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...immediately assigned 200 to gang-busting patrols. The city council also ordered the curfew, which curtailed the gangs' activities, at least for the moment. Aside from ordering a tightening of procedures, however, there was not much that Young could do about Detroit's overburdened and overly lenient juvenile-court system, whose facilities are so inadequate that robbers and rapists under the age of 18 are sometimes back on the streets within hours...
Most important, the bank took financial risks that resulted in a higher percentage of bad loans than its competitors. Critics contend that the losses stemmed from more lenient lending standards than those of other banks. One consequence: the Chase has written off $136.8 million in actual bad loans so far this year. That is a greater loss proportionately in relation to Chase's outstanding loans than those suffered by its two big competitors. Last winter the Federal Reserve reportedly placed Chase on its "problem" list (TIME, Jan. 26) and criticized the bank's loan operation as suffering from...
Early apprehensions that police, prosecutors and judges would be overly lenient with first time offenders appear to have been unfounded...
...motto: Duty, Honor, Country. Says he: "I do not think the code is anachronistic. Integrity is essential in the development of leader-soldiers." Indeed, Berry and many other high-ranking officers, including non-West Pointers, agree that the honor code serves an absolutely irreplaceable function, as do the more lenient codes at Annapolis and the Air Force Academy. All three academies accomplish their main purpose: they produce well-trained and dedicated officers...
...affair for six months. The committee's work was almost entirely founded on the three-year-plus investigation of yet another panel of five non-GSD faculty, the Hartman Review Committee. However, the report of the policy committee, which the panel has never released publicly, takes a markedly more lenient approach than its predecessor. The critical comment in the first study either is excluded altogether or fails to find its way into any of the policy committee's conclusions. Thus, while the first review committee agreed that Hartman had "legitimate" procedural and substantive grievances, the Academic Policy Committee concluded that...