Word: crashing
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...never really worked. I'll never forget the look my girls gave me when I proudly presented them with their first Hot Wheels Criss-Cross Crash Set. It was probably the same look I gave them when they took a perfectly good set of wooden building blocks and used them to make a day-care center rather than, say, a castle or a fort or a killer-gladiator death-match megahurt arena. Needless to say, I have yet to follow up with the awesome Hot Wheels Crashers 2 Backwoods Bomb Truck. I mean, why set myself up for that kind...
...should be provided for the development of "smart gun" technology which prevents everyone except the owner of a gun from using the weapon. And while the mandatory background check for purchasers at gun shows is a step in the right direction, it is not enough to redirect our current crash course towards more gun-related deaths. Anyone buying a gun should be subject to some background check and registered in a national database so that any gun used in a crime can be traced to its most recent owner...
That all changed when one of CRASH's own started talking. Perez says he was part of a tight-knit group of CRASH officers who played by twisted rules. This antigang fraternity acted a lot like a gang itself. When a new recruit joined the unit, CRASH members allegedly circled around and beat him--an initiation ritual that criminal gangs call "jumping in." In one case, a white CRASH officer leaving the scene of a police beating of a civilian--for which the city had to pay a $25,000 settlement--allegedly yelled out, "¡Puro Rampart! [Totally Rampart...
...collection of illegal acts, many as bizarre as they are disturbing. He told of one officer whose car tires were slashed. The cop and his partner tracked down the gang member they believed was responsible and dropped him--naked--in a rival gang's turf. Perez tells of another CRASH officer who shot a suspect repeatedly with a beanbag shotgun--a nonlethal weapon used to knock suspects to the ground...
Last week the L.A.P.D. scandal veered off in a new direction as charges surfaced that the police have illegally used deportation as a weapon. Perez reported that CRASH officers conducted routine street sweeps to check the immigration status of suspected gang members. That would violate a 21-year-old Los Angeles policy that in most cases bars the police from arresting illegal aliens and turning them over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. CRASH officers have also been accused of using the INS to have antipolice witnesses deported. They allegedly worked from a list of 10,000 Latinos they believed...