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...were spent at the Harvard police department. There’s no doubt about it.” During his time at Harvard, Walsh was a stalwart proponent of protecting students and taking a “more paternal approach”—not seeking solely to punish them, according to Barbara Walsh. In the aftermath of an Aug. 8, 2008 incident in which HUPD officers confronted a young black man attempting to remove a lock from his own bicycle, Walsh wrote a firmly-worded letter to the district attorney of Boston to voice his concern about...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former HUPD Capt., Giving Soul, Dies at 91 | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...investigation concluded that Israel's January offensive in Gaza had been "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population." It also slammed the Jewish state's economic blockade of the territory. At the same time, it accused Hamas of war crimes for firing rockets at Israeli civilians. Israel, which refused to cooperate with the probe, slammed it as biased and accused it of "rewarding terrorism." That follows the pattern of Israel's dismissal of a steady stream of similar assessments of the Gaza operation by Israeli and international human rights organizations. On the basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.N. War Crimes Allegation Won't Change Israel's Calculations | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...more alarmed than Washington hawks are U.S. allies in former Soviet-controlled territories. Already, the limits of what former Soviet-satellite states can expect from the West was cruelly demonstrated last year, when the U.S. was unable to do anything to prevent Russian tanks from rolling into Georgia to punish that country's military for attacking South Ossetia. The missile-shield decision will confirm fears that Washington's power to roll back Russian influence in the region is waning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Shelves U.S. Missile Shield: The Winners and Losers | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

Elledge and the city police department have consistently refused to comment on the case. But Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, says police officers are not out to systematically punish people who mouth off. "There is certainly no substitute for good judgment on the street," says Pasco, whose organization represents officers nationwide, including Pittsburgh, "and if in the officer's judgment, maintenance of order is going to be preserved by giving a citation or making an arrest, then the officer is going to use his judgment to make that arrest or issue that citation." (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Have the Right to Flip Off a Cop? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...Hackbart, a paralegal who learned about court rulings on vulgar language in a communications-law class, says police should not be able to punish people by issuing citations they know to be unconstitutional. Elledge "shouldn't be allowed to conduct himself like that with no repercussions," he says. "Does everybody have to go through this to defend themselves against a bogus charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Have the Right to Flip Off a Cop? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

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