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...cities. Among them: Washington, Los Angeles, Atlanta. Some police forces have wisely hired more black officers. In Detroit, which also has a 'black mayor, fully 40% of the force is black, compared with a mere 6% in the late '60s. (By contrast, only 106 of Dade County's 1,501-member force are black.) Yet even in Detroit, Mayor Coleman Young says of racial violence in his city: "The threat is real. The unrest is real...
...early morning of Dec. 17, a Dade County police sergeant spotted McDuffie speeding on his orange and black Kawasaki motorcycle. McDuffie, who had lost his driving license for paying a previous traffic fine with a bad check, gunned the cycle. According to police, he ran a series of red lights at speeds of up to 100 m.p.h. before he finally slowed down. By this time, more than a dozen policemen had closed in. The initial police report claimed that McDuffie's cycle had crashed, injuring him. This report also said that he fought off the police until they subdued...
Even before McDuffie died, investigators began picking apart the official version of what had happened. A departmental inquiry led to eight Dade County policemen being dismissed. Five went on trial on charges ranging from second-degree murder to tampering with evidence. They were Alex Marrero, Ira Diggs, Michael Watts, Eddie Del Toro and Herbert Evans...
...Cuban America. The heavy infusion of Spanish-speaking Latins into southern Florida has been one factor in making blacks there (citizens with deep and painful roots in the American past) feel even more intensely wronged than blacks elsewhere in the nation. Latins argue that the Cubans (450,000 in Dade County alone) have accelerated business development, brought fresh blood and vigor to the area, and thus more jobs. That is true. In fact, the entire logic of immigration rests upon the fact that immigrants are almost always an asset, a new presence, a little bit frightened and often left ingenious...
Whites as well object that newcomers overtax the housing (the vacancy rate in Dade County is less than 1%), the over burdened schools and other public services. Beyond the matter of fairness to American blacks and other minorities, the new Cuban infusion raises questions about what is fair to other refugees and immigrants. Millions of people around the world want to get into America; they pay the nation the compliment of a sometimes desperate yearning to settle here. There are now 9 million foreigners applying, and only a small percentage of them will get the chance to enter...