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...Samp, he says he hopes to remain connected to city elections by serving as a precinct warden after he steps down from the commission on March...
Detective Mark Fuhrman-- who found a bloody glove on O.J. Simpson's estate -- clashed with Judge Lance Ito's wife, Peggy York, when both worked at a Los Angeles precinct years ago, according to the lawyer for the detective. "Mark and she did not see eye to eye," said the attorney, Robert Tourtelot. Yesterday, O.J. Simpson's attorneys asked for a hearing to explore if York played any role in an internal investigation of Fuhrman when they worked together. The hearing will be conducted Monday.Post your opinion on theCrimebulletin board...
...wore uniforms. "Look -- they throw stones at us," he said, motioning for another man to come out from the back. Two white gauze pads, daubed with wet blood, dangled fron his skull and neck. "See," he said. "They want to kill us." Just then, the crowd surged toward the precinct house. One of the police ran out to the gateway wildly swinging a machete. This infuriated the mob, who responded with barrage after barrage of stones. Inside the post the pounding of rocks on the corrugated zinc roof and hollow cinder-block walls was deafening. The police nervously grabbed their...
...obvious culprit -- the tension of living forever in the cross hairs. Veteran officers and the experts who study them agree that the pressure on police officers actually comes from some surprising sources. The most crushing battles, they argue, often occur not on the streets but in the rundown precinct houses, and the courtrooms, and the $ privacy of their own homes. Too often, police complain, the commanders and commissioners who cops imagined would guide and protect them seem to ignore or betray them instead. "Frequently, officers feel that somewhere on the line between lieutenant and captain, these people change," says Scott...
...Washington mayor Marion Barry astonished even his most fervent supporters by trouncing city council member John Ray and incumbent mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly in the Democratic mayoral primary. Kelly, who won four years ago as a reformer in the wake of Barry's arrest, did not win a single precinct...