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Crime Fighting See also Sleuthing. Batman devotes his life to fighting Gotham City’s criminals. [Comics: Berger, 160] (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) corps which gained a romantic reputation for daring exploits and persistence in trailing criminals. [Can. Hist.: NCE, 2367] radio show in which justice is always served. [Radio: Buxton, 73] (1848–1929) law officer and gunfighter of American West. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 819] hard-boiled, Manhattan plainclothes detective. [TV: Ter-race, I, 445] arch foe of criminals in early west. [Radio: “The Lone Ranger” in Buxton, 143–144; Comics: Horn, 460; TV: Terrace, II, 34–35] implacable nemesis of Hawaiian wrongdoers. [TV: “Hawaii Five-O” in Terrace, I, 342] G-man successfully subdues Prohibition gangsters. [TV: “The Untouchables” in Terrace, II, 402–403] (1788–1850) reorganized British police; established Irish constabulary. [Br. Hist.: Flexner, 276] gunned down Dillinger outside Chicago theater (1934). [Am. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 464] Criminal Investigation Department of Metropolitan Police. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 97] plainclothes L.A. detectives break cases and hearts. [TV: Terrace, II, 317] invincible scourge of crime. [Comics: Horn, 642–643] 19th-century constabulary thwarting villains. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1071] comic book cop. [Comics: Horn, 206–207] |
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Denham heads the Antelope Valley Crime Fighting Initiative, a task force that's targeted criminal street gangs. At the meeting, Fox announced he would seek to hike the 2005 federal budget outlay for crime fighting by 100 percent, an increase of nearly US$100 million. The authorities have a new crime fighting tool: Mobile phones. |
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