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• September - October 1998
  • Grand Jury Clears Police Officers Who Shot HoustonMan in the Back 9 Times in Drug Raid; Officers Fired
  • Hernandez Family Accepts "Humanitarian" Paymentfor Son's Shooting Death by Anti-Drug Marine Patrol; Defense DepartmentProbe of Killing Criticizes Training and Supervision of Patrol
  • Family of Chad MacDonald, Murdered Teen Informant,Sues Police; California Passes Law Limiting Use of Juvenile Informants
  • Black Man Jailed in Oklahoma 25 Days for Legal Herb
     
• July - August 1998
  • Police Leaders: Illicit Drug Markets Contribute to Police Corruption
  • Houston Police Shoot Man in Back 9 Times in Botched Drug Raid, Killing Him; No Drugs Found
  • Feds Indict 29 People in Plano, TX for Drug Deaths
  • House Crime Subcommittee Holds Hearing on DEA Abuses in Investigating Drug Diversion
  • Senators Want Probe of Customs Searches in Chicago
  • Reverse Money Laundering Sting in Canada Increased Drug Trade, Failed to Obtain Government Permission
     
• May - June 1998
  • Police Wiretapped 2.27 million Conversations in `97
  • "Driving While Black," Motorists Sue States, Claiming Racist Police Practices
  • Georgia National Guard Stage Mock Anti-Drug Assault for Eighth-Graders
  • Police Rewarding Youth to Inform on Other Students
  • Another NYPD Raid Leads to No Drugs; Terrorized Citizens Sue
     
• March - April 1998
  • Supreme Court to Review Searches Without Consent or Probable Cause During Traffic Stops
  • 9th Circuit Rules Warrantless Use of Heat Detection Device Illegal in Marijuana Case
  • Teen Drug Informant Murdered in California
  • More Schools Using Dogs to Sniff Out Drugs
     
• February 1998
  • Forty-Four Ohio Police Officers Arrested For Protecting Cocaine Traffickers
  • Drug Defendant Can Offer Clean Record As Evidence of Entrapment, Says 9th Circuit
     
• January 1998
  • FBI Investigates Indianapolis Police For Drug Theft
  • Police Going Back to High School to Make Undercover Drug Buys
  • Ohio Supreme Court Decision Expected to Reduce Police Use of Traffic Stops as Ploy for Drug Searches
     
• November - December 1997
  • California Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Search Warrant Before Use of Electronic Tracking Devices
  • FBI Chemists Find Cocaine on Majority of Paper Currency in U.S.

• September - October 1997
  • FBI Director Advocates Encryption Regulation to Counter Drug Conspiracies
  • FBI Proposes to Modify Nation's Phone Network to Advance Wiretapping
  • Using Drug-Sniffing Dogs Without a Warrant Is Generally Illegal, Says Oregon Appeals Court
  • California Court OKs Police Manufacture of Rock Cocaine
     
• July 1997
  • 18-Year Old Texan, Herding Goats, Killed by U.S. Marine Corps Anti-Drug Patrol; Criminal Investigation of Shooting Underway
  • S.W.A.T. Team Use In U.S. Law Enforcement Dramatically Increases
  • Orlando Area Drug Squad Disproportionately Searches Black Drivers
     
• May - June 1997
  • New York Narcotics Cop Testifies That Corrupt Officer Thwarted Internal Affairs Investigation
  • Philadelphia Ordered to Report on Police Reform
  • Corrupt Officer in Philadelphia Gets 3-Year Sentence; Prosecutors Worry It Will Undermine Cooperation
     
• January 1997
  • Seven Chicago Police Officers Indicted in Drug Sting
  • NYPD Commissioner Angers Dominicans with Proposal to Post Officers There
  • Facing Prison, New Jersey Ex-Prosecutor Flees, Commits Suicide
     
• December 1996
  • Kansas City Police Department Has Kept Drug Seizure Money Owed to School Districts
  • Maryland State Police Still Targeting Black Motorists, According to ACLU
  • Fewer Federal Drug Prosecutions, More Convictions Under Clinton Administration
     
