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...David Dinkins responded by deploying 2,000 police officers and making a personal visit to the troubled neighborhood under a hail of rocks and epithets hurled at him by fellow blacks. Before an uneasy calm was restored, 163 people were arrested, 66 civilians and 168 police officers injured, 25 patrol cars damaged and three stores looted. Among the injured was Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin, who was attacked in his taxi by a large crowd of black youths. He was beaten and stripped to his underpants. It was the city's worst racial violence & since the outbreak that followed Martin Luther...
...where 7,599 vehicles were stolen in 1990 alone, many by juveniles. By limiting the plan largely to 12- to 14-year- olds, officials hope to reach kids they can still straighten out. The youths and their parents sign contracts with the county juvenile bureau, committing the offenders to patrol shifts. In 14 months, six youths have made it through an average of 150 hours of patrols to complete their probation, and one of them has gone on to enroll in the Job Corps. Hall finished his tour in July and last week entered the eighth grade...
...routine coastal patrol last week, Panamanian police noticed two dozen shrimp boats clustered near the island of Cebaco, on the Pacific coast. Suspicious, officers boarded one of the craft and discovered two packages containing 15 kg of cocaine. For Nestor Castillo, police chief of Veraguas province, it was a distressingly familiar episode. "In the past year we are getting flooded with cocaine processed in Colombia," he says. "More than ever before...
With little physical devastation beyond the oil fires that darken the skies, Kuwait appears tranquil. Most shops are closed, but the supermarkets are well stocked, and bargains -- 10 watermelons for $1 -- can be had from the Iranian merchants whose skiffs cross the gulf each morning. Giant minesweeping machines patrol the beaches, but few people pop up their umbrellas or venture into the water...
...commission also found that racist, sexist and homophobic statements appeared regularly in the messages officers typed to one another on their patrol-car computer systems. "I would love to drive down Slauson ((a black ( area)) with a flame thrower . . . We would have a barbecue," said one. "U won't believe this," said another. "That female call again said susp((ect)) returned . . . I'll check it out then I'm going to stick my baton...