Show Crime III In DC The crime rate in the national national national na na- na- na capital has become so excessive excessive ex ex- excessive the city's biggest newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper no longer runs separate separate separate sepa sepa- rate stories on each Instead it lumps all the days day's crimes together in smaller than normal type as if to minimize minimize minimize mini mini- mize the seriousness and scandal scandal scandal scan scan- dal of the current situation CRIMES NOW number in inthe inthe inthe the dozens daily and instead of headlines telling of the robbing robbing rob rob- criminals' criminals outrages s in bing and beating citizens and detailed stories crimes are given only four or five lines in small print and collected into one story For those who remember the national capital when crime was not rampant and when the community didn't accept such a constant senseless senseless senseless sense sense- less surge of criminal conduct as if it was to be expected and accepted conditions in Washington today come as quite a shock THE SITUATION constitutes constitutes constitutes a national and international international international disgrace which only firmness in enforcing the law lawand lawand lawand and better citizens can eventually eventually eventually even even- correct |