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Johnson's plan mirrors changes toward increasedpolice-community interaction that Anderson hasalready implemented in the Cambridge policedepartment...
...Anderson, who was appointed Cambridge's firstcommissioner last spring, recently created acitizens' advisory board for feedback and expandedthe auxiliary community force from 50 to 100members...
...think we can see the police evolving into anew era, one where we realize that we cannot do italone, where people are important," Anderson said...
...silicone breast-implant scandal may, however, change that relationship. Anderson's own trust in the system was shattered on Dec. 12, when he sat down and read scores of Dow Corning documents, including 17 internal memos dating as far back as the mid-1970s, about silicone-gel breast implants. The information surfaced during a liability suit in Michigan. When he finished, Anderson wrote and hand-delivered both the documents and an urgent letter to the FDA demanding that all such implants be promptly removed from the marketplace. "This appeal is not made lightly," Anderson wrote. He noted that Dow Corning...
...resulting furor rattled the FDA like no scandal since the thalidomide scare of the early 1960s. Following Anderson's appeal, the agency declared a moratorium on all silicone-gel implants, pending further review. "It's the ultimate case as to why you need a strong agency," says FDA Commissioner David Kessler. Now, says Kessler, "the honor system is out the window." He promises that companies will be subject to intensive audits in which investigators will scrutinize how data are analyzed and presented by the manufacturers. Says he: "People have to know that we have the will and resolve to deal...