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They don't complain if I get there late." Charlie drove the bodies up the East River, which fairly boiled this summer day, then through The Bronx, past signs for truck parts and cigarettes. The landscape was unrelievedly dismal until Charlie crossed the bridge to City Island, off the flank of The Bronx in Long Island Sound. Here there were bright, scrubbed storefronts, fishermen in slickers, the air of New England, and a ferry with a happy crew. Lloyd Roberts, an engineer, remarked on Charlie's load, "These passengers are the best. They don't pay, they...
Charlie Garcia drove his empty body wagon away. Tomorrow, Friday, he would bring up another load from the medical examiner's office in Manhattan. He does not haul bodies on weekends or on Mondays. Tuesday is the day for the poor dead of Queens and The Bronx. Wednesday is for Brooklyn. And Thursday, Garcia comes back to Bellevue. Staten Island buries...
...Cost Control, have been submitted piecemeal during the past three months, and will be compiled in a 1,000-page summary report early this fall. Some are quite specific: as an example of the expense of federal medical facilities, the group cites a Veterans Administration hospital in The Bronx that cost nearly twice as much to build per bed as some private facilities. Others are more sweeping: the Government's 19,300 computers are often incompatible with one another, share no common base of reliable data, use different accounting systems, and operate with obsolete technology. "The whole data-processing...
...Kojak episode? A clip from Hill Street Blues? No, the dramatic scene is a real confession on videotape. It is one that may be repeated 500 times this year by the district attorney's office in The Bronx. The technique has resulted in a guilty-plea rate of 85% and a conviction rate of almost 100%. And New York City is not alone. Taped confessions are the latest tools of enterprising law-enforcement agencies around the country...
...crime victims, says Chicago Attorney Philip Corboy, "jurors recognize that it's their own tax dollars that pay for the award." And a juror's financial status may matter. Says New York's Moran: "The banker in Westchester won't give you a nickel, while Bronx jurors will give you the courthouse...