A bullet hit the officer, Rodney Lewis, 40, near his left armpit just above his bullet-resistant vest, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.
Officer Maass, who joined the department in January 2006, was shot in the back, below his bullet-resistant vest, the police said.
In the negative sense, "old-school" connotes roughness, racial insensitivity, and the convoluted family relationships that make the police force resistant to reform.
Lester Shubin, a government scientist who saw the potential of using Kevlar to strengthen bullet-resistant vests for the police, an advance that has saved the lives of more than 3,000 officers, died Nov. 20 at his home in Fairfax, Va.
Occasionally bystanders gathered to watch silently as the police pummeled a resistant protester.
They have been secretly tested for 2 months and are now ready for delivery: bullet-resistant bras for 3,000 German police women who are in frontline duty.
"Police officers are very resistant to change, just as the community sometimes is very resistant to change".
Unlike those of some rifles, its bullets probably would not penetrate a police officer's bullet-resistant vest, a law enforcement official said.
Its sides and roof were sturdily braced with plywood and heavy lumber, and a Honda generator was found in a nearby pit, connected by a covered cable to what police described as "moisture-resistant lighting" in the tunnel.
While consent decrees are no panacea, civil rights advocates and experts generally agree they represent an important tool for reform and accountability by providing formal oversight over police departments that have proven resistant to change.
