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...Harris, Klebold and others. The school denies playing favorites, and jocks deny harassing anybody. The press, says Schulte, "believe anything these kids say. They tell you that the jocks picked on them, and you print it. It's ridiculous." Seven months ago, the sheriff's department warned the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners about growing violence in the Columbine area, including fighting by ganglike groups of athletes. School officials at the time called the report exaggerated...
...enforcement in Jefferson County has already caught its share of flak for the Littleton massacre -- first for ignoring signs of trouble from Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and then for running a media-relations operation full of premature statements, retractions and conflicting information that, fairly or not, has made the many-headed investigation look about as organized as the stateroom in "A Night at the Opera." But what about the SWAT team on the scene? Were they bold enough? Fast enough? Ten days into the aftermath, parents, politicians and the police themselves are all asking the same question: Could...
...TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon is the coauthor of "No Heroes" with Danny O. Coulson, founder and former commander of the recently formed FBI Hostage Rescue Team. She's ready to assume that the SWAT team in Littleton, which was a hodgepodge of officers from the Denver and Jefferson County police departments, did the best they could. She also thinks they could have done better...
...programs serve slightly different regions, with One-to-One focusing on three housing developments in Cambridge and NCYEP serving North Cambridge and Jefferson Park...
...next month the girls called a community meeting, inviting representatives from the school district and environmental agencies. After Maria, Fabiola and Nevada got through with them, they may have been sorry they went. When a schools official claimed that in an emergency, Jefferson's children would be evacuated to 9200 South Broadway, the girls pulled out photos proving that this was the address of a vacant lot. "We really nailed him down," Fabiola recalls. "We said, 'If you made a mistake like that, what other mistakes have you made...