1984执法新闻总结
1984执法新闻总结
(D.-N.Y.) sent out a strong plea in from a General Motors dealer- gives lip service to the latter but board shakeup LEN TOOK A LOOK AT
the pages of LEN
for a legislative
ship. insists on the former.’’ The computer crime this month, and
report, entitled “The Future of
MOVING ALONG ON THE found that it is a matter of special
ban on the importation of armor- legislative front, the Senate ap-
Policing,” was aimed at big city concern to the law enforcement
piercing bullets. Biaggi, who in- proved two more anti-crime bills,
troduced to Congress in 1982 mayors, and recommended that community. But, according to
one that would reinstate the
legislation to do just that, had February: Smith mayors be better educated about
Federal death penalty for ter-
police investigators, a cop doesn't
grown impatient in the face of
police functions and police chiefs need much training to investigate
rorists, spies and people who at-
strong National Rifle Association resigns, Meese faces be better trained to help mayors computer “Our job,” said
theft.
tack the President, and another
lobbying against the plan. It was and city councils set challenging Det. Bob Nieto of the Los Angeles
that would permit Federal pro-
stalled in Congress for more than
the fire; serial-killer but reasonable goals for their Police Department, “is to
secution of career criminals,
two years. The armor-piercing police departments. chronologically put the informa-
parley; crime bills •
armed robbers and burglars.
ammunition issue would become tion into a sequence of events."
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Obtaining that information can
a political football that bounced
get in gear THE FIRST ROUND OF AFTER FIVE YEARS OF
be difficult, however: according to
around Congress for the re- a series of battles between what litigation, a Los Angeles Superior
Nieto, the majority of computer-
mainder of the year. ATTORNEY GENERAL Attorney General William French Court judge approved a
• William French Smith announced related crimes go unreported.
Smith called “the forces of law $ 1.8-million out-of-court settle-
THE YEAR BEGAN WITH A his resignation from office, and and the forces of lawlessness” ment of a lawsuit charging that •
victory for supporters of affir- President Reagan promptly was fought in the Senate, with a the Los Angeles Police Depart- THE U.S. TREASURY
mative action in the Detroit named Presidential Counselor package of anti-crime bills being ment had illegally spied on law- Department s fiscal 1985 budget
Police Department, when the U.S. Edwin Meese III as his choice for approved and sent on to the abiding citizens. The city will request of $602.4 million was less
Supreme Court refused, without a successor, to the acclaim of House. The legislation, which was have to pay $900,000 to the 144 than its 1984 request, and
comment or dissent, to overturn many in the law enforcement com- endorsed by the Reagan Ad- plaintiffs in the suit, and represented a cut of $23 million
an affirmative action plan that re- munity. The early months of the ministration, overhauled the $900,000 to their attorneys, all Continued on Page 4
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Brown Smith Meese Harms Huwkins
Year in review:
Crime drops;
Murphy, Breier
both call it
a career
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FBI National Academy. To say that Brooks is a busy man seems like a colossal about. " Brooks said.
understatement.
most satisfying thing will be next year when VI-CAP goes operational. "After that, I began
talking to people around
The story of how Brooks first conceived of VI-CAP is the sort of story of which the country, at the FBI
law enforcement legends are made. Brooks likes to tell it this way: and the National In-
stitute of Justice, and I
“We d have to go back about 26 years, to when I was working homicide in the was asked to write up a
Los Angeles Police Department. I was working on a case where I had a gut feeling proposal about this thing
that the killer was someone who was probably passing through Los Angeles or had that I was then calling
done this before. My problem was, where had the killer come from and where was VI-CAP, the acronym for
he now? Violent Criminal Ap-
prehension Program. I
"In my search to find out, 1 used to go down to the main library in downtown started working with Bob
Los Angeles in my spare time, and read the newspapers from across the country to Heck at the NIJ and we
see if I could see a connection, a killer who fit the description I had come up with. put together the VI-CAP
After 14 months, 1 saw a newspaper clipping of a killer who fit the M.O. I was look- Advisory Board. It came
”
ing for, and I cleared the case. together from there.
The next
offenders
unsolved violent crimes. The program grew
before
violent
it all
its
"VI-CAP
time.
together."
