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The Border Within
An investigation by the Rocky Mountain News found that "many criminal immigrants who are supposed to be deported are not removed from the country because of a lack of manpower and detention space and because of a lack of communication among federal, state and local officials." The newspaper also reported that "many of these criminals had gone on to commit worse crimes in Colorado, including murder and sexual assault." In addition, "half the people deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement each year in Colorado and nationally have no criminal record."
Tags: Immigration; deportation; criminals; repeat offenders
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Sex Offenders: Steps Away
WPLG reports on lax enforcement of Florida's sex offender law. No convicted sex offender is supposed to live within 1,000 feet of a day care centers, but the investigation discovered that 536 such people were doing exactly that, including some in apartments overlooking day care centers. Law enforcement asserted it "lacked the resources and manpower to enforce the law." The state legislature is planning to take a hard look at what must be done to improve the situation. As part of the investigation, reporter Julie Summers compiled information including maps of the centers in relation to the offenders, and a list of Web sites people can use for more information.
Tags: Sex offenders; day care centers; children; living; restraining order; law enforcement; Florida; sexual predators; child molesters
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Mortal Wounds
"These stories examined the disproportionate number of LAPD homicide detectives across the city. We found that the safest places got the most detective manpower, that is, areas with fewer homicides were getting more detectives per case."
Tags: homicide; police; detectives; caseloads
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DUI Arrests Plunge: Police chief cites manpower shortage, compliance as main reasons for decline
Drinking has become more and more prevalent in Georgia, yet arrests for driving under the influence have declined. Houston examines this issue and finds that police departments are understaffed and do not have the resources to do an effective job of getting drunk drivers off the road.
Tags: drunk driving; accidents; alcohol
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DUI Arrests Plunge
"Columbus, Ga. was a city in which drunken driving was a crime aggressively pursued in the past, including the use of task force operations and regular checkpoints to take DUI offenders off the roadways. But from 1997-2002, Columbus DUI arrests dropped more than 50 percent. By 2002, more than a third of all DUI arrests were the result of accidents, not enforcement measures." Reporter Jim Houston of the Ledger-Inquirer discovered this disturbing trend by using computer-assisted reporting to analyze such records as the state and superior court records of DUI offenses over five years and records of liquor licenses issued over the same period. Further investigation revealed that a double-digit manpower shortage of police officers, coupled with a lack of compliance, were partly to blame. A brief follow-up story published on June 21, 2003 is included as well, noting the effect of the original story on local law enforcement agencies - including the city police and county sheriff's department's decision to join forces on the DUI issue.
Tags: drunk driving; drunk; drinking; DUI; DWI; drunken driving; arrest; arrests; alcohol; checkpoints; check points; liquor; beer; wine; CAR; court records; open records request; police; offense
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Welfare that Works: Lessons from Three Experiments that Fight Dependency and Poverty by Rewarding Work
The American Prospect magazine examines three welfare experiments by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, which tested policies that would reward getting a job and minimize dependency.
Tags: Welfare; experiments; Manpower Demonstration Research Center; incentives; disincentives; dependency; money; poverty; policy; United States; U.S. government; race; economics; income; jobs
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The Christal Jones Story
The Free Press discovers that teenage girls from Vermont have been "hooked on heroin and whisked away to New York" where they have been forced into prostitution. Many of the young women have been in state custody, but the state lacks "the money, manpower or wherewithal to keep track of its incorrigible charges," the investigative series reveals. Some of the stories shed light on the "heroin epidemic that consumed many young Vermonters," and other articles focus on the deviant activity of a Burlington businessman who has been taking tens of thousands of pornographic pictures, some of underage girls. The coverage starts with a story about the death of 16-year-old Christal Jones, a ward of the state who died in a seedy New York apartment, and whose fate has been kept from the public by the state officials.
Tags: drugs; drug addicts; heroin; prostitution; abuse; pornography; juvenile justice; youth; FOI requests; crime; rape
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Workers for rent
The story looks at the booming staff-leasing industry that is "outsourcing liability for American companies - and leaving workers in the lurch." Leased employees can be hired and fired at will, and often get unfair benefits and pensions, the report finds. Legal ambiguities, including uncertainty about who the actual employer is, permit companies to additionally erode the rights of the employees. The statistics quoted in the story show that today more than 1,700 firms lease 2 million to 3 million workers.
Tags: National association of Professional Employer Organization; OSHA; workers' compensation; unions; retirement; Kelly; Manpower; Department of Labor; Bureau of Labor Statistics; National Association of Temporary Staffing Services
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Explosive Issue: Gas-Pipeline Tragedies Have Energy Industry, Regulators Under Fire
"The U.S. agency that inspects pipelines, federal officials say, lacks trained manpower, reliable data on accidents and the will to crack down on unsafe practices before deadly blasts occur. The pipeline industry has resisted calls from the National Transportation Safety Board and others for mandatory periodic inspections of pipelines and national employee-training standards. Meanwhile, the nation's pipelines continue to age, many of them now more than 50 years old and too narrow to accommodate the probes sent through pipes to inspect them internally for defects."
Tags: NTSB; natural gas; explosions; sonar; corrosion; Malaga; OPS; Office of Pipeline Safety; self-regulating; retrofit; oil; increased civil penalties; accident-reporting regulations; "high consequence areas"; operating pressure
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City Roads
A KITV-TV investigation of road maintenance cutbacks by the city of Honolulu reveals that the "money and manpower were diverted to favored projects by the mayor."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Honolulu; road; maintenance; city government; mayor; projects; money; tax dollars