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Public opinion appeared to be on the side of shielding rape victims by not disclosing their names, and about 15 members of the Guardian Angels, a self-styled group of crime fighters who patrol urban areas, marched yesterday in front of NBC and The New York Times...
...trash compactor was running, and when I heard the baby crying, I turned it off," says McArthur Williams, a porter at the housing project. "If it hadn't cried, the baby would have been gone for sure." Patrol sergeant | Philip Insardi, who was summoned to the scene, said he crawled through the compactor's small metal doors and shined a flashlight onto the mount of garbage that was about to be squeezed between the machine's walls. "His feet were sticking out from under some newspapers," he said. "He wasn't making a peep when I got there." Insardi whipped...
...which prohibits one officer from ratting on another. A few encouraging signs exist that some officers are abandoning the tradition of blind loyalty to one another in misconduct cases. In Houston more than half of all complaints now come from other officers. During the King beating, two California highway-patrol officers reportedly took down the names of those involved from their breast-pocket name tags. They have since testified to investigators...
...responsibility, Commissioner Benjamin Ward summoned 327 senior officers to police headquarters in lower Manhattan. He read them the riot act, then fired the entire chain of command involved in the incident -- from a lieutenant at the offending precinct to the department's third-ranking official, the chief of patrol. "I didn't consult with the mayor or the district attorney, or anyone," says Ward. "I just acted...
Those who defend Gates say his is the only realistic approach. They decry the average officer's frustration with revolving-door justice, excessive plea bargaining, the fact that so few convicted felons "do time" for their crimes, the requirement that those who patrol ghetto areas fulfill a myriad of societal roles. As excuses, these explanations excuse nothing -- and the / conditions they describe are hardly...