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.
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Help wanted signs spring up throughout law enforcement. 34 years later, the Miranda decision has a new day in court. Recent polls continue to find that Americans support the death penalty by a substantial margin, yet the beliefs of even capital punishment s staunchest advocates seemed shaken in 2000, with prosecutors and others calling for DNA testing of death-row inmates and studies finding significant judicial errors and disparities in an alarming percentage of cases. The year began with a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois, where Republican Gov. George Ryan halted all executions on Jan. 31 and appointed a 12-member panel to both study the issue and give the public the opportunity to address flaws in the state s system. Until I can be sure that everyone sentenced to death in Illinois is truly guilty until I can be sure with moral certainty that no innocent man or woman is facing lethal injection no one will meet that fate, said Ryan.