To learn more about one limb of the beast —
VI-CAP — LEN went to the source: Pierce
Brooks, the man who had the foresight to envi-
sion a serial killer tracking system 20 years
ex]
the U.S. — “but I knew that would never work," had developed a computer program called the tional next year we will accept reports of any un- to. As the repor
Pierce Brooks said. "VI-CAP is a national pro- Arson Information Management System, or solved murder that is committed in this country, pattern anatysi:
gram, and when we looked at what the FBI was AIMS. and someday, in the free world. Then we’ll col- the country, the
doing with its criminal profiling and research, it AIMS uses advanced computer technology to late that information, analyze it, and then By all accoun
became clear that Quantico was the logical place analyze data about fires in order to predict disseminate it to any police agency where we see in, since investi
”
for it to be. where the next arson is most likely to occur, and that there’s a similar pattern existing.” are eager to nee
When VI-CAP settled in at the FBI Academy to construct a profile of the arsonist. It is the Brooks said VI-CAP will accept reports of said he has beer
in Quantico, Va., it became the final piece in AIMS program upon which the VI-CAP software solved homicides only when the criminal is a by police officer
what Roger Depue, chief of the FBI’s is based. known serial killer. As an example, he cited a Academy at Qu
Behavioral Sciences Unit, called "a puzzle that "When weheard about Pierce Brooks’ idea of case in California where a California Highway about VI-CAP.
finally fit together.” The name of that puzzle, a Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, we Patrol officer pulled over a driver for operating great optimism
which is composed of several innovative systems were naturally very interested,” said Depue. his vehicle inan erratic fashion. VI-CAP will de!
designed to make the tasks of American "We’re always looking for new ways to tackle "The thought the driver was drunk, but
officer "One investig
criminal investigators easier, is the National old problems, and we were quite excited about it turned out he wasn't drunk at all,” Brooks on the Ted Bun
Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. the idea of bringing all these good ideas together said. "Actually he was in ecstasy because he had who is now wor
The National Center (it has no convenient under one roof. just strangled his 40th or 50th victim, and was Force in Seattle
acronym) is overseen by Special Agent Depue "We all felt that it was kind of like the old playing with the body while he was driving. he is positive tl
and was funded by a $ 1.7-million transfer of story of the blind men feeling the elephant, and "So that person, once arrested, would be tional at that ti
funds from the National Institute of Justice and allreporting something different about what added to VI-CAP, because we would then have a killed some of t
the Office of Justice Assistance, Research and they’re feeling. It was only when they put complete M.O. and could probably help a lot of to stop all nurc
Statistics. It has its roots in the pioneering work together what they had that they could con- investigators around the country. We’d call a pression, we wc
of theFBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit, which 12 struct what the beast looked That’s what
like. police agency and say, ‘Hey, remember that "If we had ha
years ago began to construct psychological pro- we're doing here at the National Center — we're murder you had three years ago, and that M.O. in Utah andsta
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ntilabout 20 years ago, the isolated cases of multiple murders that
and creator of the VI-CAP system turned up every so often were duly shuddered at and then dis-
missed by law enforcement and citizens alike as disconnected and
freakish. Not so any more. Serial murder may be the catch-crime
of the 1980’s, as rape was the catch-crime of the 1970's. The crime
h id not The popular media have taken to referring to VI-CAP as “the brainchild of Pierce and its perpetrators are at the center of a whirlwind of activity. The Justice
it s real- Brooks." Brooks himself, while obviously proud of his involvement in the project, insists Department has just spent $1.7 million to bring VI-CAP on line at the FBI
that it would have come to pass with or without him. Academy, and police officers across the country are attending training
seminars on how to identify the activity of a serial murderer. Meanwhile,
journalists and writers, aware of the sensational nature of serial killings, are
in send- “It would have happened anyway,” he said, adding with a chuckle: “I don't like to
constantly underlining for the public the terrifying image of the murderer
,
a fter compare myself to such a person as this one, but if Thomas Edison hadn't discovered
5 who kills strangers in a random, motiveless pattern of sadistic violence.
a olice electricity, we wouldn't be watching television by candlelight. Someone else would have
Ids en. picked it up and done it. I’m quite sure the same holds true for VI-CAP." That more attention is being paid to these murders than ever before seems
fairly obvious. But is this because there are more of them out there, posing a
n i t Brooks’s colleague Roger Depue, chief of the FBI Academy's Behavioral Science Unit, greater threat than ever before, or is it the product of increased awareness
offered a second opinion on this question. and better communication among law enforcement authorities, resulting in a
“Pierce Brooks is a higher frequency of closure — and publicity — on cases that would previously
humble man," he said.
have been shelved as unsolved?
