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...Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to myself, my family, my friends, those I date, my future spouse and children, that I will live a chaste life while a single person and will enter into marriage committed and faithful to my spouse for life...
...around 8 o'clock in the evening of Feb. 24, 1991, and Arthur Colbert was lost. Most of the rest of the world was focused on the Persian Gulf, where the ground war had begun only hours earlier, but Colbert had a woman on his mind. His date for the night lived in a Philadelphia neighborhood known for its crime and poverty, and Colbert couldn't find her house. Then he got lucky--or so he thought. A police wagon was idling down the block, and Colbert got out of his dark blue 1985 Toyota Camry to ask directions. Inside...
When the search turned up nothing, Ryan and Blondie directed Colbert to his date's home on the next block. Within minutes, as Colbert and the woman were driving off, the same cops appeared again. After telling the woman to "get lost," they handcuffed Colbert and told him he resembled a drug dealer named Hakim. Procedure dictated that Colbert be booked at the 39th-district police headquarters, about a mile away. But Colbert wasn't in the land of official procedure; he was in the hands of Blondie. So, instead, he was taken to 1518 Ontario Street, a run-down...
...attorney, speaking not for attribution, sounds like Blondie as he defends the foot dragging: "It's pretty much true that all of those arrested were indeed bad guys, and no one is real eager to let them out on technicalities." The other reason for going slow is financial. To date, Philadelphia has paid out almost $5 million in wrongful-arrest settlements stemming from Five Squad's activities (Colbert settled for only $25,000). "There's simply no real appetite for going full blast on this stuff," says the district attorney...