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. Geographically as well as metaphorically, the Midwest found itself at the center of the nation s drug war last year. Awash in methamphetamine made cheaply with household products and other easily obtained chemicals, law enforcement agencies in prairie towns and large cities alike were overwhelmed by the use and manufacture of speed. Police in Tulsa, Okla., asked retailers to get identification from customers who purchase unusually large amounts of such products as coffee filters, fertilizer and automobile starting fluid.