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...partner] is so hung up on the rules and stuff. I get pissed sometimes and go, "You just don't even [expletive] understand. This job is not rules. This is a feeling. [Expletive] the rules; we'll make them up later." --Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman in a tape-recorded conversation...
...best of times, it is the worst of times for police departments and the citizens they are sworn to protect. News of declines in the rates of violent crime nationwide has been drowned out by the sound of Mark Fuhrman's voice filling a Los Angeles courtroom--swaggering and all too believable as the former cop describes the brutalizing of suspects, fabrication of evidence and abuse of minorities. Although the O.J. Simpson jury will hear only two small snippets of the Fuhrman screed, to the rest of America the tapes provide a profane voice-over to real-life police corruption...
...offensive as Fuhrman's words may be, they are nothing when compared with the scandal in Philadelphia. To date, along with Brown, five other cops have pleaded guilty to such charges as setting up innocent victims, selling drugs and beating and threatening people, primarily poor blacks in the 39th District. As a result, 46 of their criminal convictions have been overturned, with many more still to come. Last week federal investigators expanded their search to include the Highway Patrol, subpoenaing logs of as many as 100,000 arrests over 10 years. "It's nothing new," says Jerry Day, sitting...
...Angeles City Councilman Joel Wachs grew so ashamed of Fuhrman's taped comments that he took out a half-page ad, at a cost of $10,000, in the Los Angeles Times today. "The city owes you an apology," it reads, in part. "The Mark Fuhrman tapes have disgraced...
...Goldman's clothing could have come from a shoe--but not the Bruno Magli shoe that prosecutors contend was worn by the killer. There was still no ruling on the admissibility of tapes that allegedly contain racist remarks and confessions of evidence planting by recently retired L.A.P.D. detective Mark Fuhrman, a key prosecution witness. Fuhrman's lawyer said his client might seek Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination if he takes the stand again...