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...that more money for the nation's 500,000 men in blue will not help much. Says Assistant Chief Herb Hartz of Tulsa, Okla.: "If the police could somehow become 20% more efficient, can you imagine what would happen? The courts are not equipped to handle that kind of load, and the prisons aren't equipped to handle it either." Indeed they are not. At this point, the President's new L.E.A.A. funds for improvement and innovation in criminal justice could be more usefully spent on the courts or prisons than on the police...
...most observers believe the process cannot be eliminated or even cut back significantly. Nationwide, 90% of serious crimes are now cleared by plea bargains. If the rate were cut even to 80%, the trial load would double, a devastating inundation. Says Chicago Judge Marvin Aspen resignedly: "Sometimes you have to rely on things which are antagonistic to the system just so the system won't fall apart...
...technology of North Sea production is indeed impressive. But the prospective financial benefits are hardly enough to send Britons into orbit. The nation last year suffered a $9 billion payments deficit; production from the small Argyll field off the east coast of Scotland-the first tapped-will lighten that load by only $140 million annually. The Argyll field and three others to be opened this year will supply a bare 2% of Britain's oil needs...
...city university makes from $24,000 to $38,000 a year; a teacher in the secondary-school system receives an annual salary ranging from $9,700 to $20,350. Teachers earn more pay, in fact, for less work. Fifteen years ago, a junior high school teacher had a work load of 30 45-min. periods a week, and was required to do a variety of other chores. Today the same teacher is responsible for 25 periods a week and cannot be asked to perform any extra functions. As they rise in the ranks, many teachers give up the classroom...
...year of unusually heavy negotiations. Harvard's three numerically largest labor unions all had contracts expiring this year, and the trend was to sign new contracts of a year in length, rather than the longer periods that make the University's administrative load easier...