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Pierce Brooks is inclined to say that there are more serial murderers now
“He’s probably right that
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VI-CAP was inevitable, than there have ever been before, and he places part of the blame on the in-
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but the question is, creased mobility and dispersion of American society. “We are becoming more
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g without Pierce, when of a society of strangers,” he said, and the stresses that result may con-
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* i 1 ij m . - 1 would it have been tribute to the growth of serial murderers.
discovered? It might Dr. John Liebert, a psychiatrist at the University of Washington in Seat-
have been years from tle, told a reporter in a recent interview that he believes the phenomenon is
now — and how many growing, and that it may have something to do with the influence of televi-
the Quantico dormitories vestigating hundreds of tips and leads that so far have not brought them
to become VI-CAP's pro- discernibly closer to determining the identity and whereabouts of the killer.
gram manager. Though “The Green River situation is a classic case," Brooks said. “The last body
not a computer wizard by they found they tracked to a murder that was committed a year ago, in
any means, he knows December 1983. So where is the murderer of these women now? Is he dead?
what he wants the com- Is he in jail? If he’s free and somewhere else, what is he doing?"
puter to do, and has been Brooks believes that once VI-CAP is operational, it will be able to detect
overseeing the develop- the movements of serial killers across the country, to spot patterns in ap-
ment of the VI-CAP pro- parently unrelated, random and motiveless murders. In addition to this trac-
gramming. ing of the physical movements of serial killers with VI-CAP, the FBI's Na-
tional Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime is also taking a different tack.
Continued on Page 10 The National Center’s research and development unit is conducting a series
of interviews with convicted serial killers to try to learn more about what
motivates their behavior — what makes them tick.
A amount is already known about the psychology of serial killers.
certain
Ann Rule, a member of the VI-CAP Advisory Task Force who was closely in-
( VI-CAP program volved with the investigation leading to the arrest of serial killer Ted Bundy,
says such killers are usually violent towards women, which may stem from
abuse or neglect suffered in childhood at the hands of their mothers. “When
been doing in Seattle, we would have known im- they grow up and become men, they act out their rage towards women" by
lav because you sent in the VI-CAP forms?
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mediately that it was the same person. We systematically killing victims, who often have similar physical
I, tl guy out in California that they
ere’s a
characteristics, she said.
an ested and he fits the desciption. You call would have put the Utah authorities in touch
with the Washington authorities, and it would Most serial killers are very intelligent, Rule said. “The dumb ones are
gU 3 s in California and you’ll probably clear
That’s the way VI-CAP is going to have been very easy to identify him. A lot of caught early on, they can't run up a string of 35 murders.” And many of
cas
those young women would not have had to die." them, she said, "have tremendous egos. When they’re caught they like to
k.”
Though the word is more or less out on brag about what they’ve done.” It is this quality that the FBI has found
I-C> iP isexpected to be operational by June,
VI-CAP’s imminent appearance on the criminal very useful in conducting its research.
at’s the day we get our first report,” Brooks
justice scene, Depue said the National Center
Under the direction of Dr. Ann Burgess, a psychiatric nurse associated
.
"1 ;ut then we’ll have nothing to compare it
plans to launch a training program in March of with the University of Pennsylvania, members of the National Center
Vs tie reports come in, we’ll be able to start
1
DAI will deliver some impressive results. story of you have to crawl before you can walk.” crime?’ Now that question has been around for 200 years, and investigators
have said in specific instances, yes, but they have never been able to explain
Dne investigator," Brooks said, “who worked Brooks said. “First we have to get the system
it, and they have never gathered any empirical proof. We are attempting to
he ed Bundy case back in the 1970’s and going,work out the bugs, and then look toward
answer that question, and others. How does the killer select the victim, how
iis ow working on the Green River Task
i expanding.”
