Word: philadelphia
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They came from New York City, from Philadelphia and Richmond, and from headquarters a few blocks away. They were all neatly dressed in jackets and ties, some still in the white shirts and short hair of yesteryear. On their own time and at their own expense, nearly 700 past and present FBI agents gathered last week in front of the U.S. courthouse in Washington for an extraordinary protest demonstration against the indictments of three former bureau officials...
Jonathan Neumann was still new on the job as a court reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1976 when he noticed that, although murder suspects routinely testified that they had been beaten by police, officials never investigated. When Neumann, a former New Yorker, asked an editor what was going on, he was told: "Welcome to Philadelphia...
...arrested, and two others have pleaded guilty to departmental misconduct charges. In addition, the local district attorney has created a special unit to prosecute police misconduct, the police department has strengthened a civilian complaint procedure, the state legislature and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission have announced hearings on the Philadelphia police. Last week Neumann and Marimow won this year's Pulitzer Prize gold medal for public service, the most prestigious of the 20 awards...
...Philadelphia story was one of the most elaborate Pulitzer-winning investigations since the Watergate days of Woodward and Bernstein-a pair that Neumann, 28, and Marimow, 30, evoke in their youth, dedication and hand-in-glove collaborative ease. They even had a "Deep Nightstick," a source with close ties to the police department who nudged their investigations in the right direction. Neumann and Marimow's first major step was obtaining from court administrators a rundown of pretrial hearings in 433 Philadelphia homicide cases between 1974 and 1977. To their surprise, statements or confessions had been thrown out because...
...major product of the reporters' work, a four-part series in April 1977, is full of sickening examples of beatings and harassment by the police of suspects, their friends and relatives. Often the victims had to be hospitalized for injuries sustained during interrogation at the Roundhouse, Philadelphia's futuristic police headquarters. In one such case recounted by the Inquirer, police raided a house without a search warrant, arrested a murder suspect without an arrest warrant, and beat four members of his family...