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. In fact, this year saw a challenge to the technology s expanded use by a Justice Department panel, while schemes by prisoners and suspects threatened to topple belief in the technique s infallibility. Much to the dismay of some police and prosecutors, the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence said in November that it would recommend that the growing practice of using voluntary DNA samples to link the donor to other unsolved crimes be curbed. At present, police in Indiana, Illinois, Florida and New York employ it, but the tactic is outlawed in Alaska, Wisconsin and Vermont.