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...York City. He collaborated with such high-profile Mob informants as Joseph Valachi (The Valachi Papers, 1969), confidant to Vito Genovese, and Sammy (The Bull) Gravano (Underboss, 1997), whose testimony helped undo John Gotti. In between, Maas wrote the best-selling Serpico, about a steadfast New York City cop who exposed graft in the police ranks...
...taste of what Ted meant in mid-June, when the Boston Herald reported that Max and his first cousin Michael Skakel--now charged with a 25-year-old murder in Connecticut--were arrested in 1983 for assaulting a Harvard campus cop. Then came a Globe poll showing Max in a dead heat with state senator Stephen Lynch, an ex-ironworker who grew up in the blue-collar Southie neighborhood. That weekend, four days before Max was to announce his candidacy, his press spokesman, Scott Ferson, got a call from Hyannis Port. "I'm not going to do this," Max told...
...drive to repeal the IWC's 1986 ban on commercial whaling, delegates from 37 voting countries clashed bitterly over new sanctuaries, the culling of minke whales, the return of prodigal Iceland to the fold and numerous fine points of order and procedure. With its ally Norway playing the "good cop," Japan was the "bad cop" as the two whaling powers piled on the pressure. "IWC meetings have always been contentious, but it's getting worse," observed Patricia Forkan, senior vice president of the Humane Society International. "The pro-whaling lobby is bringing in countries with no history with...
...things," says Samuel Walker of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, author of Police Accountability. He wrote a paper suggesting that the best way to analyze the traffic-stop activity of particular officers is to measure it against the work of other officers pulling comparable shifts. Then, presumably, those cops who disproportionately stop blacks or Latinos (or whites, for that matter) could be identified. Walker's approach seems sound, but almost no cities collect traffic-stop data on a cop-by-cop basis...
...sometimes be justified? That depends on your definition, which requires a short jaunt into the history of the term. Most criminologists credit former FBI chief of research Howard Teten with inventing (or at least popularizing) the idea of "profiling." In the late 1950s, Teten was a rare combination of cop and scholar. He worked crime scenes for the San Leandro, Calif., police and took classes in psychology at Berkeley. Now 68, Teten says most departments back then gathered evidence at crime scenes only to find direct clues about a criminal--a dropped matchbox, for instance. But Teten looked...