Attorney General John Ashcroft said tonight that the F.B.I. had established crime scene inquiries in New York, Washington, Boston, Newark and the site of the crash outside of Pittsburgh.
But his comparative inattention to genocide as a newly established crime renders his work susceptible to the criticism that it is "Hamlet" without Hamlet.
These pieces of evidence are building blocks, not smoking guns, in the sense that they tell part of a story but don't independently establish crimes.
"It was a testimony of extremely good quality," he said, "and very important for establishing crimes as well as Milosevic's part in the horrors that were visited upon Croatia and Bosnia".
"That it is going to acquire an International Trial Court to impose sanctions on whoever establishes crimes against universal conscience as a real method of government or combat, and at the same time refuse to deal with the troubles of one's own backyard".
Legislators in both New York and New Mexico have so far proposed legislation that establish crimes against homeless people as hate crimes.
The national academy, its scientific crime laboratory (created in 1932), and the Uniform Crime Reports compiled by the bureau were critical factors in establishing crime fighting as the primary mission of police forces in the United States.
Yet while D.C. police say that ShotSpotter is "a valuable tool," helping to establish crime trends, the department told The Post that it didn't track arrests made as a result of ShotSpotter alerts.
However, it has only established war crimes tribunals with regard to the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia, in Central Africa and in Darfur.
