"We have launched an investigation into where this occurred, and we are looking at patrol procedures and supervision," he said.
The lawsuit brought by Bowie students and staff successfully made a case against racial profiling that has had a major impact on Border Patrol procedures throughout the Southwest.
Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said the judge's decision was "not a setback" because it was consistent with new housing vertical patrol, procedures and training curriculum put in place this year.
The Audit Commission, in a review of police patrol procedure, upholds his objections: "The public and politicians need to understand that foot patrol [the backbone of zero tolerance] is not a panacea for all policing problems".Even in those areas where a crackdown on petty crime might improve matters, it depends, in the sceptics' view, on non-confrontational tactics.
In fact, another major union official, Ed Mullins of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, suggested after the Gurley verdict that the vertical patrol procedure, as a whole, needs to be overhauled.
But the mayor's words reflect, as State Senator Eric Adams, the civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel and two others wrote in a recent letter to the commissioner, a misunderstanding of long-established patrol guide procedures.
According to Haberfeld, each of the 18,000 police departments in the US engages with the public according to its own standard operating procedures and patrol guides.
Mr. Hutchinson said he hoped the aerial drug patrols would resume with new procedures "to avoid this type of catastrophe".
In the wake of last year's events nine people were charged, and chester police have heightened their normal security procedures by instigating patrols to make sure no unsavoury graffiti can be daubed near the stadium after inflammatory messages were found in recent seasons.
The officers received training in police procedures but are not sworn patrol officers and do not carry weapons.
