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...have not changed our policy,” Downes said. “Releasing information about suspects is determined on a case by case basis.” The Cambridge Police Department made national news this summer after it was accused of racial profiling in the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. The Crimson reported the arrest after reviewing the police department report on the incident. But Harris said the restrictions on public information had nothing to do with the press surrounding the Gates episode, and in fact preceded the incident...
Moody, Gary • second arrest of in four years for sloshing around in the waste vault under a New England outhouse...
...further mass attacks. But the tension is still evident. After the July violence, Uighurs, who make up about 15% of Urumqi's population, started leaving the city for towns like Kashgar, with larger Uighur concentrations. The Han majority are still angry about the deadly rioting. Hundreds of suspects were arrested following the July attacks, but there have been conflicting reports about when any trials will take place. On Thursday, after the new round of protests, the regional government said arrest warrants for the July events had been issued for 196 people and that 51 had already been prosecuted. Arrest warrants...
...connection to Aung San Suu Kyi - the democracy icon known in Burma simply as the Lady, who in August was sentenced to 11/2 years of house arrest - that had led me to the Shwe Zedi monastery in the first place. Located in the crumbling Indian Ocean port of Sittwe, Shwe Zedi was the monastery of U Ottama, a revered monk whose pacifist resistance against the colonial British inspired independence hero Aung San, father of Suu Kyi. In 2002, this was one of the few places the Nobel Peace Prize winner visited between stints of house arrest, and she called...
...individuals known to be violent or believed to have the potential for violence; and using trusted people in the community, who know the streets and the personalities in them, to convince potential felons to put down their guns. "One of the things we recognized is that you can't arrest your way out of gang type situations," says Police Superintendant Paul Joyce, who ran Boston's program into the mid-'90s. "We implemented the strategy of emphasizing to kids that we didn't want to toss them in jail, but that violence would not be tolerated." The city...