Word: swatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reporter who covers crime knows that when the flash-bang goes off at the front door, the SWAT team is storming the back door," says correspondent Elaine Shannon. And so, when Pablo Escobar Gaviria, the ferocious leader of the Medellin drug cartel, surrendered to authorities in Colombia last week, Shannon knew that the real story lay elsewhere. "Escobar is a terrific sound- and-light show," she says. "But people of such towering stupidity always flame out." In her eyes, the group to watch is the Cali cartel. And, as deftly laid out by her in one of this week...
...populist. Her targets are special interests that have grown accustomed to kid-glove treatment from government. She stunned the chemical industry by forcing a two-year moratorium on the construction of new hazardous-waste sites and the expansion of existing ones and by proposing to set up an environmental SWAT team to enforce regulations that have long been ignored. She fired the entire top echelon of the corporation-minded commerce department and refocused the agency on small-business development and job training. She smacked the insurance industry by temporarily blocking a 26% increase in auto premiums and vowing to clamp...
While the Los Angeles Police Department has long relied on SWAT teams and helicopters for high-tech law enforcement, police departments in many other cities are turning to methods that are decidedly low tech. Their weapons of choice? A good pair of walking shoes and a gift for small talk, coupled with rigorous training in the basics of policing...
...Angeles force as a model of cool, dedicated efficiency. But with 8,300 officers serving an increasingly multiracial population of 3.4 million, the L.A.P.D. has the lowest officer-to-resident ratio of the nation's six largest police departments. To compensate, the L.A.P.D. pioneered the use of SWAT teams, helicopter pursuit and a motorized battering ram, tactics that differ markedly from the community-patrol approach many other cities have adopted...
Moral suasion, not legal action, is the best way to SWAT, ZIP or otherwise damage the Fly and other clubs of its ilk. Don't join them. Don't attend their parties. And hold club members and hangers--on accountable for their actions. They deserve to be pariahs in a community committed to social justice...