O
milllon store, ora $15,625,000 increa$8 in
sales lora $50 mllllon store.
Obvlously, then, the whlte-collar ahopo
lifter exacts a heavy toll on the economic
haallh
of many buslnesoes. The butinon–
man and conaumer allke would profit lm–
mensety if that 1 shopper In
9
would join
the other
8
In
k.,.píng the simple com·
mand of God: "Thou shalt not steat."
O
WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 20.
1975