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. Criminologists warned when the FBI s Uniform Crime Reports for 1999 were released in October that a smaller than expected dip in the murder tallies of major cities indicated a slowing down of the nation s longest-ever sustained crime reduction. Sure enough, the subsequent release of figures from the first half of 2000 seemed to indicate even more strongly that the party s over. Crime dropped by 7 percent in 1999 over the previous year s figures, making it the eight straight year of declines.