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POLICE CODES MAY BE 10-82

CNN - It looks as if it's over-and-out for 10-codes. The Virginia State
Police and some local police departments are dropping them and switching
to plain English. Among the codes that have been shelved in favor of
their English translation are the mundane 10-23 (arrived at the scene),
the blood-pumping 10-47 (chase in progress) and the grim 10-82 (dead
body. The change comes as the Homeland Security Department presses local
law enforcement authorities to improve communications so that different
agencies can work together without confusion during an emergency.

The 10-code system dates to the 1920s when police radios had only one
channel and officers needed to relay information succinctly. But over
time, departments developed their own 10-codes. A 10-50 to a Virginia
state trooper, for example, means an auto accident. In Maryland, it
means an officer is down. The potential for confusion became all too
plain during such disasters as the September 11 attacks and Hurricane
Katrina, when Virginia state police went to Mississippi's Gulf Coast to
help out.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/18/cop.codes.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories


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NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN CRIME

RICHARD JOHNSON, NY POST - Adam Lippes, who started the adam+eve fashion
line two years ago, caught a group of four shoplifters who are suspected
of knocking off sample sales all over town and selling the wares on eBay
and street corners. Lippes was holding a sample sale at Milk Studios on
West 15th Street Tuesday afternoon when four large women in trench coats
came in. . . When they went to the check-out line, each with one item,
Lippes asked the ladies to take off their coats. One woman tried
distracting Lippes by pulling open her shirt exposing her breasts and
yanking open her pants while shrieking, "What are you trying to say?
Look! I ain't got nothing on me!" Lippes, unfazed, insisted the women
take off their coats. Inside them, he found "huge fake butts made of
nylon in which they had stuffed over $7,000 worth of clothing apiece,"
Leffam said.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11162006/gossip/pagesix/cheeky_thieves_
stuff_butts_pagesix_.htm


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BOSTON TO BILL SONY OVER PLAYSTATION

BOSTON HERALD  - A furious Mayor Thomas M. Menino vowed to bill Sony
Corp. for the chaos that swirled around the release of its PlayStation 3
machine after Boston police had to quell crowds grown frenzied and
unruly by the hype surrounding the coveted consoles. Playstation 3: "We
had to rush in 12 police cars with officers there and take them off the
streets of our city where they're doing their patrols, to squelch the
crowd that we had there," Menino said, referring to a throng of 500 at
Copley Place. "It's something that should not be tolerated," he said.
"It's wrong to take advantage of the public that way, wrong by the
manufacturer and by the retailer."

Japan-based Sony made only 400,000 PlayStation 3's available for the
product's launch, and thousands camped out for days at stores across the
nation for a shot at shelling out $500-plus for the holiday must-have.
"The mayor feels this is a ploy by big business to fill the pockets of
their stockholders on the public's back without any regard for public
safety," said Menino's spokeswoman, Dot Joyce.

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=167837

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