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Although HMS and BWRVA investigations concluded there was no scientific misconduct, Denise A. Chicoine, Bodkin's attorney, said the case stands whether or not the research actually was flawed...
...panel convened after Bodkin filed a formal complaint with HMS and found Arbini innocent of scientific misconduct. But the panel did urge the lab to "keep better track of data," said HMS Director of Public Affairs Donald L. Gibbons...
...California as well as "racial profiling" by New Jersey state troopers. The question is whether law enforcement, amid its extraordinary success in pushing the crime rate down, is showing too little regard for individual rights--especially those of blacks and Hispanics, who are most often targets of alleged misconduct. "We cannot have the kind of country we want if people are afraid of those folks who are trying to protect them," President Clinton said during his press conference last Friday, after promising to seek $40 million from Congress for improved police training and recruitment...
Last Friday, Safir appointed a black officer to the No. 2 position in the street-crimes unit. (Black leaders dismiss the move as window dressing.) Both Safir and Giuliani have emphatically denied that the police are guilty of misconduct or racial bias. The Diallo controversy, Giuliani says, has been stirred up by political activists and the scandal-hungry press. In fact, he points out, fatal shootings by police are at their lowest level in 13 years. The police department is controversial, its supporters say, because it has been doing its job vigorously. And they note that it has been phenomenally...
...said they "do their dirty work without serious accountability." He charged inspectors general with having created a culture in which "anonymous denunciations thrive." His unsupported criticisms reflect a lack of knowledge and do a grave disservice to inspectors general. Inspectors general root out waste, fraud and abuse and investigate misconduct. They do not have any independent power to prosecute but instead work with federal prosecutors on cases that are suitable for action. And they deal with anonymous denunciations the way any professional investigative agency does: they pursue allegations that have merit and reject those that do not. MICHAEL R. BROMWICH...