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Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, November 24, 1986
Delays hinder
investigations
of police abuse
HOUSTON (AP) — Long delays
hinder investigations of Houston po
lice officers accused of abusing citi
zens and keep suspected officers on
duty for months even in some cases
with substantial evidence of wrong
doing, the Houston Post reported
Sunday.
The police Internal Affairs Divi
sion is hampered by record-keeping
problems, a backlog of cases, a short
age of workers and biased policies in
checking out complaints against offi
cers, the Post reported in a copyright
story.
In more than 200 cases, the spe
cial unit took so long to investigate
that state law prohibited Police Chief
Lee Brown from suspending officers
longer than 15 days without pay, the
newspaper reported.
In a letter, Brown responded to
the investigation by promising that
records of misconduct by Houston
police officers will be computerized
in order to correct some problems.
The internal unit has sought a
computer to help speed complaints
through the system and to prevent
theft or loss of records such as those
missing on 1,043 officers, the Post
reported.
Brown said his department had
some failures in monitoring employ
ees but defended his force.
“To my knowledge, no other ma
jor police department has an inter
nal affairs and review process as ex
tensive and as objective as the
Houston Police Department,” he
said. “We strive to make this depart
ment the best in the country and we
will not tolerate any conduct which
falls below our standards.”
Police have gone to great lengths
to nab officers where evidence
clearly indicated wrongdoing, some
times conducting aerial searches and
using out-of-town detectives to snare
officers suspected of narcotics activ
ity, accepting bribes and theft, the
newspaper reported.
Although most officers never
draw a single complaint, some have
been under investigation virtually
their entire careers, the Post re
ported.
One officer, who chalked up 25
complaints in seven years, was fired
in 1984, but the city’s Civil Service
Commission reinstated him after 37
days without pay, the Post reported.
Some 117 officers each drew
more than 10 complaints between
July 1977 through December 1984.
Of those, 91 remain on duty today.
The number of complaints jumped
from 583 in 1977 to 1,539 in 1985,
according to the newspaper.
The Post said it reviewed 6,771
complaints of alleged misconduct by
at least 3,268 officers from July 1
through Dec. 31, 1984 and also ob
tained information from court re
cords and the Houston Civil Service
Commission.
What’s up
will meet at 7 p.m.
Monday
CLASS OF ’87: Elephant Walk will start at noon at the Lav | ^
rente Sullivan Ross Statue.
TAMU CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION:
404 Rudder.
AGGIE ALLIANCE: all those interested in going to the
pherd convention will meet at 7 p.m. in 167 Read.
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: will meet and give squared?
lessons at 7 p.m. in 226 MSC.
f
Tuesday
CLEAR LAKE AREA HOMETOWN CLUB: will haveai
bonfire party at 4:30 p.m. at No. 704 Lreehouse ApanML
ments. ''‘•alH n l
STUDENT ACTIVITIES SPEAKERS SEMINAR: appln a!,
lions for the 1987 Speakers Seiinnai a i e a\ailalilc thnni. i“ri
today in the Student Activities Office, 208 Pavilion.
FRESHMAN CLASS COUNCIL: entries for the Class of W
T-shirt design contest may be submitted to 216 MSC unifllf,' 11
Dec. 1. I 11
FRESHMAN CLASS COUNCIL: ap plic at ions for committalt t l
chairmen are available through 1 >e< 1 m 2 16 .MSC. , t(l |
A&M LITERARY ARTS CLUB: is now accepting subiii|oi,
!ol
P: applications for Fish Camp '87 co-chairmen?:® 11
in 213 Pavilion.
sions for Litmus.
FISH CAMP
available
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS: students mtere$te:|
in taking actuarial examinations in February should
tact Dr. 11. E. Lacey, head of the Department of Mathenr®'
ics, in 102 Milner Hall.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalioi
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working dm
prior to desired publication date.
Hightower: Farmers
in Texas may benefit
from Israeli expertise
AVDAT, Israel (AP)— Texas Ag
ricultural Commissioner Jim High
tower recently led a group of farm
ers, educators and businessmen on a
two-week tour through Israel to
learn agricultural innovations.
