NEWS
By Bradley Olson | July 7, 2008
With Congress on the verge of outlining new parameters for National Security Agency eavesdropping between suspicious foreigners and Americans, lawmakers are leaving largely untouched a host of government programs that critics say involves far more domestic surveillance than the wiretaps they sought to remedy. These programs - most of them highly classified - are run by an alphabet soup of federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies. They sift, store and analyze the communications, spending habits and travel patterns of U.S. citizens, searching for suspicious activity.
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By New York Times News Service | April 2, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The account, buried in a mountain of documents assembled for a congressional investigation, describes a decidedly local yet brutal crime: a Navajo man charged with beating his girlfriend nearly to death and then hanging her by a rope outside their Arizona trailer home to make the attack look like a suicide attempt. The incident has none of the political intrigue of the other cases, mainly dealing with government corruption or voter fraud, before lawmakers as they examine the circumstances surrounding the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
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By KARL BICKEL | July 27, 2006
A growing problem for our nation's law enforcement community is the "cop crunch" that is leaving police departments across the country understaffed. The solution to this growing crisis is for Congress to reconstitute the Law Enforcement Education Program to attract qualified men and women to the field. From coast to coast, it is estimated that 80 percent of the nation's 17,000 state and local law enforcement agencies have vacancies they cannot fill. The Los Angeles Police Department has more than 700 vacancies, and in March, New York City announced plans to hire 800 more officers.
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By NICK SHIELDS | July 19, 2006
As Maryland Transportation Authority officer Verlon Morrow drove an unmarked Pontiac yesterday on Interstate 95 just north of Baltimore, about a half-dozen cars zoomed past, doing at least 80 mph. On this stretch of highway, Morrow says, he finds an almost unlimited array of aggressive drivers. "Look how close these people are to each other," he said. "They teach you not to do that in Driving 101." Morrow is among the police officers from Maryland and beyond who are set to participate in a crackdown on aggressive driving.
NEWS
April 24, 2006
Pakistan is striving to stop terrorists The suggestion in the article "U.S. military data for sale in Bagram" (April 13) that there are contacts between Pakistan's military and the militants in Afghanistan is totally incorrect. Indeed, it is as a result of the wholehearted efforts of Pakistan's intelligence and law enforcement agencies that hundreds of al-Qaida activists have been apprehended and deported from Pakistan, with many of them killed. The anti-terrorism campaign has met with considerable success inside Pakistan, and we have arrested some of al-Qaida's top leaders.
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April 9, 2006
A team of assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc. will visit the Howard County Police Department this month to examine its policies, procedures, management, operations and support services. Members of the community are invited to offer comments at a public information session to be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Ellicott Room of the George Howard Building, 3430 Court House Drive, Ellicott City. The assessment team is made up of members of law enforcement agencies in other states.
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By DOUGLAS BIRCH | January 13, 2006
The National Security Agency used law enforcement agencies, including the Baltimore Police Department, to track members of a city anti-war group as they prepared for protests outside the sprawling Fort Meade facility, internal NSA documents show. The target of the clandestine surveillance was the Baltimore Pledge of Resistance, a group loosely affiliated with the local chapter of the American Friends Service Committee, whose members include many veteran city peace activists with a history of nonviolent civil disobedience.
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By GUS G. SENTEMENTES | October 13, 2005
The city Police Department's aggressive strategies led to a record number of arrests in August, surpassing the previous record set in July, according to figures released yesterday by the city state's attorney's office. Prosecutors reviewed 8,964 arrests in August, nearly 1,300 more than in the preceding month, and declined to prosecute 2,961 cases, about 33 percent, the figures showed. Arrests - most of them made by city police and some by other law enforcement agencies - decreased last month.
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By Mary Gail Hare | February 11, 2005
The Carroll County Sheriff's Department asked the county commissioners yesterday to fund its effort to become a nationally accredited law enforcement agency within a year. The department won recognition 15 months ago from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, the first step in the process that traditionally leads to stronger crime prevention and control as well as improvements in management practices, confidence among residents and interagency cooperation, according to the commission.
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By Mary Gail Hare | February 11, 2005
The Carroll County Sheriff's Department asked the county commissioners yesterday to fund its effort to become a nationally accredited law enforcement agency within a year. The department won recognition 15 months ago from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, the first step in the process that traditionally leads to stronger crime prevention and control as well as improvements in management practices, confidence among residents and interagency cooperation, according to the commission.