The Home Office had asked local churches to provide a pool of criminal-records-cleared adults who could sit with the Calais children as they went through their interviews at Lunar House.
Rather, they argued, the disproportionate stopping and frisking of blacks and Hispanics could be attributed to the disproportionate number of black and Hispanic people in the pool of criminals and potential criminals.
The problem is not that individual criminals are committing more crime, Mr. Beck said, but that the pool of potential criminals has grown.
Along with the A.C.L.U., Mr. Smith presented findings last week at Logan Airport in Boston, showing that the devices were largely ineffective in identifying terrorists -- though they might be helpful in making identifications from a smaller pool of local criminals as they try to flee by boarding planes.
Dennis J. Oury, the lawyer for the owner of the nightclub, the Metro Lounge, which is next to the pool room, called the notion of criminal negligence "absurd" and said the incident was "an unfortunate accident".
While there are many ways to improve it, one priority item should be to maintain, enhance, and expand the pool of investors in international criminal justice.
There also are many relatively short-term groups drawn together for specific projects, such as fraud and armed robbery, from a pool of long-term professional criminals.
(The sample pool is again young, healthy, and free of criminal records and psychological problems).
Because Bob Ricker told the truth to the American people, we now understand the close connection between the gun industry and the vast pool of illegal guns available to criminals.
Imagine a pool of prospective jurors for a possible criminal trial.
A partner at Schulman, Treem, Kaminkow, Gilden & Ravenell, he was selected from a pool of 100 lawyers who do federal criminal defense work by contract in Baltimore.
