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Last month's funeral for Amadou Diallo was a somber occasion, commemorating the life of a young man who had been wrongly shot to death on Feb. 4 by New York Police Department (NYPD) officers. His death is only the latest in a series of police brutality cases over the last year, but it serves to remind us all the more of the fine line between enforcing "law and order" and destroying civil liberties...
...Deallo's case, four NYPD officers shot a total of 41 bullets at the unarmed man, who was about to enter his apartment. 19 bullets reached their target, many after Diallo's lifeless body had slumped onto the steps of his home...
...incident is even more shocking in light of the statistic that 90 percent of NYPD officers never fire their guns. As Attorney General Janet Reno said at a Thursday press conference, "Firing 41 bullets at an unarmed man--there is just no excuse for that...
...excuse indeed. And this case is not an isolated incident. New York residents still remember the heinous torture of Abner Lounima, who, while handcuffed, was sodomized with a plunger by NYPD officers only a year...
...this is February, it must be crackdown-on-drunken-drivers month. Three motorists arrested on charges of drunken driving had their cars seized on the spot by the NYPD on Monday, Day 1 of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's new 'zero-tolerance' approach to DWI. "This is obviously an approach that will play to the bleachers," says TIME writer Adam Cohen. But since New York often seems to be governed from the bleachers, it may not be inappropriate...