Crime Fighting

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]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Namibian artists launch crime fighting network
The NCA is welcome but I would like to see more resources, investment and education going in to support crime fighting agencies and UK business in their battle against the online criminals."
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Summary: The Lebanese Army launched a phone application Friday that tries to involve users in crime fighting, allowing people to report suspicious vehicles, abductions or other security events.
Army launches crime app
A MAN who worked for a crime fighting charity tried to cash a cheque in a bogus bank account, a court heard yesterday.
CRIME BLIGHTER
Summary: DUBAI - International police officials who participated in the symposium of best police practices which concluded on Wednesday praised the effort by Dubai Police to bring crime fighting forces together for the good of society.
Dubai Police lauded for joint effort to tackle crime

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