Yet, the Training Council denied that such information is in the curriculum. Furthermore, Dr. Michael Burns, a toxicologist and emergency medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said the claim was spurious and unscientific. Frank Pasquarello, a spokesman for the Cambridge Police, said Gutoski's assertion was not racially biased and was intended to protect the officer. Pasquarello added that Cambridge officers do not spray minorities with longer bursts of pepper spray. Two Middleton, Connecticut, police detectives were shot last week after a stakeout of a teenager wanted for questioning about a murder turned violent.
Police also report that both survived the shooting because they wore bulletproof vests.
Ortiz has since confessed to the murder in question. Polaroid, Eastman Kodak, and Digital Equipment have also furthered the tribunal's cause by donating global positioning systems, digital cameras, and other photographic equipment. Digital Biometrics is the leader in the identification systems market and the top supplier of computer-based fingerprint capture products to law enforcement and commercial customers. ITN receives fingerprint records, directs workflow for search engines of record databases, retrieves possible matches, and presents them for human confirmation. IDIS scans fingerprint images and demographic data into electronic FBI ten-print cards, and transmits the data by email to state agencies.