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...proposes banning soft money contributions from individuals, which he has said exert a corrupt influence on the political process. McCain supports so-called "paycheck protection," which could require unions and corporations to obtain their employees' consent before using company money for political purposes...
...ousted Nawaz may have created an obstacle to the meeting - at least at the level of appearances - but Washington has a long tradition of close cooperation with Pakistani strongmen, recognizing also perhaps that the prospects for stability may be greater under military rule than they were under Nawaz's corrupt civilian administration. President Clinton will go through the motions of urging a speedy return to civilian rule, but terrorism remains the most important point of contention between the U.S. and the country that remains the key to its efforts to apprehend Osama bin Laden in neighboring Afghanistan. "While U.S. counter...
This too is a problem that is not limited to the L.A.P.D. Law-enforcement experts say police nationwide are too often told by their supervisors, or by prosecutors and politicians, that the only thing that matters is getting a conviction. "The seed of corruption begins when cops are asked to fill in the blanks for district attorneys to make cases," says Gene O'Donnell, a professor at New York City's John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a former cop. "If they don't remember, there's a tremendous pressure for them to make it up." O'Donnell says...
...corrupt and brutal behavior that seems to have played a major role in the crime-reduction efforts of the Rampart division of the Los Angeles Police Department deserves to be vilified, whereas in New York City the four police officers acquitted in the shooting death of Amadou Diallo made a tragic mistake--one that not only took a man's life but also shook the trust and confidence of the minority community in the police department itself...
...removed from predators, the slogan and the tactics should have changed. Criminals were not the only ones in fear of aggressive policing; so were many law-abiding citizens, particularly in the minority community, with whom the safety of the night should have been shared. Worse, in Los Angeles those corrupt officers believed they not only owned the night but owned everyone and everything in the name of that same war on crime...