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...POLICE, Sept. 11]. The law-enforcement officer is a product of the environment. Morale is at an all-time low. Even lower is public perception of law enforcement, one of the few careers in which you are seldom praised for doing a good job. After putting in the long, tedious hours, after experiencing the gut-wrenching fear of another dangerous arrest, and after completing mountains of paperwork, it is disheartening to go into the courtroom and see the now clean-shaven defendant, wearing a suit and tie, walk out with a slap on the wrist. In U.S. society now everyone...
Last week, The Crimson reported on the effects of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act at Harvard. The University's Peabody Museum now has to catalog approximately eight million objects at a total cost estimated at several million dollars. The task might seem burdensome and tedious, but we think it is time--and money--well spent...
There was high drama again at the endless-and, in recent weeks, tedious-O.J. Simpson murder trial. The possibility of a mistrial was raised when a visibly emotional Judge Lance Ito agreed with the prosecution that he might be unable to act impartially if 11 hours of taped interviews with prosecution witness Detective Mark Fuhrman were introduced as evidence. The interviews allegedly contain derogatory comments about Ito's wife Captain Margaret York, who is the L.A.P.D.'s highest-ranking female officer. (More to the evidentiary point, Simpson defense lawyers contend that the tapes contain passages in which Fuhrman discusses...
These days Stacks is looking forward to hands-on coverage after several years of desk-bound labor. Those of us back at headquarters hope the road won't be too captivating. Stacks is a pleasure to have around, the man who, in a tedious meeting, makes the bull's-eye remark that sets the whole room laughing-and thinking...
...introduce into evidence more than 40 graphic autopsy and crime-scene photos of the two slashed victims, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Judge Ito said the probative value of the "horrible" photos outweighed any prejudicial impact they might have. Most of the week's testimony involved further -- frequently tedious -- wrangling over the prosecution's blood evidence...