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Several police departments, including New York's, have also begun trying to identify problem officers early. That has been an important reform in New Orleans, where the police department has come a long way from October 1994, when Officer Len Davis ordered a lethal hit on citizen Kim Groves for filing a brutality complaint against him. On the same day Groves was killed, Richard Pennington was sworn in across town as the new superintendent of police. With the city's reputation in free fall, Pennington moved quickly to replace the department's discredited internal-affairs division with a more independent...
Last week, as a meat-loving nation watched the largest beef recall in history, everyone knew the culprit: a lethal strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli. The bug causes 20,000 infections a year in the U.S., most because of undercooked beef. The typical result is excruciating gastrointestinal distress. But for a few unlucky souls though--usually young children and the elderly--the consequences can be dire, even fatal...
...danger of such military patrols is that they operate according to rules different from those of other law-enforcement agents. Moving stealthily about in camouflage gear, soldiers are under general orders not to identify themselves, not to fire warning shots and to respond to any perceived lethal threat under the military's "rules of engagement"--which means, roughly, shoot to kill. This is what happened to Hernandez, who had fired his weapon twice in the direction of the four Marines. Family members say Hernandez often carried a gun to fend off predators, and it is not clear whether he knew...
...MOVIE] Lethal Weapon...
...MOVIE] Lethal Weapon...