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...will surely shine a light on other cities, where complaints about police tactics may get new scrutiny. It will also focus attention on successful reforms in such cities as New Orleans, the site of the nation's last major police scandal. Things were ugly there in the 1990s. One policeman was convicted of murdering a young mother of three who filed a supposedly confidential brutality complaint against him. Nine officers were arrested in a sting operation and convicted of selling protection to a cocaine warehouse. Two cops were charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. More than 100 others...
ARRESTED. DOBROSAV GAVRIC, 23, Serb policeman; for the Mob-style slaying on Jan. 15 of Serbian warlord Arkan; by Belgrade police. Gavric, on sick leave, reportedly had links to the underworld...
...Clinton Administration doesn't want the U.S. to become the world's policeman. But it wouldn't mind having world cops. Floating around the White House is a proposal by Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT that would have the U.N. set up a standby force of several thousand policemen, who would rush into war-torn areas to keep law and order. Cops are scarce in countries recovering from civil war, but military units deployed as peacekeepers balk at doing police work. So the U.N. has to start from scratch each time, enlisting nations to contribute policemen. "Getting enough of them...
...Basically, you're dismantling piece by piece by piece the case against Randall Adams [a man unjustly imprisoned for shooting a policeman], which consisted of five 'eyewitnesses.' There three wacko eyewitnesses that claim to have passed by the crime scene at that crucial moment, a policewoman, and David Harris, the chief prosecution witness who turns out to be the real killer. And so we learn sequentially that all of these accounts are wrong...
...Sancti Spiritus. Carlos, about 30, and Armena, 25, get in just outside Trinidad, where three dozen others are waiting with them. Carlos works in construction now, after a five-year stint as a policeman in Havana. Armena has been in Trinidad looking for work...