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. While it has yet to achieve all of its objectives, the Justice Department s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services should nevertheless be considered an overwhelmingly successful venture, according to a report last year that evaluated how close the COPS office has come to its goal of putting 100,000 new officers on the street and fostering the concept of community policing. I think our phrase was it provided the fuel and not the accelerator pad, Roth told Law Enforcement News. Although it has not hit its target of having 100,000 new police on the beat, said the report, funding for 100,500 officers and equivalents had been allocated as of May 1999.