Where was the swimming pool?" The officer kept referring to geographical data that she had obtained from the C.I.A., but Laurent's information was more recent, and he told her so.
They also called upon the department to diversify the pool of officers doing undercover work, saying that the vast majority of officers who conduct dangerous buy-and-bust operations are black or Latino.
The criminal case against the officers was moved to a largely white community outside of Los Angeles in search of an unbiased jury pool; the officers were acquitted, unleashing a shocked reaction that quickly turned violent.
A moratorium on hiring -- intended to pare down the bloated civil service -- meant that a shrinking pool of officers found themselves overloaded with more and more cases.
It said: "This pool of officers, less than 10% of the total number we employ, receive the same training as their colleagues on full-time contracts and their skills are kept up to date through regular work and training.
Department officials said that when they began placing officers at bridges, tunnels and other important security posts around the city -- assignments that typically require greater firepower than those given to most of the rank and file -- they were forced to choose from a relatively small pool of officers trained in the use of heavy-duty weapons.
When we think of jobs, we see factories, secretarial pools, police officers, lawyers.
Mr. Halevy lands face down on a couch near the pool table, where Officer Vega delivers at least eight blows in quick succession.
Selected by the F.B.I. from a pool of noncommissioned officers in 1959 as a "dangle" to lure Soviet intelligence officers to recruit him as a spy, Mr. Cassidy worked as an F.B.I. double agent against the Soviet Union for more than 20 years.
But with a large and geographically diverse pool of federal officers to work in cockpits, that problem will be solved, he said.
