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...honoring the NYPD. As Mayor Rudy Giuliani has frequently pointed out, if homicide rates had stayed at 1990 levels (when Mayor David Dinkins, who happens to be black, was in office), thousands more black and Hispanic New Yorkers would be dead. The tactics of squads like the Street Crimes Unit, to which the four officers who shot Diallo belong, have dramatically reduced crime and helped make New York the safest large city in the United States. The greatest tragedy of the Amadou Diallo case is that it has further alienated the black community from the officers who are meant...
...heart of the scandal is the Rampart division's Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, or CRASH. Perez is reportedly claiming that 70 to 80 members of this antigang unit were "in the loop," that is, acting a lot like gang members. Among their rituals: decorating their bodies with tattoos of grinning skulls and awarding themselves gruesome plaques for shooting perps...
...characteristic of that community did not much permeate the proceedings inside the courtroom. That, White says, presented a serious problem for the prosecution. Judge Joseph Teresi's strict guidelines and businesslike pace kept the district attorney's office from presenting evidence explicating the dynamic between the street crime unit and the citizens they were charged with protecting - a discussion that might have touched on the racially charged aspects of this case. "We can say with a great deal of confidence that if Amadou Diallo were white, he wouldn't have died like this," says White...
...have the luxury of running controls or tweaking variables ad infinitum; if the experiment fails, men and women die. In this regard, the callous disregard for national security evinced by those who spout entitlement talk is contemptible. At the same time, the exclusive emphasis of many conservatives on unit cohesion and effectiveness is more than slightly disquieting. Developed to its logical extreme, it can lead to--indeed has led to--truly totalitarian lengths...
Throughout World War II both the Nazi and Soviet armies achieved significant unit cohesion. Admittedly, there was nothing fuzzy or friendly about the means employed. Stalin had gunners open fire on deserters. The SS brutalized inhabitants of areas through which the Wehrmacht passed, leaving no doubt in the German soldiers' mind that local capture was not a viable option. German troops were also informed that desertion would result in retribution against their families. The moral repugnance of such techniques notwithstanding, they almost certainly contributed to tangible differences in military performance per capita. For every enemy soldier the American trooper killed...