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First, two weeks before the election, the city’s 42 precincts are put in order by randomly drawing them from a hat. Then, on election day, the order of ballots within each precinct is the order in which they are processed by election officials—with a small randomization procedure added in electronically at the precincts...
...Johnson discovered that someone had applied for a couple of credit cards in his name and had run up a $6,000 tab, it was late September and law-enforcement agencies were busy tracking down terrorists. Johnson, 31, a production assistant at a cable-channel website, called his local precinct in Brooklyn and was told the N.Y.P.D. was so swamped, the detectives couldn't do anything unless he had the perpetrator's name and address...
Johnson thought investigators were overloaded because of Sept. 11, but police say their response would have been pretty much the same had he called months earlier or phoned a precinct in Kansas City or Key West. In an age of instant credit, when you can apply online and start shopping within 30 seconds, identity theft has become an American epidemic. Calls to the fraud-victims help line at a national credit bureau have nearly doubled from the 522,922 received in 1997, and 86,168 identity-theft cases were reported to the Federal Trade Commission last year, making...
Ophelia knows three other women on her street who have had sons in and out of prison. In a three-block radius surrounding her house, there are roughly 50 to 100 men on parole, according to 2000 New York State division of parole data. The police precinct that includes Ophelia's block represents just 4% of Brooklyn's population but houses 10% of Brooklyn's parolees. When a young man disappears off the streets into prison, residents say, in a perverse euphemism, that he has "gone back home...
...FDE’s are often in a state of flux, continually subject to the threat of a crackdown by the local precinct or, far worse, a loss of the pluralistic nature that defines them. FDE’s have a tremendous and rare opportunity to be truly open-house, as they are not controlled by people with any interest except money (distinguishing them from most student-run parties), which means that no one need be nervous about being kicked out by the host. One might even go so far as to say that an FDE, in its consummately pluralistic...