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...then there are Francisco's two linemates, sophomores Kiirsten Suurkask and Tara Dunn, both of whom can play center and wing. Although they did not get a chance to pad their stats on the nation's best power-play unit, they both displayed excellent passing and stickhandling skills and should not have a problem assuming more responsibilities in the offensive zone next season...
...officers who shot Diallo were members of the elite street-crimes unit, a plainclothes force charged with getting guns off the street. The unit makes up 1% of the police department but seizes 40% of guns recovered in New York. Critics say the unit, whose unofficial motto is "We own the night," cuts legal corners and is too quick to resort to force. "You have to have a new paradigm of policing," says Ron Daniels, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. "This gung-ho, military-type, fraternity-style policing has got to change...
...particular sore point is the unit's aggressive use of "stop and frisk" tactics. Of the 27,061 people its officers frisked last year, more than 80% were unarmed, which suggests that the cops felt they needed little in the way of probable cause to stop someone. Critics say the frisks are overly intrusive and unequally applied. "They will shake you down because of the color of your skin or the way you dress," charges Dinkins. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan last week launched a probe of N.Y.P.D. tactics...
Last Friday, Safir appointed a black officer to the No. 2 position in the street-crimes unit. (Black leaders dismiss the move as window dressing.) Both Safir and Giuliani have emphatically denied that the police are guilty of misconduct or racial bias. The Diallo controversy, Giuliani says, has been stirred up by political activists and the scandal-hungry press. In fact, he points out, fatal shootings by police are at their lowest level in 13 years. The police department is controversial, its supporters say, because it has been doing its job vigorously. And they note that it has been phenomenally...
...Customs Commissioner RAY KELLY is adding agents and money to his agency's strategic-investigations unit because of Chinese efforts to smuggle out advanced U.S. weapons components and know-how. Last month agents thwarted China's second attempt to obtain military gyroscopes used in guidance systems for "smart" munitions, missiles and fighter aircraft. More customs cases are under way involving Chinese efforts to pilfer so-called critical technologies. FBI counterespionage specialists fear that the problem of spying isn't confined to Chinese visitors to the national labs. The FBI is taking a hard look at activities by scientists from several...