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NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani on Thursday an
grily denied reported Justice Depart
ment findings that an elite unit of the
New York Police Department
(NYPD) engaged in racial profiling
while conducting an aggressive cam
paign of street searches.
The inquiry by federal prosecu
tors began after the 1999 shooting
death of Amadou Diallo, an un
armed African immigrant killed by
four members of the Police Depart
ment’s Street Crime Unit. The offi
cers, acquitted earlier this year, had
said Diallo matched the description
of a rape suspect.
In a 30-minute tirade at City Hall
on Thursday, Giuliani said if offi
cers ignored the race of possible
suspects, the city’s crime rate would
skyrocket, and he questioned the
timing of the leak of the findings,
coming one month before the No
vember elections.
“There’s obviously something
going on in the Clinton administra
tion to try to target police depart
ments unfairly; but to target the
NYPD is absurd,” Giuliani said.
“There is no racial profiling in
the New York City Police Depart
ment,” the mayor said. “We will
fight this case anywhere.”
Attorney General Janet Reno de
clined to comment, and White
House officials referred questions
to Reno’s office.
Under civil rights laws, the Justice
Department could ask a judge to or
der broad changes in the operations
of the NYPD’s Street Crimes Unit
and possible oversight by a federal
monitor. Giuliani denied reports his
staff had met with U.S attorneys to
try to avert a lawsuit.
Federal prosecutors based their
findings, reported by the New York
Times and New York 1 television, on
a statistical analysis of people
searched by the unit’s officers be
cause they were suspected of com
mitting crimes or carrying guns. New
York 1, citing unidentified sources,
said investigators found blacks and
Latinos accounted for 85 percent of
stop-and-frisk cases.
Herbert Haddad, a spokesman
for the U.S. attorney’s office, would
say only that the investigation was
continuing.
“There is no
racial profiling in
the New York City
Police Depart
ment. We will
fight this case
anywhere.”
— Rudy Giuliani
New York City mayor
Giuliani said that although 89.2
percent of the suspects stopped and
frisked are black or Hispanic, that
number corresponds to the percent-
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ATLANTA (AP) — The
number of American adults who
smoke held steady in 1998 at one
in four — a rate that hardly
budged during the 1990s despite
anti-tobacco campaigns and new
kick-the-habit aids like nicotine
gum and the patch.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention report
ed Thursday that 24.1 percent
of Americans 18 and older
smoked cigarettes in 1998, the
latest year for which figures are
available. The rate was 24.7
percent in 1997 and 25.5 per
cent in 1990.
The numbers fall far short of
the CDC’s goal of cutting the
adult smoking rate to 15 percent
by 2000.
The nation’s smoking rate has
dropped sharply since 1965,
when 44 percent of adults were
smokers. The figure leveled off in
the 1990s — hovering between
24.1 and 26.5 percent — in part
because smoking increased
among 18-to-24-year-olds, who
probably started in high school,
the CDC said.
Dr. Corinne Husten. a medical
officer with the CDC Office on
Smoking and Health, said there
are signs the smoking rate can go
much lower.
The 1998 survey found that
only 11.3 percent of college-edu
cated adults smoke and 39.2 per
cent of adult smokers had tried to
quit in the preceding year.
age of blacks and Hispanicside;
by witnesses as criminal suspq
The mayor did not saywhi
centage of stop-and-frisk sti
done from witness conipt
compared to those done at
cretion of officers, and the) 1
did not release the figures.
The NYPD’s stop-and-frisi;
cies have been under review
er agencies, as well. In Jm
U.S. Commission on Civil
concluded that the departmti
properly used racial profi
stop and question people,
cember, the state attorney gei
office issued a report saying
and Hispanics are more
whites to be stopped and frisk
city officers.
Giuliani and Police Coe
sioner Bernard Kerik defends
unit’s officers. The Street
Unit, comprised of undercove:
cers who patrol high-crime
has been credited for greatly
ing violent crime in the
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man accused of smotfie
his 9-year-old daughter
cause she did not get a
with the woman he loved
convicted of murder Thurt
William Brad Jackson,
faces 20 to 28 years inp:
at sentencing. No senter#
date was set.
Jackson had reported
daughter, Valiree, missing
October on the day she
touching off a monthlong
by volunteers and police.
At his trial, Jackson adi
he buried Valiree but def
killing her. He said hepanii
after finding her lifeless bodl
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