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The Mayor Who Didn't Want To Know
The Mayor Who Didn't Want To Know - And the Whistleblowers Who Tried To Alert Him Perhaps the fairest way to judge the competence, integrity, and character of a government is how it responds when credible information about misconduct is brought to its attention. Any administration can suffer a scandal, because the susceptibility to temptation has been part of human nature since the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Any of us can be fooled or betrayed by a subordinate.
The Knapp Connection
The Knapp Connection March 1, 1973 On December 29, 1972, the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and the City’s Anti-Corruption Procedures, popularly known as the Knapp Commission, presented its final report to the Mayor and the people of the City of New York. It is a remarkable document, 264 pages of neat, colorless lawyers’ prose, calmly setting forth the most lurid tales of crime, corruption, and bloody murder, the last days of Sodom described by an accountant.
The Crisis of Public Order
Title I of the 1994 crime bill intends to add 100,000 police officers nationally by the year 2000. (Most experts believe that far fewer new officers—perhaps 25,000—will actually be hired. For the purposes of this argument, though, let us assume the larger figure.) There are now some 554,000 officers serving on all state and local police forces; 100,000 more would be an increase of 18.4 percent.
I Was RFK’s Speechwriter. Now I’m Voting for Trump. Here’s Why.
I was a Democrat all my life. I came to Washington to serve President John Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. When the president was murdered and his brother struck off on his own, I joined his Senate campaign and staff as his legislative assistant and speechwriter, until his presidential campaign ended with his own assassination. I ran on a (losing) Democratic ticket in the New York state elections of 1970.
The mistake of mistrusting officers of the law
By the standards of history and current national practice, the Baltimore riots were mild, and controlled with relative ease. Some officers were injured by thrown rocks, but there were no gunshots at or from the police. No substantial violence was directed at reporters or other citizens, and the burning and looting of stores was minimal; the bulk of the city was untouched. This was the work not of vicious adults but of undisciplined and untutored children, students from three local high schools.
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