On a less ambitious scale, Depue said he would does he maintain control of the victim, how does he choose his weapon, and
ce ii Seattle, has told me several times that
like to transfer the VI-CAP software to the so on. We’re interested in learning more about the techniques the criminal
s po ritive that if VI-CAP had been opera-
all
state law enforcement agencies in the U.S. — to uses to beat the system.”
al a that time Ted Bundy might still have
Because of the egotistical quality mentioned by Rule, the serial murderers
;d s< me of those girls VI-CAP is not going — “give the software technology to each state for
interviewed by the FBI team were generally cooperative, Depue said.
top murders — but, to use a Western ex-
ill
their own individual purposes. That’s down the
we would have cut him off at the pass, road a bit," he said, “but 14 states have already “We interviewed what you could call the 'very best’ criminals, the most
isioi
prolific criminals,” he said. "And surprisingly, they were extremely
.
[f w> had had VI-CAP when Bundy appeared indicated to us that they would be interested,
cooperative. I say surprisingly because we have always been perceived by
ftah and started doing the same things he’d and we haven't advertised this idea at all.”
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related, the New York City Police ducted in northeastern Ohio by round-
with a shotgun. Police Commis- ed up were back on the
Department came under fire from FBI agents and local police. streets
sioner Benjamin Ward ordered within days after their
minority groups over the fact that a re-arrest.
Richard Williams, who was
revision of the rules for disarming
a disproportionate number of October: IACP puts emotionally disturbed persons,
sought in the 1981 shooting death
blacks and Hispanics failed a re- of Trooper Philip
and began looking into new alter- Lamonaco, was
cent test for sergeant. Although on a happy face; U.S., captured along with Raymond
the president of the department's
natives to the use of lethal force.
Luc Levasseur, who has been on December. Grim look
Guardians Association hesitated Italy go after mob; the FBI's 10 Most Wanted
to call the test discriminatory, he
list at drug trafficking;
since 1977. The other suspect
demanded either a new test or a crime program axed in
November More the Lamonaco slaying, Thomas
Darwick says so-long;
quota system to insure more Manning,
GOOD NEWS ABOUNDED is still at large.
minority promotions. agencies accredited;
for the International Association
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Detroit eyes problem
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of Chiefs of Police, as the group A HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE
AS CONGRESS GOT READY settled a year-old Federal probe of DWI checkpoints report charging that racism in the of rising violence
to adjourn before Election Day, alleged IACP misuseof grant
New York City Police Depart-
the House of Representatives ap- money. Under the terms of the get new ally; NJ ment "appears to be a major fac- DURING THREE DAYS OF
proved the Reagan Administra- tor in alleged police hearings, the President's Com-
settlement, IACP agreed to repay misconduct
tion’s comprehensive crime con- cop-killer caught specifically and in police-
mission on Organized Crime got a
the $170,000 that was said to
trolpackage. The bill passed by a community relations generally”
gloomy picture of cocaine traf-
have been misused, plus a fine of ANOTHER FOUR POLICE
vote of 243-to-166, after having got a predictably lukewarm ficking and abuse in the United
the same amount. Shortly agencies, ranging in size from 57
been approved by the Senate response from city and police of- States, with testimony from
thereafter, police chiefs migrated to 1,600 full-time personnel, were
earlier in the year ficials. The 74-page report from
smugglers, money launderers,
by a vote of to Salt Lake City for IACP’s an- given the seal of approval by the
91-to-l. the House Judiciary Subcommit- doctors and law enforcement of-
nual meeting, at which the Commission on Accreditation for
tee on criminal justice was based ficials. Three former
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organization broke new ground smugglers
Law Enforcement Agencies. At a
AT THE SAME TIME, by electing the first black to its meeting held in Portland, Ore.,
on three days of emotionally- testifiedunder oath how they pro-
House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill on charged hearings held in 1983 to tected their profits by paying off
board of officers. Houston Police November 1, the commission ac-
determine the extent of police and public officials in
Jr. blocked consideration of the Chief Lee P. Brown rolled up an racially-
credited the Arlington County, foreign countries, particularly the
controversial billthat would have electoral landslide to win the motivated police misconduct.
