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...decision certainly suggests continuing ineptitude by personnel apparently ill-equipped to handle the pressures of the 24-hour news cycle they were sucked into a year ago. After all, it was less than six months ago that County Sheriff John Stone got into trouble for screening for TIME magazine reporter Tim Roche the tapes that Columbine killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris made prior to their deadly rampage. After a description of the tapes was published in TIME (parent, of course, of this web site), Stone denied that he gave Roche permission to describe what he saw. Roche says...
...Sheriff Stone and his colleagues, though, appear to be mostly between a rock and a hard place. Law enforcement work has always been a balancing act between the rights of individuals and the good of the public. And when that "public" can transform overnight from a community of quiet suburbanites and small weekly papers into a legion of lawyers and an international press corps, that balancing act becomes considerably more complex...
...video episode is a prime example of that complexity; as is the case with most news stories, the facts are considerably more shaded than the headlines. After all, the tape was crafted not by Sheriff Stone's staff, but by a member of the Littleton Fire Department - the sheriff was merely acting as custodian until a judge ruled that the tape be handed over to six of the victims' families, who had sued for its release as part of their efforts to prove that authorities mishandled the rescue and failed to heed warnings of the rampage. The Jefferson County...
...matter what the sheriff's office does there's a public backlash," says Roche. "It's true they may be somewhat na?ve in dealing with the media, and that may have contributed to their problems in the past, but in this case it seems they did what the families and the public wanted - they turned over the documents. This is a terribly complex case that any police force would have a hard time handling while keeping the public happy...
President-elect Vladimir Putin may have convinced Russia's lawmakers that there's a new sheriff in town, but that isn't giving those accused of corruption much cause for alarm. Putin on Wednesday succeeded where President Boris Yeltsin had twice failed - by getting Russia's upper chamber of parliament to dismiss general prosecutor Yuri Skuratov, Moscow's equivalent of the attorney general. But getting rid of Skuratov, who had refused to back down on an investigation into corruption inside the Kremlin - and then was publicly humiliated by a video showing him in bed with prostitutes - may be a sign...