Word: patrollers
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Such dangers are especially acute in the remote Sonoran Desert of eastern Arizona. Because of U.S. border-patrol crackdowns elsewhere, the Sonoran section has become the busiest corridor for illegal immigration. So far this year, U.S. officers have caught 350,000 illegals there, up 25% from last year. Officials estimate that more than twice that number got through, to Phoenix and points beyond. As the traffic has mounted, so have the casualties. All told, 154 migrants in the Southwest have died this year from heat exposure, drowning and accidents--a 30% increase over...
Once there, they may meet Roger Barnett, whose 22,000-acre ranch sits astride the migration route to Phoenix. He occasionally dons a badge reading RANCH PATROL and jumps in his pickup with an M-16 rifle and 9-mm pistol to guard his spread against trespassers. By his count, Barnett has corralled hundreds of aliens and marched them to the border patrol since last year. "It's a jungle out here," says the cattleman, trudging through mesquite fields littered with plastic jugs and soiled diapers left by illegals. Larry Vance, a utility-company technician, climbs a 30-ft.-high...
First, Watson has, according to both patrol officers and Cambridge political officials, been at odds with his top supervisors since he became commissioner in 1996. Though Watson has been an effective manager, his style has clashed with the old guard at the department. Worse, according to some, is that Watson never developed rapport with his patrol officers, due in part to his stormy relationship with the Cambridge Police Patrol Officer's Union...
...Community policing," the department's focus on quality-of-life issues, has been the core of Watson's plan of action. But he and his senior staff have repeatedly butted heads with the patrol officer's union over the best way for it to work...
...have to understand," said an officer on patrol on JFK Street, "we're all jaded...