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...certainly would endorse and support any efforts to pass laws with tighter controls or limit body armor falling in the hands of people who should not have it," says Michael Foreman, senior vice president of sales for Point Blank and a 35-year veteran of the Orange County Sheriff's Department. But the fact is, laws against civilian use and purchase are sparse and often difficult to enforce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Armor | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...along the border at least, the plan is being largely applauded by law-enforcement officials who feel their region was neglected during both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidencies. "This was a long time coming," says Richard Wiles, the Democratic sheriff of El Paso County, Texas, which sits across the Rio Grande from Juárez, Mexico - a city that has seen almost 2,000 drug-related murders since the start of 2008, with many of the victims being police officers, not to mention the epidemic of kidnappings and extortion. (Nationwide, Mexico had almost 7,000 narco-killings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Other War: Fighting Mexico's Drug Lords | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

Jindal, Gov. Bobby • story told by about having been in sheriff's office "during Katrina" and witnessing bureaucratic asininity turns out to be, well, let's call it embellished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...lashing Royal gives Sarkozy, whom she variously describes as vulgar, avaricious and (gasp) boringly predictable. "His energy is impressive, but he really is a show-off," Royal says, claiming Sarkozy's quest for money and power leaves him looking ridiculous once he's attained it. "With his little sheriff's star and his plastic gun, his cowboy outfit, it's as if he had climbed up on the biggest horse in the merry-go-round and plucked down the prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ségolène Royal's Book-Length Whine | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...years before, a nut in a miner's suit and mask killed a bunch of high school kids with appropriate tools, mainly a pickax. Now he, or a copycat, is again bloodily reducing the population - as if the Rust Belt didn't have enough problems. The principles here are sheriff Axel Palmer (Kerr Smith), his wife Sarah (horror honey Jaime King) and the mine owner's son Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), who was Sarah's beau back in the previously awful day. To secure an R rating, the film has halved corpses, a fetus eviscerated from its victim's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mall Cop and Other Disreputable Pleasures | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

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