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...Crimson let a golden opportunity slip away at 12:44 of the first period when its 1:17 two-man advantage expired with barely a shot on goal, thanks to a beleaguered Harvard power play unit and a surprisingly tight RPI defense...
...thing, our forechecking is getting better," Catlin said. "We're becoming a more cohesive unit. Things are finally starting to come together...
...home for Amadou Diallo was an apartment in the Soundview section of the Bronx. It was just after midnight, a time when the city's elite Street Crime Unit could often be seen patrolling the poorest neighborhoods. The SCU's motto said as much: We Own the Night. The unit had been expanded, perhaps too quickly, from 150 undercover officers to nearly 400. Recruits were given only three days of intensive training. The unit belonged to no precinct and was based on one of the islets in the East River, isolated from every borough but having the freedom...
...upshot has been the biggest police scandal in Los Angeles history. At the center is the Rampart division--a police station in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods--and its special antigang unit. In the six months since Perez started talking, lurid revelations about law enforcement Rampart-style have emerged almost daily: allegations that cops raped a woman while on duty; accusations that a cop interrogating a handcuffed man beat him until he vomited blood; a fast-growing list of prisoners who were allegedly railroaded with fabricated evidence and police lies...
Last week the FBI joined the campaign to root out public corruption and civil rights abuses. The G-men assigned to the case have joined a crowd of other investigators--the civilian police commission, the Los Angeles district attorney's office, the police department's internal-affairs unit along with a special task force. Following in their wake: an army of private lawyers who have been flooded with calls from alleged Rampart victims. By the time all the civil rights lawsuits are resolved, Los Angeles could face hundreds of millions of dollars in liability. Mayor Richard Riordan has called...