T he delegation was assembled In
the Texas-Israel Exchange, an orga
nization which aims to bring Israeli
farming techniques to Texas farms.
“There’s a lot of interest in this in
Texas,” Hightower said. “What
we’ve been doing isn’t working, and
Israel seems to have some of the an
swers.”
The delegation saw demonstra
tions of dry-land farming techniques
in the Negev Desert, where a guide
explained how farmers could grow
crops and fruit trees with less than
four inches of rain a year.
Walk Horne, a Houston botanist
and lawyer, said the demonstrations
would be helpful to Texas farmers.
“This concept is much more ad
vanced than what we have in Texas,”
he said. “I’ve spent a lot of time in
Presidio and Marfa, and a loti
is directly applicable.”
When he visited Israel in
Hightower said he became
vimed that Israeli expertise in
gation,
fa rrne i
Texas.
After a visit to Texas from Is
Agriculture Minister!
top diversification
oo|relatives could
Deputy
ha m K a t / - ()/ . i he cm:.. ^. (
L
ha
agreement was signed in 1985.
“I'm not sure Washington! )n ,
the idea of us running aroundn
ing directly with nations,
tower told the Dallas Morning
“But it’s the fact of the federal
tern that you can.”
I he organization is funded
slate grant of less than SlO.OOfl
contributions from Jewish
said its director, Sara Ehrman.
1 he group's first project will
l()()-acre farm at Laredo Junior!
lege, where Israeli experts will
ommend crops and techniques!
c ould be viable in the region.
vhi
Teacher expects textbook!
to include Christianity soot
isyst
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Jesus
Christ will begin appearing in text
books because of a rising wave of
censorship charges in American
public schools, said the leader of the
anti-censorship committee of a na
tional teachers’ group.
“I believe within the next go-
around of textbook adoptions, we
will see a lot more attention given to
Christianity,” John M. Kean of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison
said during an interview Saturday
with the San Antonio Express-News.
Kean is among 4,500 educators at
tending the National Council of
Teachers of English convention
through Wednesday in San Antonio.
He is chairman of the group’s Com
mittee Against Censorship and will
be leading a Tuesday workshop to
help teachers combat censorship and
develop policies.
Officials will start including Chris
tianity’s role model in textbooks to
avoid growing criticism of discussing
other religions in texts, Kean pre
dicted.
Today’s public school textbooks,
particularly history, do not discuss
Christianity at all, although English
textbooks previously have carried
stories about Far Eastern religions
such as Buddhism, Kean said.
Kean said publishers and teachers
must discuss Christianity.
mendation to enter a legal tel
recent Tennessee case. Somelf
tian parents, represented btj
cerned Women for Ameria|
the right to exclude theirdi
from literature they objected^
YV7
minis
“There is no way we can deal with
our cultural heritage, our language
heritage and our literature without a
lot of attention being given to Judeo-
Christian values,” he said.
In his position as chairman of the
anti-censorship committee, Kean
said he receives calls from teachers
whose materials are being chal
lenged. He said there has been a
large increase in the number of
censorship attempts since 1980.
“We believe this will hart
c hilling effect," Kean said. ,
viously the parent's right tod®, e
what a child will be exposedio® 1 ' 1
and e
personally think it’s verydaii|?®P' ni
l or us as a democracy that
formed leaders to have a „ e '
*M Ser
of our population not infc
about issues.
“We’re not talking aboutte® 1
sex or dirty films into thedass®^ ‘
but we’re talking about ci
versity,” he said.
adder
ing a:
Unite
“The American Library Associa
tion and the People for the Ameri
can Way counted a 35 percent in
crease in the past year,” he said.
The national council will decide
during its convention about a recom-
Kean said he did not knot
were any 1
school bee
them.
rce
As
black poets whenk Amin
ecause teachers f|ti ons ,
-i- , Mkpai
I wo years ago, a study
that one-third ol the mostce f | t p |s | (
books deal with minorities,he^H
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