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Galluccio suggested police take a similarly indirect approach to reducing minor crimes such as pan-handling and public intoxication. He advocated adopting tactics used by the New York Police Department, which targets pan-handlers and public drunkards for offenses such as jay-walking and obstructing public walkways...
Galluccio said these minor police stops often reveal outstanding warrants and lead to arrests...
...successor, retired Air Force General John Gordon--a former deputy director of the CIA--gets higher marks from insiders, though some complain that the Counter-Terrorism Security Group, of which he is chairman, is "too bulky." Meetings of Gordon's committee sometimes have representatives from 15 agencies, among them minor players. If there are 20 to 30 people in a room, some without the highest security clearance, the FBI and the CIA will not share sensitive intelligence, says a White House aide...
While young Rodriguez was getting his baseball education in the minor leagues, Bonds was teaching a graduate course in power offense. Baseball's stat packers have called his 2001 season one of the best ever. At 37, Bonds hit 73 home runs, breaking Mark McGwire's record. Not only did Bonds hit more dingers, he needed 33 fewer at bats to do it. And he walked 177 times, breaking Babe Ruth's record for perambulation...
...signs the vatican has little tolerance for zero tolerance. The Holy See last week finally responded to the plan U.S. bishops devised in June for handling abusive priests. Rome wants "further reflection on and revision of" the proposal, which says any priest found to have ever sexually abused a minor, even once, can never minister again...