It might be in your genes. Welcome technical advances come in small packages. Despite a manpower buildup, frustrations are building along the border with Mexico. New Jersey remains ground zero in the racial profiling uproar. Seattle becomes a code word for protest.
Speed is the name of the game on the drug front.
Help wanted signs spring up throughout law enforcement. 34 years later, the Miranda decision has a new day in court. Help wanted With few exceptions last year, law enforcement agencies found themselves in the once-unthinkable position of having to compete with the private sector as well as with each other for qualified applicants who would have been readily available if not for the robust economy. The personnel crisis was all the more acute for some departments whose ranks were significantly depleted by attrition, as retirement caught up with officers hired during the 1970s, while many younger officers simply packed it in, overwhelmed by job-related frustrations. The array of personnel quandaries facing law enforcement sparked numerous changes in hiring and recruitment, as some departments questioned the feasibility of existing college requirements, while others fought against proposed higher education prerequisites on the grounds that it was already tough enough getting people to apply.