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 no less conservative than ever, the Rehnquist Court showed last year that it was still capable of a surprise or two, especially where law enforcement was concerned. In at least two decisions handed down in 2000, the Supreme Court chose to protect individual liberties over public safety interests, prohibiting the establishment of drug-interdiction checkpoints and refusing to adopt an automatic firearms exception to guidelines concerning anonymous tips. On Nov. 28 the Court ruled 6-3 in City of Indianapolis v. Edmond that erecting random roadblocks for the purpose of spotting illegal drugs violated the Fourth Amendment.