Va., Police Department, the Bahamas. The commission also
banned the sale of armor-piercing sixth vice president’s post, Commissioner Benjamin Ward
set- Baltimore County, Md., Police heard a number of law enforce-
ammunition. O’Neill’s action ting him on the path toward reacted defensively, saying he
Department, the Elkhart County, ment officials speak in frustrated
forced the backers to start
bill's becoming president of the group would not allow his department to
Ind., Sheriff’s Department and tones of their efforts to control
from scratch when the 99th Con- in 1990.
be "smeared’’ because of the
the North Providence, R.I., Police
gress convenes in 1985. •
racist actions of a few officers.
trafficking. One State Depart-
Department. ment said there has been no
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evidence of a reduction
THE MARYLAND STATE in theUnited States and Italy an- DWI CHECKPOINTS GOT A COCAINE ERADICATION in the
Police scored a judicial victory program being run in Peru by the amount of cocaine coming into
nounced a joint campaign against a new ally when the National the country in the past five years.
when the state’s Court of Appeals organized crime in both countries.
U.S. State Department was
Transportation Safety Board •
ruled that sobriety checkpoints Attorney General William French suspended after gunmen terror-
issued a report recommending
set up to apprehend drunken Smith and Italian Minister of the that sobriety roadblocks and ad-
ized a jungle campsite, killing 19 AFTER 19 YEARS WITH
drivers do not violate constitu- Interior Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Peruvians employed by the the IACP, Norman Darwick has
ministrative license procedures
tional protections against illegal agreed to several measures United States. The victims work- decided it’s time to step down as
be used as deterrents to drunken
searches and seizures. The 6-to-l designed to increase international ed for the Upper Huallaga Valley the organization’s executive
driving.The NTSB report said Coca Reduction and Control
decision said the intrusion on in- cooperation, including a mutual director. Darwick resigned,
the checkpoints are believed to effec-
dividual liberties caused by the assistance pact that will allow law Organization, a $30-million effort December 31, to become ex-
tive
have "a high deterrent effect
roadblocks was "minimal" when to cut coca production along the ecutive vice president of a
enforcement agencies to bypass because they preclude drunk
weighed against the state’s in- normal diplomatic channels, and Huallaga River, where most of Florida-based foundation. No suc-
drivers from assuming they can
terest in detecting and deterring the illegal coca in Peru is grown. cessor was immediately named.
a new. streamlined extradition avoid police observation by simp-
drunken driving. The program was designed to
treaty. The agreements came on ly driving ‘cautiously.’ "
the heels of a massive round-up of destroy coca plants and replace
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A FEDERAL JUDGE suspected Mafiosi in Sicily. IN AN EFFORT TO FOIL them with legal, but less lucrative A RISING PROBLEM OF
upheld the Dallas Police Depart- crops such as soybeans and corn. violence on Detroit's streets and
would-be currency counterfeiters,
ment’s policy of requiring THE FEDERAL CRIME Peru’s president called the killers in its schools has prompted
the Treasury Department began
recruits to have completed at "narco- terrorists. Mayor Coleman
Insurance Program was axed by considering a variety of modifica- A. Young to an-
least 45 semester hours of college. the Reagan Administration as a nounce plans to assign up to a
tions to the almighty dollar.
The case, which grew out of an cost-cutting move, leaving THE COMBINED FEDERAL, thousand more officers to street
Sparked by concern over the
eight-year-old lawsuit filed by a state and local fugitive-roundup patrol duties this winter and to
thousands of homes and business steadily-improving capabilities of
black woman who was denied a in high crime areas without
effort known as FIST slammed begin recruiting and hiring more
in- commercial copying machines, a
job with the department, into the Northeast, capturing new
surance protection. A spokesman task force began looking into such officers in 1985. The city's
represented the first time a for the Federal Insurance Ad-
more than 3,300 fugitives who crime rate had been relatively in
possibilities as the use of
Federal court had addressed the ministration said the Administra-
had a combined criminal history check until 1983, when a series of
holographic images on currency.
issue of higher education as a hir- of 12,440 felonies. According to rapes of public school students
tion believed crime insurance to •
ing standard in law enforcement. the head of the U.S. Marshals Ser- rocked the city and the murder
be a state rather than a Federal ONE OF THE SUSPECTED vice, Stanley E. Morris, 53 per-
• rate began climbing once again.
problem.
