Word: reportable
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...traditional English architecture and materials. Some are privately owned, others government subsidized. All are highly energy efficient. The town layout prefers people over cars: front doors give onto streets that are safer for children because the roads are too winding to allow cars to speed. A 1998 British government report cited Poundbury as an example for future developments because its efficient use of space permits a higher population density, thus fighting sprawl. As a skeptical journalist noted after touring Poundbury, "the Prince of Wales has got it right." To which the Prince could reply, "Seeing is believing...
...watched the city's harassment campaign increase dramatically in February 1999 after 11 environmental groups praised Gatto's record in a highly publicized report critiquing the administration of New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for its failure to support its environmental police. Gatto was effectively demoted when another officer was placed above him in charge of environmental enforcement. DEP officials reassigned Gatto's car, replacing it with a worn-out wreck with 156,000 miles on it and no working two-way radio. (He's since been given a newer model.) Meanwhile, the city started an investigation against Gatto...
...black youth, 16-year-old Antoine Jones, was arrested Tuesday for the shooting, there was little public opposition to the DA's decision to charge him as as an adult. But could such a move have been a racist act? Maybe. On Wednesday, researchers released the most comprehensive report ever to study racial disparities in punishing youth offenders, and its findings have opened lawmakers' eyes across the nation. The study, titled "And Justice for Some," was sponsored by a host of federal agencies, private foundations and think tanks, and found that minorities are treated more harshly at each level...
...report is particularly troubling because it seems to indicate that roadblocks are being thrown in the way of the juvenile justice system that are preventing it from meeting its major goal. Unlike the adult justice system, which has the simultaneous aims of punishing and rehabilitating convicted criminals, the juvenile system was established with the sole goal of rehabilitation. And it's no secret that incarceration - particularly in the adult prison system - is less likely to be rehabilitative than alternative punishments, such as drug treatment and group therapy. This study suggests that wayward minority youths, particularly African-Americans, are given less...
Unlike many academic reports that make their way into the news, this effort seems to stand a good chance of having an immediate policy impact. Congress, which is gung-ho to adopt a get-tough attitude toward a perceived rise in juvenile crime, is currently considering legislation to make it easier for violent juvenile offenders to be tried as adults. At the same time that the report was released, leaders of such minority advocacy groups as the NAACP and the Urban League issued requests for Congress to both hold off on the legislation and free up to $100 million...