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...most senior Asian officer, Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, responsible for security for the 2012 Olympics, is in mediation with the Met over what he characterizes as racial discrimination; if these talks fail, he has threatened to take his employers to a tribunal. In a 2007 autobiography, Not One of Us, Ali Dizaei, a high-flying Iranian-born policeman who was the subject of a ? $6 million corruption investigation by the Met and was eventually exonerated and reinstated, depicts a force that still falls far short of its own pledge to end the "institutional racism" uncovered by an inquiry into...
Defending Pakistan Your coverage of Pakistan is very one-sided [July 21]. You say the country is reeling from rising radicalism and a slumping economy. You call it a failing state, a terrorist sanctuary and a serious threat to the security of the U.S., despite the fact that in February's election, Pakistanis rejected religious extremism and said yes to democracy and the rule of law. All economies are in a slump. Radicalism, terrorism and extremism are rife from Colombia to Sri Lanka. And I fail to understand how a small group of extremists in a corner of one Pakistani...
...wants a tax cut for corporate profits, while Obama has proposed a whole host of tax cuts that will benefit those in the middle-income brackets. Both candidates have new spending programs, though Obama appears to have more. And both candidates say they will cut spending elsewhere, though they fail to provide many specifics about...
...Francisco amended its sanctuary law in 1992, removing protections for criminal suspects. But in practice, police and justice departments would continually fail to turn over suspects to federal authorities. When the city's juvenile-court system was caught flying Hondurans convicted of dealing cocaine back to their home country last May - instead of contacting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities to have them federally deported - Mayor Gavin Newsom changed the policy and told police officers that they should turn suspected criminals, even juveniles, over to authorities. "That policy was wrong," says Nathan Ballard, the mayor's director of communications...
...Despite $2.8 billion spent by U.S. federal and state governments to improve voting technology since 2002, a new study by New York University researchers says poor ballot designs have confounded hundreds of thousands of voters in recent elections. The study noted some drawbacks of touchscreen voting systems, which can fail to indicate unregistered votes and sometimes lack paper trails for verification--flaws that have prompted many precincts to replace the terminals with optically scanned ballots. With more than 15 million Americans casting votes in counties with new ballot systems in place this year, it's likely that some confusion will...