DID YOU NOTICE THE COPS STANDING BEHIND BILL CLINTON AS THE PRESIdent unveiled his crime-fighting package last week? Almost all were from the neighborhood, from Washington and its surrounding suburbs. That's no big deal, of course; any blue will do for a law-and-order photo-op. But the absence of officers from all over the U.S. (the norm for decades whenever uniforms have gathered to support a President's latest war on crime) tells a tale. Clinton's proposals, a grab bag of familiar notions, were hastily introduced. That doesn't mean they're bad or ill conceived -- the Administration worked on them for months --...
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