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...Cambridge Police Department's recent crackdown on violators of Massachusetts and Cambridge bicycle laws resulted in 182 citations being issued this summer, according to information obtained from Sergeant Paul Sugrue...
...bicycle law crackdown began in March. The law, which has been in effect for some time, stipulates that all bicyclists must follow the same traffic laws as cars. They must stay to the right of the road; they are strictly prohibited from riding on the sidewalk in Harvard and Central Square; and they must always yield to pedestrians...
...part of the crackdown, CPD has attempted to educate bicyclists by distributing brochures throughout public schools, the police station, bicycle stores and Cambridge's City Hall...
...Iowa and Ohio State, have recently been the site of "beer riots," some set off by toughened alcohol policies. At Colorado, scores of police and students were injured when a mob of 1,500 threw bricks and Molotov cocktails over a three-day period last May to protest a crackdown on drinking...
...career criminals are happy with the nationwide drop in such crimes as murder, rape and assault. But the Louima attack, which is also an assault, has citizens wondering whether one kind of public order has been achieved at the cost of another. In short, is America's crackdown on crime bringing with it an increase in police brutality? The best answer, in most cities, is probably not--though harassment and violence against minorities remains endemic in some quarters. "This is a major problem in this country, particularly in urban areas," says Norman Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil...