Maitland is one of at least 27 persons who were arrested. Police are said to be inspecting their videos, as they did following the Million Youth March, to find others they can arrest. As in the Million Youth March, most of the police attacks came as the crowd was dispersing. Public reaction to recent events involving the police and to Giuliani's obsessive tirades against critics of the police has been such that Republican strategists, insisting on anonymity, told The New York Times that they fear he is jeopardizing his own campaign for U.S. Senate and the Republican political position generally. District attorneys told The New York Times that they find it more difficult to prosecute cases because jurors are now skeptical of police testimony.
Politicians exploit situation Democratic politicians are seeking to take advantage of the situation.
Hillary Clinton, who is running for U.S. Senate against Giuliani, has rebuked him for lack of judicial restraint. She herself, however, is far from a crusader for social justice, being very careful not to come on too strongly against police brutality. On the one occasion that she overstepped her self-imposed limits by referring to the killers of Diallo as murderers, she apologized, explaining that she, unlike Giuliani, is capable of admitting mistakes. There have been, however, frequent investigations by different commissions in the past of police brutality and corruption in various cities, including a federal investigation of the police in Philadelphia in 1995. Always the result has been the same-shocking revelations, promises of reform, and a continuation of the old practices by a police force whose power is unimpaired.