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Over the years, television programs such as Dragnet and Adam 12 have portrayed the Los Angeles force as a model of cool, dedicated efficiency. But with 8,300 officers serving an increasingly multiracial population of 3.4 million, the L.A.P.D. has the lowest officer-to-resident ratio of the nation's six largest police departments. To compensate, the L.A.P.D. pioneered the use of SWAT teams, helicopter pursuit and a motorized battering ram, tactics that differ markedly from the community-patrol approach many other cities have adopted...
...this life. What about you and yours? Not only you who would follow George Bush or anyone else to your death, who would follow them to the deaths of others, who would yourselves lead others to death, who would become an element in the determination of the "kill ratio." But you who would make me think like you or not think at all, who want me to "grow up," "stick it out," "take it like a man," who will think that it took guts even to print this, who will never understand what I thought the moment I, too, considered...
With the populous Arab world already outspending the Israelis on defense by a 14:1 ratio, American policymakers have given up on the hopelessly skewed Arab/Israeli balance of power. Instead, they have focused on restoring the Arab/Arab balance of power. Last December, for instance, the U.S. completed a $20 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia. In Israel's entire history, it has only received $23 billion worth of American military equipment...
...California, where Feinstein has had to relyon over $3 million of husband Richard Blum's moneyto finance her gubernatorial bid, the ratio lookssimilar. looks similar...
...clear what the risk-benefit ratio is with the use of this type of drug, which has known side effects, such as the irritation of the stomach and the potential for increased bleeding," he said...