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`December 15, 2004
Associated Press [1]
LAPD Plan to Curb Flashlight Beatings
`"The city's police commission unveiled
a plan Tuesday [the 14th] aimed at dis-
couraging officers from using [heavy
metal] flashlights as weapons, except
in emergencies.
`"The proposal comes months after a
televised beating by Officer John Hatfield
showed him striking a motorist 11 times
following a foot chase."
`A local criminal justice director of the
ACLU claims
`PLAN / PROPOSAL vs law
DISCOURAGING vs prohibiting
EXCEPT vs never
`"was a good start."
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`
From Ingo Muller's *Hitler's Justice: The
Courts Of The Third Reich* [2]:
`"The [Nazi] judicial system also quickly
learned to live with the fact that defen-
dants appeared in court bearing signs
of torture or testified that confessions
had been extracted from them by force.
`"In the beginning, these cases caused
the judges acute embarrassment, and
the minister of justice was unable to
accept such police interference in the
operations of the courts.
`"A committee of top legal advisers from
the Ministry of Justice and the Gestapo
found a practical solution, however:
`"they legalized the terror to such an
extent that they even established a
'STANDARD CLUB' to be used in
beatings, so that torture would at least
be regulated.
`"The minutes of the meeting expose
more clearly than almost any other
document the judicial system's tactics
and CONTEMPT FOR HUMAN LIFE
during the Third Reich...."
```[1]
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Police-Beating.html?pagewanted=print&position=
`[2]
Quote at page 178 of the book pub-
lished by Harvard University Press in
1991, seven years after the original
German edition.
`The minutes of the meeting are re-
produced in full on pages 178, 179,
180.
`ISBNs:
0 674 40418 1 cloth
0 674 40419 X paperback
`I capitalized the words "standard club"
and "contempt for human life" to aid
attention.
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