Word: apprehended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paul E. Johnson, who is chief of the Harvard University Police, said yesterday that the police had singled out a likely culprit, and were nearly prepared to apprehend...
...reply that cracking down on gangs is but the latest in a long list of official excuses for the rough-and-ready justice that has become routine in minority neighborhoods. In 1982 the L.A.P.D. was forced to ban the controversial bar-arm choke hold they had been using to apprehend suspects after several people died while in custody. Contends Don Jackson, a former police sergeant in the suburb of Hawthorne who has become a crusader against racially motivated police brutality: "They don't have white kids sit on the curb when they talk to them. They don't have white...
Even when convictions are obtained, misused funds can be difficult to recover. Most of the S&L con men have lost the money, says Wortham. "It's easy come, easy go." That may be why regulators are moving quickly to apprehend another class of villains: the accountants who, out of negligence or complicity, helped cause the S&L disaster. The Government has filed ten lawsuits against the country's biggest accounting firms, totaling $2 billion, and that figure is expected to rise dramatically. Gripes Joseph Mauriello, a partner with the second largest accounting giant, KPMG Peat Marwick: "They are going...