• October 1996
  • Drilling Holes to Search for Drugs Outrages Truck Drivers

• September 1996
  • Maryland State's Attorney Andrew L. Sonner's Drug Prosecution Priorities Spark Controversy
  • Border Corruption Task Force Closes Without Indictments
  • Makers of the Quadro Tracker® Are Indicted, Some Still Have Faith

• March 1996
  • Police Install Surveillance Cameras in Baltimore
  • FBI Calls Drug "Detection" Device "A Fraud"

• February 1996
  • Drug "Detection" Device Marketed to Schools; Secret Technology Creates Skepticism

• May 1995
  • Law Enforcement Leaders Denounce War on Drugs at Hoover Summit
  • Justice Department to Review National Drug Intelligence Center
  • Three Officers Sue DEA For Harassment
  • Anti-Drug Organizer Charged With Federal Cocaine Trafficking
  • National Law Journal Series Uncovers World of Informants
  • Reason Presents Case of Plastics Manufacturer Caught in Drug Conspiracy
  • The Progressive Describes Crack-Making by Santa Ana Police

• April 1995
  • FBI Adds International Drug Dealer to "Most-Wanted" List
  • DEA Ordered to Pay $1 Million for Botched Sting
  • Police Chiefs See Drug Abuse as Cause of Violent Crime, New Survey Shows

• February 1995
  • Another California Police Force Under Fire for Reverse Sting Operations
  • Maryland Police Agree to End Racial Drug Courier Profiles

• January 1995
  • California Man Gets $2.75 Million Settlement From U.S. Government; Informant's False Tip Leads to Shootout in Drug Raid
  • Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Heat Emissions Case
  • Consent to Search Does Not Include Consent to Pry Back of the Interior Panel of a Car, Court Rules

• December 1994
  • At Least 42% of Police-Sold Crack Gets to Users; Santa Ana, California Police Programs to Make and Sell Crack Under Attack
  • Florida-Bahamas Day Cruises Used By Drug Gangs, Says Border Patrol
  • Racial Bias in Airport Detainment and Search Alleged in ACLU Lawsuit
  • DEA to Send Agents to Help Combat Gang Violence
  • Kevin Elders May Have Been Set Up
  • "Smoke a Joint, Lose Your License" Law Goes Into Effect in California

• November 1994
  • DARE Update
  • Santa Ana Police Make Crack to Use in Busts
  • DEA Guide Tells "How To Hold Your Own in a Drug Legalization Debate"
  • When It's Marijuana Harvesting Time, Residents Look to the Skies

• June 1993
  • New York Commission Targets Corrupt DEA Task Force
  • Jailed Federal Judge Bribed by Drug Dealer Faces Impeachment

• April 1993
  • Grand Jury Accuses Police, Prosecutors of Shielding Prominent Local Figures
  • Former Durham, N.C. Prosecutor Charged With Cocaine Trafficking
  • Drug Cases Dismissed When Investigation Shows Police Falsified Reports
  • Drug-Related Conviction of Prominent Virginia Lawyer Overturned
  • Arrest of New York Officers for Heroin Sales May Jeopardize Hundreds of Cases
  • Officer in Nation's Capital Charged With Marijuana Possession

• March 1993
  • Former Florida Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Cocaine Trafficking

• February 1993
  • Customs, DEA, FBI Split Over Protection of Accused Informant
  • Garland, Texas Officer Sued Over Fatal Drug Raid Shooting
  • Two Texas Families Sue Over Allegedly Botched Drug Raids
  • FBI, Customs Agents Charged With Stealing, Laundering Drug Money
  • Miami Judge Charged With Bribery and Extortion Weeps on Stand
  • Former Florida Sheriff Guilty of Drug Trafficking
  • Federal Jurors Find Police Violated Woman's Rights in Body Search
  • North Carolina Mayor Resigns Four Months After Drug Indictment

• January 1993
  • Parents' Suit Blocked in Police Killing of Unarmed Man
  • Former Dallas Police Convicted of Extorting Crack Dealers
  • Colombian Judge Arrested in Miami With Kilo Heroin
  • Anti-Drug Activist Arrested for Drug Sale