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Not So Bungled After All
Mark Hosenball 9/26/2009 12:00:00 AM
Just hours after news broke last week that federal and local officials had busted up an alleged terror plot to bomb New York subways and buses, the FBI and New York Police Department started fighting about who should get the credit and who should take the blame. Some federal officials complained to reporters—anonymously, of course—that NYPD detectives had blown the case too early when they talked to an imam in Queens, who then tipped off one of the alleged plotters. FBI officials said they had to move in before they could round up everyone involved or find out where the suspects might have hidden a stash of bombmaking supplies.
Inside the Zazi Takedown
Christopher Dickey 9/26/2009 12:00:00 AM
"The ticking bomb" is a cliché in movies about cops and spies and terrorists, but sometimes in real life, with real terrorists, it's the real deal. And that's what the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York City Police Department saw themselves up against in the case of Najibullah Zazi, the 24-year-old Afghan immigrant indicted Thursday for “conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.” Did the cops make mistakes? Some. Did Zazi find out the Feds were on to him sooner than they wanted him to know? Yes. Did the bomb go off? No. Or not yet, anyway.
Dying in Vein
9/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
Can a vein save a convicted killer? It the case of Romell Broom—it might. Broom was sentenced to death for raping and murdering 14-year-old Tryna Middleton on Sept. 21, 1984. Broom isn't supposed to be alive to witness the 25th anniversary of Middleton's death—but he is. Last Tuesday, the execution team at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility spent several hours trying unsuccessfully to find a viable vein for a lethal injection. Now, Ohio is faced with the difficult task of determining whether it can try to execute Broom a second time, after it botched the first attempt.
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Playing Politics With Crime
Jay Mathews
Most Americans worry about crime, but in California the issue carries unusual emotional weight. In such a large state, political campaigns have to rely heavily on television ads-and crime is an issue that easily translates into stark 30-second images of women hearing footsteps in the dark, or murdered children going unavenged. Some commentators say that Simi Valley, with its large population of police officers, was an aberration-one of the few places in the country where a jury might be sympathetic to King's assailants. But voting records show that the area differs little from other California suburbs, with residents who see police as a bulwark against urban chaos and crime.
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Long Arm of the Law
Dirk Johnson
On Nov. 2, 1983, as Darrell Cannon recalls it, he was forced to lie down in the back of the detective's car. "That's when they pulled my pants and shorts down," he said, and applied the electric cattle prod to his testicles.