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Laureen A. Donahue was elected president after the previous president, Wilmon Chapman, was promoted to sergeant, making him no longer eligible to be a member of the patrolmen's union...
...appearing insensitive as a community celebrated its parade, and some angry that city residents don't realize that police shootings have actually declined in the '90s even as cops have managed to reduce crime. "The police department is in a catch-22 situation," says Patrick Lynch, president of the patrolmen's union. "If we control the problems out there, we get blamed for being aggressive. If we don't act fast, we get attacked. It's paralyzing." The paralysis may be part of the reason the murder rate has risen 12% this year after a modest increase last year...
...never been easy. DEP has underpaid its police officers--the top salary prior to March was $24,435 for patrolmen--and has not given them enough training in the detection of environmental crimes. It has starved them of basic equipment from chemical testing kits to cars. Gatto trained himself with books and videos and bought his own cell phone, cameras, video and tape recorders for preserving evidence. He learned all the tricks for detecting concealed improper discharges of waste. For example, he could put a green dye tablet into a toilet and rush outside to examine the water flowing into...
Would any of this have helped at Columbine, where patrolmen waited outside the school for later-arriving SWAT teams rather than barging inside to confront the gunmen? Colorado Governor Bill Owens told TIME that he thinks those slow and deliberate tactics were probably inappropriate and will be assessed by his Columbine Review Commission. But most departments aren't waiting for more studies--rapid deployment is the order...
...George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square. Bookworms will recall the neighborhood around the public library in Bryant Park across town as the domain of Lucinda Wyman, the heroine of Ruth Sawyer's Roller Skates, who prowled the city a century ago, making friends of cab drivers, patrolmen, fruit vendors, junk dealers and confectioners--defying her class-conscious relatives. A pleasant place to lunch nearby: the Algonquin, onetime hangout of wits and wags Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman and Robert Benchley...