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 the New Jersey State Police won some lavish praise in October for the progress it made during the year in carrying out reforms under a 1999 consent decree, much of that good will managed to dissipate only a few weeks later with the release of internal documents showing that agency and state officials knew that troopers were targeting minority drivers at least three years before racial profiling was publicly acknowledged. The four-member team spent four weeks in August and five days in September interviewing troopers, listening to them calling in stops to the dispatch center and looking through documents. The report was the first of an anticipated 12 to come during the five-year agreement between the state and the U.S. Justice Department.