Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard University Police Department provided small space rescue equipment, and one Facilities Maintenance employee joined Cambridge officials to help retrieve the victim...
Abramian, who has been homeless since he lost his job at the University, said he was the victim of a pattern of discriminatory treatment from supervisors, including disproportionate disciplinary measures and ethnic slurs...
...effective board is still a lot cheaper than an out-of-control police force. Louima, the victim in the latest assault, announced plans last week to file a $55 million lawsuit against the city. Though in the past Giuliani has defended officers accused of egregious violence, in this episode he opted swiftly for the victim. He also announced plans for six months of town meetings between New Yorkers and every one of the city's 38,000 officers. Maybe all that talk could have been avoided if the cops had earlier heard a clearer statement about brutality from the mayor...
...mother Ann complains, "I didn't hear from the health department until Aug. 9." And the hospital epidemiologist said Nicole's illness was the first the hospital knew of an E. coli outbreak--although it had been several weeks since that suspect patty was turned in by the first victim. Why did officials take so long to interview E. coli victims, and why didn't hospitals know of the outbreak until long after it was identified...
...enduring image of the Los Angeles Police Department--cops whaling away with nightsticks at a prostrate victim--was engraved on the nation's retina by the Rodney King beating in 1991. Greg Dossey's job for the past few years has been to reverse not just that image but the reality behind it as well. His efforts, along with some department-wide soul-searching, are paying off. There were 583 misconduct claims against Los Angeles police officers last year, about half the number recorded a decade earlier. Sixteen cases made it to court--by far the lowest number since...