Word: diallo
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...Beat is less about crime fighting than peacekeeping, civic and personal. Its hunky heroes spend more time wrestling with internal demons than with crooks; on the job, they report pigeon murders and settle traffic disputes. These are sensitive cops for the post-Diallo era (and shadowing their actions are protests over the death, in custody, of a black suspect...
...Maybe the shooting of Amadou Diallo wasn't murder, but certainly a price should be paid for a mistake of such magnitude." KARL NURMI Sudbury...
...post-Diallo America, police forces nationwide face heightened scrutiny over their sensitivity toward minorities. So it's a safe bet that the nation's police chiefs will be following closely the reaction to a Philadelphia Police Department policy unveiled Tuesday that provides women's groups, such as Women Organized Against Rape and the Women's Law Project, with input and oversight pertaining to departmental policies for investigating rape cases. This may not exactly be akin to handing the reins of the NYPD over the NAACP, but law enforcement experts cite it as a revolutionary step in including a disaffected group...
Speakers throughout the event emphasized the importance of organization at the national level to increase awareness of the Diallo case...
...Diallo was not just a black person who was gunned down," said Orr, who is an Undergraduate Council member. "He was also a person, a person who did nothing wrong...