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...this victory is a pyrrhic if the costs are our constitutional rights and the racially-neutral law enforcement in America. Focusing on disorderly offenses has permitted and indeed invited over-zealous and discriminatory street policing of the kind that led to the Diallo tragedy and daily indignities. According to the state attorney general, blacks are stopped 2.1 times more often than whites in New York...
...yahoos love to rebut any gun control argument with, "guns don't kill people. People kill people." But despite their at times over-zealous rhetoric, there is some truth to this statement. Most who use guns for violent crimes are smart enough to acquire them illegally. If someone is going to be running drugs or robbing liquor stores, they are probably not attending gun shows at local expo centers or stores where they must deal with licensing. Instead, they turn to the illegal market for guns; something only controllable through tougher crime measures. This market is what needs regulating...
Thanks to a constitutional amendment past last week, dining hall tabling will now be mandatory for all council members, rather than the domain of a zealous...
Much of this preoccupation can be initially attributed to over-zealous parents. When I came here for pre-frosh weekend, the free Confi guide I received (if you haven't seen it, that is because it's now online) had a picture of two parents who were certifiably freaking out with their eyeballs bulging and their mouths agape in terror. "Our son's concentrating in Folk and Myth" read the caption. My parents didn't react in quite the same way, at least not within my earshot. But they were under the impression, perhaps, that this was all "just...
...York's police department has been under increased scrutiny in the past several years; high-profile cases of police brutality have brought unwelcome attention to Mayor Rudy Giuliani's zealous law-and-order practices. The rising tensions in New York between minorities and police officers spurred a judge to relocate the trial to Albany, which is overwhelmingly white, rather than continue the proceedings in the Bronx, where the shooting occurred. Taking the trial out of the city, says White, is an injustice for everyone involved. "Moving this case was a slap in the face of the people of the Bronx...