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...fourth initiative would allow students to staff the house security offices. This would permit guards the freedom to patrol house grounds more frequently and increase their visibility...
...arrest of Luis Rivera and Carlos Avellanede is the culmination of an intensive effort by the detective and patrol units of the Harvard Police and should indicate to those who prey upon our community that the Harvard Police takes its responsibility to protect our environment extremely seriously," Johnson said...
...American soldiers still stationed in Haiti have come to occupy two radically different worlds. The first is the world of Port-au-Prince, which belongs to conventional soldiers who patrol the streets, keep the peace and bide their time until they are scheduled to return home. The second world belongs to the 1,200 men of the Special Forces who, since the occupation began, have overseen rural Haiti. Taking on the roles of sheriff, prosecutor, judge, plumber, mayor and ghostbuster, these commandos are often the only glue holding together the 5 million Haitians who live outside the capital...
Their tactics, often devised on the spot, have been unusual, to say the least. To clear the streets of thugs, Green Berets on patrol took to inverting their night-vision goggles so that they glowed in the dark. In Les Cayes, the Special Forces jailed a judge overnight to teach him how inhumane prison conditions were. They have also moved aggressively to arrest anyone they thought might be a bad guy. "We detained them. We cuffed them," acknowledges the commanding officer, Colonel Mark Boyatt. "We did this without a whole lot of proof. But it was a very visible symbol...
...wall, some skeptics wonder whether the U.S. can really seal off a border that consists largely of four-strand barbed wire and the Rio Grande, and includes the barren deserts around Yuma, Arizona; the thick evergreen brush near McAllen, Texas; two ocean ports; and several mountain ranges. The Border Patrol insists it can do so, in part because of that very terrain. The vast majority of crossings now take place in and around urban areas. The crackdowns in San Diego and El Paso rely on enhanced ( technology, fences and manpower over short stretches of mostly urban zones, forcing immigrants...