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The 1984 term of the Supreme Writing the opinion of the prisoner.” case basis. (Warden v. Harris, No. to his guilt."
Court of the United States actual- Court was Justice Powell, who The “proportionality test" is an 82-1095, decision announced The Court went on to hold that
ly began in October of George cited Michigan v. Tyler, 436 U.S. attempt to ascertain whether the January 23, 1984.) "neither collateral estoppel nor
Orwell’s infamous year and, as 499 (1978) as the controlling case "penalty is. .unacceptable in a
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double jeopardy bars a civil,
Law Enforcement News went to law in this instance. In Tyler, the particular case because (it is)
February remedial forfeiture proceeding in-
press, the nine Justices have yet Supreme Court held that once disproportionate to the punish-
Forfeiture of Firearms itiated following an acquittal on
to hand down their first formal public officials are in a building to ment imposed on others con-
In a unanimous decision related criminal charges.”
criminal law opinion. need no warrant
fight a fire they victed of the same crime."
delivered by the Chief Justice, the (United States v. One Assortment
to remain for "a reasonable time Examining the California
Supreme Court ruled that a gun of 89 Firearms, No. 82-1047, deci-
to investigate the cause of the sentencing scheme utilized in this
owner's acquittal on criminal sion announced February 22,
Supreme blaze after it has been extin- case, the Supreme Court majori-
charges involving firearms does 1984.)
guished.” However, that decision ty, in a decision written by
Court also held that where "reasonable Justice White, determined that
not preclude a subsequent
forfeiture proceeding against Admissions to Probation Officer
Briefs expectations of privacy remain in the state's system was not offen-
those same firearms under 18 In a 6-to-3 decision, the
the fire-damaged property, addi- sive to the Eighth Amendment of Supreme Court announced that
U.S.C. Section 924(d).
Jonah Triebwasser tional investigations begun after the Constitution, The majority
The statute upon which the the Fifth and Fourteenth Amend-
the fire had been extinguished position explained that where
Court based its decision provides: ments do not prohibit the in-
Perhaps, as we look forward to and fire and police officials have there exists a state sentencing
"Any firearm or ammunition in- troduction into evidence of a pro-
the new year and wonder what left the scene generally must be system that allows for review as
volved in or used or intended tobe bationer's subsequent murder
new rules of criminal law await in made pursuant to a warrant or the of right of a capital offense convic-
used in, any violation of the provi- prosecution.
1985, we can back on the
reflect identification of some new no constitutional re-
tion, there is
sion of this chapter or any rule or In 1980, the defendant-
major decisions of the October exigency.” (Michigan v. Clifford, quirement that the state engage
regulation promulgated there appellant pleaded guilty to an
1983 term, most of which were No. 82-357, decision announced in a proportionality review.
under, or any violation of seizure unrelated charge and received a
issued in calendar year 1984. January 11, 1984.) The Supreme Court, while
and forfeiture and all provisions suspended sentence and three
alluding to the possibility that
of the Internal Revenue Code of years probation. Under the terms
January Death Penalty — Proportionality there may exist "a capital senten-
1954 relating to the seizure, of the probation, he was required
Warrants — Arson Searches In a 7-to-2 decision, the cing system so lacking in other
forfeiture, and disposition of to participate in a
treatment pro-
In a 5-to-4 decision the United Supreme Court ruled that the checks on arbitrariness that it
firearms, as defined in section gram for sexual offenders, to
States Supreme Court reaffirmed Eighth Amendment “does not re- would not pass constitutional
5845(a) of that code, shall, so far report to his probation officer
its position that a search warrant quire, as an invariable rule in muster without comparative pro-
as applicable, extend to seizures regularly and to "be truthful with
or administrative warrant is re- every case, that a state appellate portionality review," failed to
and forfeitures under the provi- the probation officer ‘in all mat-
quired before fire investigators court, before it affirms a death statewhat factors would create ”
sions of this chapter." ters.'
may search a suspected arson site sentence, compare the sentence in such a defective sentencing
In his decision, Chief Justice While in the treatment program
when the search is not made at the the case before it with the system. By this action, the Court
Burger cited Stone United v. he confessed to a 1974 rape and
same time as the extinguishing of penalties imposed in similar cases left open the possibility of review-
States, 167 U.S. 178, 188, and murder.
