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HUPD officials say the department has seen its calls for service increase dramatically since the policy change, to the point where the sheer number of alarms to which officers respond is now causing a drain on resources and response times and is even placing officers' lives in jeopardy...
...shower] on, I would notice that the water would slowly drip out of one of the spigots and there would be an inconsistent spray that barely misted my body. The soap would be impossible to remove, the curtain would be sticky and have algae growing on it; the drain clogged with gallons of human hair and the lights would...
...bought his own cell phone, cameras, video and tape recorders for preserving evidence. He learned all the tricks for detecting concealed improper discharges of waste. For example, he could put a green dye tablet into a toilet and rush outside to examine the water flowing into a storm drain. If it turned green, it meant that sewage was illegally running into the drain. He sat next to pipes throughout the night waiting for intermittent eruptions of toxic effluent. He busted apartment buildings, stores, car dealers, restaurants, bars and a flying school at the Westchester County Airport. Fearless, he once blocked...
...safe from Gatto's by-the-book zeal. In 1990, after a late-night dinner in a restaurant owned by a friend of his father's, he followed the odor of sewage into a back alley where he spotted a septic tank overflowing into a storm drain leading to a reservoir. Gatto arrested the family friend, who paid a $10,000 fine...
While most students say telemarketing calls are simply annoying, officials from Harvard Yard Mail Center (HYMC) say direct mail campaigns are a serious drain on their staff...