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...that moment, two more rows of police followed by dozens of vans and patrol cars appeared at the other end of the street, boxing the demonstration between the buildings. A yellow school bus pulled up behind the police batallions who had arrived first, and a plainclothes officer told the sitting demonstrators they would be arrested in five minutes...
Reports circulated among protestors about police brutality. By nightfall Tuesday, 285 demonstrators were in jail, 20 patrol car windows were broken, five cars' tires slashed and four police officers injured...
...afternoon. When officers ran the license plate, the car came up stolen--carjacked more than a week earlier. The chase was on. Behind the wheel of the stolen car was Thomas Jones, a 30-year-old African-American man with a record of assault, burglary and theft convictions. Two patrol cars wove behind Jones, backing off temporarily when he veered onto a sidewalk crowded with mourners from a funeral procession. A few minutes later, Jones crashed into another car, injuring two people. Then he took off on foot, hopped a fence and raced down the streets of the working-class...
...Seattle police department, wasn't kidding. Faced with a diminishing pool of local applicants, he has spent the past year visiting a dozen cities in hopes of filling his agency's 70-plus annual openings. He is touting competitive salaries and diverse assignments--from narcotics to a mountain-bike patrol--to lure cops with itchy feet...
...snagged on the mesquite thorns. In the summer it's harder for his dog to track them; the incandescent heat sears away their scent. "They move across the desert like a centipede, 40 or 50 people at a time," says Barnett. Once he catches them, Barnett radios the border patrol to cart them off his land. "You always get one or two that are defiant," says Barnett, who chuckles, remembering an incident a few weeks back. "One fellow tried to get up and walk away, saying we're not Immigration. So I slammed him back down and took his photo...