The task force chairman, Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, praised the department's response.
He appeared with the task force chairman, former Gov. Thomas H. Kean, in a news conference in Trenton on the recommendations.
DENNIS J. DOLAN Washington, July 12, 2002 The writer is first vice president and security task force chairman, Air Line Pilots Association International.
"Everybody can't have everything they want," Mr. McWater, the community board task force chairman, said, "but I think we're pretty close to an equilibrium".
Mr. Steinberg, the task force chairman, put it another way: "All these groups have to come to the table and put their egos away".
'Unfortunately, health authorities are unwilling to realise that obesity is overtaking cigarette smoking as the most important avoidable threat to health,' said task force chairman Professor John Garrow.
But Dr. Alfred Berg of the University of Washington, who was the task force chairman at the time, said "there was absolutely zero political influence on what the task force did".
"What I've done is to try to unblock an impasse — to find a sensible midpoint where everyone agrees," said Alan Knight, the task force chairman and an expert in sustainability.
Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, who was the task force chairman, said there was a "strong consensus" in the group that Secure Communities should focus on deporting serious and violent felons.
"At long last, DSM 5 is correcting itself and has rejected its worst proposals," said Dr. Allen Frances, a former task force chairman and professor emeritus at Duke University who has been one of the most prominent critics.
