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...wanted to go after shootings, and he knew that gun possession and drug dealing were intertwined. "It's relatively hard for a uniformed patrolman to catch someone carrying drugs,'' Maple says. "But as we'd seen, it's easy to catch someone for an open can of beer on the street." Thus what the cops call "beer and piss patrol" became a tactic for apprehending more serious criminals. "Your open beer lets me check your ID," says Maple. "Now I can radio the precinct for outstanding warrants or parole violations. Maybe I bump against that bulge in your belt; with...
...Angeles the next year promising to reform the department's "paramilitary mentality." But the outsider allowed Gates' entire command staff to stay on the job and failed to oust most of the 44 problem officers. He didn't remake the department, and he couldn't be the patrolman's pit bull, as Gates had been. So now he courts irrelevance...
...have been the work of Middle Eastern terrorists, the hunt for the killers quickly focused on two white Americans accused of having rented the truck used to hold the explosives. On Friday one suspect was taken into federal custody: Timothy McVeigh, who had been picked up by a highway patrolman two days earlier on a traffic violation north of Oklahoma City. Two associates of McVeigh's were also taken into custody as potential witnesses. A possible motive: McVeigh was said to be obsessed with the Federal Government's 1993 assault on Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas. At week...
...Stop the shooter!" shouts the man with the blue bandanna around his head. There's a cop nearby, but he makes no move on the 6-ft. 3-in. teenager who is taking aim. That's because the patrolman is one of about 75 spectators who have dropped by for an Under the Stars basketball game -- and the shooter simply wants to sink a basket. Every Tuesday and Thursday night inside Dunbar High School gym -- 12 blocks from the Capitol and five from one of Washington's most notorious drug markets -- the only shots the police have to worry about...
...Montreal. When we arrived at the border patrol, some guy who spoke broken English asked to see our passports. Of course, we did not have any, nor did we have any registration for this broken-down car. Like the overpayed, underqualified civil service worker he was, the border patrolman let us go. So we were finally in Canada. As we approached Montreal, we started to see words that sort of looked like English, but not exactly...