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Crime Fighting

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Crime Fighting
See also Sleuthing.
Batman
devotes his life to fighting Gotham City’s criminals. [Comics: Berger, 160]
Canadian Mounties
(Royal Canadian Mounted Police) corps which gained a romantic reputation for daring exploits and persistence in trailing criminals. [Can. Hist.: NCE, 2367]
Dragnet
radio show in which justice is always served. [Radio: Buxton, 73]
Earp, Wyatt
(1848–1929) law officer and gunfighter of American West. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 819]
Kojak
hard-boiled, Manhattan plainclothes detective. [TV: Ter-race, I, 445]
Lone Ranger
arch foe of criminals in early west. [Radio: “The Lone Ranger” in Buxton, 143–144; Comics: Horn, 460; TV: Terrace, II, 34–35]
McGarrett, Steve
implacable nemesis of Hawaiian wrongdoers. [TV: “Hawaii Five-O” in Terrace, I, 342]
Ness, Eliot
G-man successfully subdues Prohibition gangsters. [TV: “The Untouchables” in Terrace, II, 402–403]
Peel, Sir Robert
(1788–1850) reorganized British police; established Irish constabulary. [Br. Hist.: Flexner, 276]
Purvis, Melvin
gunned down Dillinger outside Chicago theater (1934). [Am. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 464]
Scotland Yard
Criminal Investigation Department of Metropolitan Police. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 97]
Starsky and Hutch
plainclothes L.A. detectives break cases and hearts. [TV: Terrace, II, 317]
Superman
invincible scourge of crime. [Comics: Horn, 642–643]
Texas Rangers
19th-century constabulary thwarting villains. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1071]
Tracy, Dick
comic book cop. [Comics: Horn, 206–207]


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LIVERPOOL will be the crime fighting capital of the UK with the arrival of the national Crimestoppers conference.
A DOORSTEP crime fighting scheme which began in Great Ayton is celebrating a special milestone.
Insp Andrew Huddleston, of Durham Constabulary Road Policing Unit said: "TRACKER is a highly effective crime fighting tool, which is proved by the arrests and prosecutions we secure, making it essential to our work on a day-to-day basis.
 
 
 
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