Yet Catherine M. Ashton, Europe's foreign policy chief, opposes writing a new one, fearing huge disagreements.
The Democratic candidate, Ken Zisa, who is a state legislator and the Hackensack police chief, opposes more detainees.
At the same time, he backed away from naming a new national police chief opposed by a belligerent Legislature, declaring that his candidate would be only an acting chief.
A16 Bar Chief Opposes Executions The president-elect of the American Bar Association urged the nation's lawyers to support a moratorium on capital punishment, saying there is widespread unfairness and "gross injustice" in the way the death penalty is applied.
The Fifa chief opposed goal-line technology for years and appeared to have ended the debate on its future in March 2010.
While several police chiefs oppose the law, groups representing rank-and-file officers support it and play down the concerns about racial profiling.
The state sheriff's association was neutral at the time, but several prominent sheriffs and police chiefs opposed it.
The Florida Sheriff's Association took no stand on the law in 2005 or last year, but several big-city sheriffs and police chiefs opposed it at the time of passage, according to news reports then.
The legislation that the service chiefs oppose -- Congresswoman Jackie Speier and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's Military Justice Improvement Act that seeks to reform prosecutions by removing them from commanders heretofore unwilling or unable to pursue them -- is just what the doctor ordered.
Chief Opposes Clemency Louis J. Freeh is actively opposing any reconsideration by President Clinton of the life sentence given Leonard Peltier, a 56-year-old American Indian, for the killings of two F.B.I. agents in 1975.
