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...there are promising signs, including the long-delayed appointment of a city inspector general to act as a watchdog over public agencies, and ongoing investigations into corruption by past officials - an effort that Nagin, to his credit, spearheaded in his first term. New population statistics show that the city has regained more than half of its pre-Katrina population. Citizen-led reforms have consolidated the city's patchwork and inefficient network of property assessors and replaced the politician-dominated levee oversight system with a centralized office staffed largely by engineers and scientists. Enrollment at Tulane and Loyola University, New Orleans...
...this?" The teenager, who is mysteriously wearing a clean shirt turned inside out, admits that the wound, from a box cutter, was received in a fight with members of the Junior Horse Pack gang. The name is new to the police but "that's not surprising," says police inspector Jason Hewett. "They can form overnight and be gone the next day. Some of them we hear of once and never hear of again...
...services for high-risk youth. Police set up six-man "youth action teams" who speed to outbreaks of gang violence and arrest troublemakers. The aim is to get the youngsters charged with breaches of the peace with bail conditions that will take them off the streets at night. Says Inspector Jason Hewett, the policing development manager: "The goal is for zero tolerance." He is confident authorities are already having some success. "I'm being careful here-and homicides could happen in 30 minutes-but there have been no murders since November and that's a significant drop in violence." Nevertheless...
...Western Union office wiring $25 to one of his strippers, Karen Carlin, at 11:17 a.m. that Sunday? Not even the Dallas police knew when their interrogation of Oswald would end and when he would be transferred to custody of the county sheriff. In fact, a U.S. postal inspector had unexpectedly dropped in on the questioning and joined the quizzing. That held up the transfer by at least half an hour; without the delay, Ruby would have been too late. His televised shooting of Oswald occurred...
...allowed to build all of the new proposed beds in phases over the next decade. Officials can't get more money from the legislature for future prison building projects until they reach identified benchmarks showing they have accomplished implementing some rehabilitation, education and parole reform programs. The state's inspector general will chair an independent body that will develop the standards and audit compliance. That aspect gets overshadowed by the tremendous amount of money going to new prison beds, but it's important...