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...Though "critical situations" rarely occur at Fair Harvard, the men and women of the HUPD are fully trained to deal with shoot-outs, crack busts and grand theft auto--should it arise. Like any other police agents, they attend a six-month training school where they learn the intricacies of criminal law, first aid, CPR, court procedures, self-defense, patrol procedure and firearm training. Think police academy, but without Proctor. Each officer packs a gun, along with other implements of destruction like batons and mace, for stunning even the most rabid pre-med intent on stealing a little nitrous after...
...Crime was unbelievable here, even as recently as five years ago. It was not so much violent crime, but a lot of theft," said an officer in the MIT police department who requested to remain anonymous. "Now we have to really hunt for something...
...identification," he says. Giry explains that the cards themselves are inexpensive to produce, so that the only brake on use has been unwillingness of merchants to invest in readers and communications devices. The countries that have not adopted smart cards have been waiting until losses from fraud and theft start to outweigh the costs of updating hardware...
Since testifying against former employer and Mob boss John Gotti, SALVATORE (Sammy the Bull) GRAVANO has been organized crime's No. 1 pariah. But turning state's evidence looks like petty theft when compared with the sins Gravano may have committed against Mafia style. Last week the former hit man, 54, was arrested with his wife, 24-year-old son and 27-year-old daughter and charged with financing an interstate drug ring that specialized in selling tabs of the rave drug Ecstasy to teenagers. Teenagers! Even worse, Gravano's alleged pushers were members of a white-supremacist youth gang...
Bunn said Russia's depressed economy, combined with theft and corruption, results in serious risks that plutonium or HEU could fall into "the wrong hands...