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...remains endemic in some quarters. "This is a major problem in this country, particularly in urban areas," says Norman Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. In truth, no one keeps reliable national statistics. And local claims are suspect. A decline in complaints to local police review boards doesn't necessarily prove that there are fewer occurrences; critics say that such complaints in New York are down because abused citizens have given up. Despite more than 16,000 complaints against New York cops since 1993, only 180 officers have been disciplined, most of them with just...
What constitutes effective oversight of that service remains a big question. As a means for exposing and punishing police misconduct, civilian review boards have a mixed reputation. Many have no subpoena power and meager investigative staff, which leaves them powerless to get to the bottom of cases. While the New York board is supposed to be made up entirely of civilians, a majority of its members are former law-enforcement officials, prosecutors and lawyers. "What is needed is an independent board of civilians who are trained in investigating complaints," says N.Y.C.L.U. head Siegel...
...pick on Sara Lee. At least a third of all FORTUNE 500 companies regularly review health information before making hiring decisions. And that's nothing compared with what awaits us when employers and insurance companies start testing our DNA for possible imperfections. Farfetched? More than 200 subjects in a case study published last January in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics reported that they had been discriminated against as a result of genetic testing. None of them were actually sick, but DNA analysis suggested that they might become sick someday. "The technology is getting ahead of our ethics," says Nagel...
...retreat. At first Dr. Thomas Reardon, chairman of the A.M.A.'s board of trustees, argued, "The A.M.A. has moved into the public health arena with much greater force, and that takes money." But the criticism must have hit home. Late last week, Reardon says, the A.M.A. decided to review several aspects of the program, including "the exclusive nature of the contract." If only belatedly, then, the A.M.A. seems poised to apply Hippocrates' maxim: Above all, do no harm...
Your article on Elvis Presley Enterprises and the licensing of Elvis memorabilia [BUSINESS, Aug. 4] had me howling over E.P.E. president Priscilla Presley's astute insight into how Americans value their dead icons. And your review of riches generated since the King's death reminded me of an Elvis-impersonators convention in Las Vegas. Some 20,000 would-be Elvises attended the gathering in 1977, a 5000% increase over 1975. Had the impersonator trend continued geometrically through 1997, there might now be full national employment due to the tens of millions of Elvis wannabes. Just think, Priscilla Presley could displace...