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That all changed when one of CRASH's own started talking. Perez says he was part of a tight-knit group of CRASH officers who played by twisted rules. This antigang fraternity acted a lot like a gang itself. When a new recruit joined the unit, CRASH members allegedly circled around and beat him--an initiation ritual that criminal gangs call "jumping in." In one case, a white CRASH officer leaving the scene of a police beating of a civilian--for which the city had to pay a $25,000 settlement--allegedly yelled out, "¡Puro Rampart! [Totally Rampart...
...urge to clap in unison. People switch from one to the other by consciously adjusting the speed of their applause. Why do some folks seem to play this game with such gusto? According to the study, published last week in Nature, it may be a function of how closely knit the audience is. Maybe the crowd that feels like one claps like...
...clerk at CitySports reported two shoplifters. They were described as two black males. One wearing a black down jacket, knit cap and black Nike sneakers. The other was wearing a gray down jacket, a black and yellow knit cap, blue jeans and black sneakers...
...both of them to an argument by a British anthropologist that 150 is the maximum number of people whom anyone can really know intimately enough to bond with. Bunches no bigger than that are the best incubators for "contagious messages," Gladwell writes, leaping from there to explain how tight-knit book-discussion clubs talked up the novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood until it hit the best-seller list...
...January 1974 the columnist Joseph Alsop declared, "I have begun to think that the '70s are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth..." The decade seemed to be a convergence of ghastly fashions (ultrasuedes, double-knit bellbottoms and medallions, blow-dry haircuts), exotic self-esteem indulgences (est, Gestalt, bioenergetics, Arica, Reichian therapy, Krishna consciousness) and assorted bad ideas (disco, Erich von Daniken's cosmology) with such larger historical dysfunctions as double-digit inflation, riots on the gas lines, Watergate and the losing of the Vietnam...