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...city that prides itself as one of the most liberal in the country, one headline this summer was particularly jolting. Top training officers in the Cambridge Police Department said they taught new recruits that pepper spray was less effective on members of certain Hispanic ethnic groups because of their alleged predilection for spicy foods...
...officer, who asked that his name not be used, said that the Chronicle stories about pepper spray and others reported false details--and didn't accurately reflect what officers were taught...
Frank T. Pasquarello, the CPD's spokesperson, said that although the pepper spray story "got blown out of proportion," it had no effect on morale...
...said that he has received no criticism from city officials over the department's handling of the pepper spray incident...
...identities of pseudonymous SFM4M visitors would have been PR poison for a sizable chunk of its customers, declined to lift its curtain of privacy for the prying eyes of concerned officials. So Klausner got San Francisco-based PlanetOut, an online service for gays, lesbians and bisexuals, to help him pepper SFM4M with warning messages about avoiding the disease (condoms, monogamy and penicillin?). Syphilis is easily treated if caught early, but if left alone, it causes chancres and lesions and eventually leads to insanity and death ? all the while increasing vulnerability to other STDs, most notably AIDS. Now that...