the fire. if requested to do so by the ing those systems on a case-by-
noted: At the trial, the defendant
"That acquittal on a criminal sought to suppress the admis-
charge is not a bar to a civil action sion. The Supreme Court, in a ma-
by the Government, remedial in jority opinion authored by
nature, arising out of the same Justice White, ultimately con-
facts on which the criminal pro- cluded that the defendant was not
Deadly force ceeding was based has long been
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Chairperson, Department of perience. Benefits include paid track position in its criminal Qualifications include a doc- necessary, with individual
Criminal Justice Sciences. Il- vacation, sick leave, group justice program. torate in criminal justice or a students, and establish effective
linois State University is seeking medical and dental insurance, life Applicants should have a Ph.D. closely related discipline; relationships with, and as ap-
applications for the position of insurance, Florida State Retire- or comparable level of experience established credentials and propriate, play an active role in
chairperson of its 13-member ment System and permanent in a criminal justice-related field. demonstrated commitment to the larger academic, governmen-
Department of Criminal Justice shifts. A background in criminal justice teaching, research and service; tal and corporate community of
Sciences.The position includes a To apply, send resume or con- program administration and academic administrative ex- greater Boston.
12-month tenure-track appoint- tact: Personnel Intake, Sarasota teaching experience are desirable. perience with particular emphasis
ment. Rank and salary are com- County Sheriff’s Department, Preference will be given to per- upon interpersonal relationships Applicants must have a
mensurate with qualifications P.O. Box 4115, Sarasota, FL sons with competence in several in dealing with faculty, staff
and
minimum of an M.S. or other ad-
and experience. 33578. Telephone: (813) 366-9360. of the following areas: criminal students; a record of experience vanced degree, and at least three
Candidates must be able to justice administration; legal with criminal justice practi- to five years professional ex-
relate to a strong multi- Assistant Professor. Stephen F. aspects of criminal justice; correc- tioners, and demonstrated perience in the field of law en-
disciplinary faculty with diverse Austin State University is seek- tions, and related courses in scholarly accomplishments in forcement, corrections or securi-
research and teaching interests. ing qualified applicants for a criminal justice or public ad- criminal justice. ty. Administrative experience in
The department has approx- tenure-track position in the ministration. The position is a senior level, an institution of higher educa-
imately 400 undergraduate and school’s criminal justice pro- Rank open depending on
is academic appointment on tenure tion, along with teaching and/or
graduate majors, excellent gram. qualifications. Salary is com- track. Salary is competitive and curriculum development ex-
research facilities and an out- Duties will include teaching petitive.To apply, send letter of negotiable, depending upon perience, are highly desirable. Ap-
standing internship program. four courses per semester in the application, vita, transcripts and qualifications.Appointment ex- plicants must have excellent in-
Interested candidates should law enforcement and private three letters of recommendation pected on or before September 1, terpersonal and communications
send a letter of application, and a security curriculums. Applicants to: Dr. Willard E. Smith, Depart- 1985. skills.
current vita, five letters of must have a Ph.D. or equivalent ment of Political Science, Univer- To apply, send vita, official Salary range for the position is
reference and a copy of most cur- degree for appointment at the sity of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, transcripts, list of references and negotiable.To apply, send letter
rent transcript. Materials must assistant professor level. (ABD’s Oshkosh, WI 54901. a copy of recent publications to: of application, resume, the names
be received by March 15. Position willconsidered for appointment Dr. Gennaro F. Vito, Chairman, of three references and salary
availableAugust 1. at the rank of instructor. First Director’s Search Committee, history to Dr. Robert W. O’Con-
Send application materials to: preference will be given to those Director, School of Justice Ad- School of J ustice Administration, nor, Associate Dean for Academic
Dr. Reginald Henry, Secretary, applicants who have law enforce- ministration. The University of University of Programs, Northeastern Univer-
Louisville,
Criminal Justice Sciences Chair- ment and/or security agency ex- Louisville invites applications Louisville, KY 40292. Deadline sity, 360 Huntington Avenue,
person Search Committee, Turner perience. Preference will also be and nominations for the position for application is February 1, 102 Churchill Hall, Boston, MA
Hall 145, Illinois State Universi- given those who have
to of director of the School of Justice 1985. 02115. Deadline for applications
ty, Normal. 1L 61761. demonstrated a commitment to Administration. The school offers is January 30.
