Law Enforcement News Vol. Fallout from Elian Gonzalez case claims the career of Miami chief. Customs Service leads the charge against growing drug fad. Supreme Court s new curb on luggage searches.
Frustrated ranchers take illegal-alien problem into their own hands.
Working in an NYPD station house can be hazardous to a cop s health. The change could foreseeably increase more than fivefold the number of reports filed each year, from approximately 210 to as many as 1,100 a year. Between 1996 and 1998, the number of federal law enforcement personnel rose by some 8,000 officers, to a total of 83,000. The largest hike in both number and percentage of staff was found in the INS, which swelled its ranks by 4,149 officers and grew by 33 percent. The loss of key municipal and public safety officials began when Mayor Joe Carollo, angered that O Brien did not notify him that the boy was to be taken away in a pre-dawn raid on April 22, ordered Warshaw to fire the police chief.