From: drose@AZStarNet.com
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 08:33:43 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Internet solution for law enforcement
Message-ID: <199606082052.NAA28043@web.azstarnet.com>
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"Alan Horowitz" alanh@infi.net wrote:

>It appears that someone has figured out that medium-sized jurisdictions 
>don't want to be left out of the trendiness. And has put together a 
>product that can be peddled at the trade shows where Police Chiefs go.
>
>I recall reading that there's something like 25,000 different police 
>departments in America. It's a sizeable market. And a very politically 
>correct one, right now.
>
>Do these managers _need_ this stuff? Well, did they _need_ all those 
>black-ninja hollywood flavored SWAT uniforms?
>
>Now, if they could just get a few more PC-of-the-month phraseologies into 
>the title of their product, they'd sell twice as many.  Start with 
>"anti-deadbeat-dad software", maybe. "Pro Diversity". "Environmentally 
>Friendly Software".
>
>Is America great, or what?

You bet.  PC stuff is essential.  Here in Tucson, the cops came up with a
novel, simple, cheap, and efficacious method to determine cocaine HCl usage:
Put a strip of Scotch (TM) tape across the nostrils of a
suspectee/apprehendee and see if there's any toot on it.

Local judges disallowed this procedure because, in the absence of a
substantial presence of African-Americans in the "community" (they comprise
<2% of local population), almost all of those arrested were
Hispanic-surnamed Latinos.