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...wholesale price per kilo has plummeted 50%, from $60,000 in 1981 to $30,000 now. "They've got to move the inventory," says Sergeant Skip Pearson of the Metro-Dade Organized Crime Bureau. "It's like an end-of-the-year sale." Explains Bureau Commander Arthur Nehrbass: "Right now, it's a buyer's market. We've been offered coke at $28,000 per kilo on credit, with two weeks...
...most precious asset, its human capital. At stake, too, is simple human dignity. If wolves and bears and birds take meticulous care of their young, why are human beings subjecting theirs to whippings and punches and sexual perversion? Children, with their unrestrained love and unquestioning trust, deserve better. Says Sergeant Dick Ramon, head of the sex-crimes unit of the Seattle police department: "Child abuse is the ultimate crime, the ultimate betrayal." -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Meg Grant/Los Angeles and James Wilde/New York
...domestic-disturbance calls is the bane of policemen everywhere. "We end it for an hour or two and do a lot of paper work," says Officer Lawrence Santos of Harlem's 25th Precinct. To a frightened woman, though, even a reluctant policeman offers more hope than an insensitive one. Sergeant Louis Mancuso of Manhattan's Ninth Precinct, for example, does not think arrests are always the best solution. He believes there are often extenuating circumstances, observing after hearing about one brutal assault, "Maybe she wasn't giving him what he needed sexually." Detroit Executive Deputy Police Chief James Bannon explains...
...machine with rubber belts placed across the stomach and chest, electrodes attached to the fingertips and a blood-pressure cuff wrapped around the arm. The sensors measure pulse rate, blood pressure, breathing and perspiration as the subject answers a series of yes-or-no questions. Explains Sergeant Michael McFadden of the Washington police department: "There's always a fear attached when somebody lies, and that causes a physical reaction that can be read." Professional polygraphers say their tests are reliable in more than 90% of the cases if interpreted by a competent examiner. But University of Minnesota Professor David...
...statute is the only one of its kind in the U.S. Sergeant Bob Stocksdale of the state police's narcotics division is hopeful. "We're glad to see this law," he says. "If you get the narcotics dealer in the wallet, that will knock him down. But we just flat don't know yet how, or if, it will work...