higher education (full-time c „ge baccalaureate and master’s Faculty Positions. The Ad-
Deputy Sheriff (Patrol Division). teaching experience, rese ?h, degrees in justice administration, ministration of Justice Depart-
The Sarasota County, Fla., etc.) and also includes two POLICE CHIEF
Sheriff s Department is seeking
nationally- ment at the University of
Salary is competitive, with ex- known institutes, the Southern Missouri-St. Louis invites ap-
City of Waterloo, Iowa
new deputies. cellent benefits. The position Police Institute and the National (Population 75,000)
Applicants without police ex- plications for two tenure track
starts September 1, 1985. All ap- Crime Prevention Institute. Mayor/Council form of
perience must have an associate’s positions at the rank of Assistant
plications received by February The director responsible for
is Government
degree or the equivalent; with ex- 18, 1985, will be assured of con- the administration and operation
Professor. The appointments, 130 sworn officers and
perience, 30 semester hours are sideration. contingent upon funding, will
of the school; the administration 30 civilians
required. In addition, applicants To apply, send letter of applica- begin with the 1985 semester.
fall
of 10 faculty, 13 staff persons and
must have vision of 20/100 uncor- Responsible for directing the
tion,current vita, all college and the directors of the SPI and The Ph.D. degree is preferred,
rected, correctable to 20/20; age activities of the Waterloo
university transcripts and three NCP1; participating with faculty however exceptional ABD can-
Police Department in law en-
limit 32, or 35 with acceptable ex- letters ofrecommendation to: concerning the assignment of didates will be considered. Ap-
perience. Screening process in- forcement and crime preven-
Chairman, Criminal Justice teaching responsibilities and ar- must demonstrate a com-
plicants
cludes sucessful completion of tion.
Search Committee, Criminal rangement of curricula; providing mitment to scholarly research.
written exam, strength and en-
Justice Program, Stephen F. encouragement and leadership Responsibilities will include Minimum requirements in-
durance test, polygraph and oral Austin State University, P.O. clude:
foi students; representing the research;, teaching and service.
Bachelor of Arts
board. Box 6178, SFA Station, degree
school with college and university in law enforcement or
Annual salary range from Send vita and three letters of
is Nacogdoches, TX 75962-6178. officials and the community at related field and a minimum
$14,592 to $20,478, plus educa- recommendation to: Dr. Scott H. of 10 years experience as a
large, and the stimulation and
tional incentive monies, depen Faculty Position, Criminal Decker, Chair, Administration of
facilitation of faculty research sworn law enforcement of-
ding on experience. Estimated Justice/Public Administration. Justice, University of Missouri- ficer; or an Associate of Arts
and service. The director is ex-
time to maximum salary three to
twelve months, depending on ex-
The University of Wisconsin at pected to teach one course per St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121. degree and 12 years ex-
Oshkosh is seeking to fill a tenure- semester. Deadline for applications is perience as defined above; or
January 15, 1985. The University a high school graduate and 1
of Missouri-St. Louis is an equal years experience as defined
employment and educational op-
above. Of the above stated
This publication is available in microform, portunity institution. experience levels at least 5
years must be in police ad-
ministration and manage-
Director, Law Enforcement,
ment at the rank of lieuten-
Security and Correctional Prac-
ant or above in a law enforce-
tices Program. Northeastern
ment agency of at least com-
University seeking an in-
is
parable size.
dividual who will, under the ad-
ministrative direction of the Excellent salary and fringe
associate dean for academic pro- benefit package. All inter-
grams, administer part-time pro- view and travel expenses
grams in law enforcement, correc- shall be paid by each prospec-
tions and security. tive applicant.
The individual selected will Interviews are subject to an
direct the overall administration
open meeting law in accor-
N \TJ of the programs; maintain and im- dance with Chapter 28A
prove academic quality; provide
Code of Iowa.
leadership and direction for the
individual program coordinators Complete and detailed
and consultants who are responsi- resume must be received by
University Microfilms
ble for responsible for revising 5:00 P.M. on Friday, January
International courses and updating cur- 18, 1985. Send to:
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