Detailed description of police headquarters: cells, Property Room, studio and general procedure in various departments.
The Department of Justice has investigated more than fifteen police departments in the past four years, and its description of police practices in Albuquerque is arguably the most disparaging.
But critics of the police say his description of police training and practice at the time confirms what state officials have only lately admitted -- that racial profiling was widespread.
The contents are not known, though one official described them as technical descriptions of police investigations in Chongqing.
Even so, descriptions of police conduct in this case are disturbingly consistent with those cited by civil rights attorneys in Floyd v. City of New York, a federal class-action suit that challenges the legality of the Police Department's stop-and-frisk program.
Mr. Campos faults Dr. Goffman's book for its implausibility--faulty time lines, narrative incongruities, and putatively embellished eye-witness descriptions of police behavior.
COLIN HARRISON Nottingham, England, Sept. 18, 2013 To the Editor: As a psychiatrist recently retired after 45 years at Bellevue Hospital, I was intrigued by your article's description of the police visit to Aaron Alexis, the gunman, after he complained of a "microwave machine" causing vibrations in his walls that kept him awake, and of hearing voices.
There's the famous Jerilderie letter, from the State Library of Victoria collection, renowned for its wildly poetic language and a description of the police as "a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed, big bellied, magpie legged, narrow hipped, splay-footed sons of Irish bailiffs or English landlords".
By John McClair and Harold Ross The New Yorker, September 4, 1937 P. 9 The Selznick movie company is making a movie of N. Y. life to be called "Is Nothing Sacred?" Mr. Selznick sent a telegram to Jock Whitney asking for an accurate description of a police prowl car which is to appear in the movie.
The description police have issued of the man getting on the bus has striking similarities with the description of someone else police want to speak to, especially as he appears to be left-handed.
