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Are you experienced?
This story deals with police brutality. It narrates the death of Mexican legal immigrant Luis Alfonso Torres after he was detained by three members of the Police Dept. of the city of Baytown, west of Houston (Texas). The detention was filmed by a camera mounted on one of the squad's car. When he was detained, Bernstein says, Torres was "suffering from hypertension" and unarmed. "It's bigger than the Rodney King video. After all, in this incident someone died", says a Houston-based Hispanic activist quoted in the story. "Cops killing Mexicans is not new to Harris County", Bernstein says and adds in 1999 the Mexican consulate "proposed a travel warning to advise fellow citizens against visiting Houston because of all the police shootings in the area."
Tags: Baytown Police; Harris County; Harris County District Attorney's Office; Texas ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union); Emergency Medical Service (EMS); Baytown Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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Brave New CU: The university at a crossroads
"The Colorado Daily's investigation initially centered around CU President John Buechner's Total Learning Environment initiative, but became focused on Buechner's administration and the CU Foundation after an early tip led us to question his hiring of a personal friend, Fran Raudenbush, to spearhead development of the TLS, the most expensive initiative in the university's history."
Tags: ACLU American Civil Liberties Union; FOIA; Colorado Open Records Act malfeasance Board of Trustees nepotism affair
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Snitches: Licensed to Lie
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that "According to the DEA, up to 90 percent of all federal drug busts result from tips by informants--most of whom, drug agents concede, are members of the criminal subculture. Without these informants, agents say, they couldn't do their jobs. But many civil libertarians and crime experts think the time has come to reexamine the wisdom of turning criminals into quasi-law enforcement agents."
Tags: smuggling Drug Enforcement Agency American Civil Liberties Union ACLU police Justice Department
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The Failure of the Adoption Machine
Governing Magazine reports that "America's child welfare system keeps thousands of abandoned children floating in foster care while stable families wait to adopt them. It's a matter of tragically misplaced priorities... The story of the failure of the District of Columbia's adoption machine is far from unique. It is the story of government adoption bureaucracies across the country.."
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Locked In
The National Journal reports that "An explosion in the nation's prison population is creating a fiscal black hole for state and federal governments. And the boom has created a powerful corporate constituency to protect prison budgets"
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Crime and punishment
U.S. News & World Report asks "Politicians are vowing to get tough, but will more prisons and fewer perks really cut crime?" U.S. News looks into the growing concern over crime in America. The American public wants tougher sentences, and fewer perks. The government agrees, but finds it difficult amid convict's lawsuits, and courts ruling against the justice system.
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FBI Files: Fulani's Party 'armed and dangerous'
Delaware County (Pa.) Daily Times reveals that the FBI conducted a four-month investigation of the New Alliance Party, a leftist group that ran Dr. Lenora Fulani for U.S. president in 1988 and again in 1992. "... the FBI had snooped on the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) and other American activists working in Central America. At the same time the FBI was vigorously defending its CISPES investigation, it was quietly opening an inquiry of another left-of-center group, the New Alliance Party.... The inquiry has also attracted the attention of the American Civil Liberties Union."
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Washington Monthly articles evaluate the best and the worst of the 2,000 public interest groups in Washington; asks why the American Civil Liberties Union should be among the best, but isn't, March 1988.