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Big City…Big Crime. Corruption on the part of Civil employees is a threat in any government. When it is the Police though, it has an impact on community trust and impacts the ability of the good cops to do their job.
The District of Columbia has more policemen per capita than any city in the world. Between the dozen or so local and Federal Police Departments (FBI, Secret Service, Customs, ATF, etc), quasi police organizations such as the Federal Protective Service, the Transit Police guarding the city's bus and subway system, and a host of private police guarding various buildings and facilities – there are actually enough police in DC to station one on every street corner in the city…several times over. During the riots of 1968 after MLK was assassinated, they actually did that with some small help from the National Guard.
110 D.C. Police Officers' Arrests Since 2009 Leads To Questions, Scrutiny
Police officials in the nation's capital have been facing recent questions about headline-making arrests — not of hardened street criminals but of their own officers.
In a single month, one District of Columbia police officer was accused of taking semi-nude pictures of a 15-year-old runaway and another was charged with running a prostitution operation involving teenage girls. A third was indicted on an attempted murder charge, accused of striking his wife in the head with a light fixture.
Police say the arrests aren't representative of the entire department, which includes about 4,500 officers and civilian employees. Still, more than 100 officers in the last five years have been arrested on charges ranging from traffic offenses to murder to money laundering, and the latest instances have increased concerns about training, supervision and accountability. The D.C. Council has set a hearing to discuss the problem and Police Chief Cathy Lanier has met with residents to assuage fears of a misbehaving department.
"We don't think we have a department out of control, and I think that oftentimes is the image that is portrayed," she said in an interview, noting that the majority of arrests are not for on-duty corruption but instead involve off-duty misconduct that is harder to police.
The hearing Friday will focus on how applicants are screened and what services are available to prevent alcohol abuse and domestic violence, two prevalent problems, said Councilmember Tommy Wells, who chairs the public safety committee.
"I think it's extremely important that the public have confidence in our police force and we've had three high-profile cases of serious police misconduct, albeit generally off-duty," Wells said.
Police department figures show the arrests of about 110 police officers, for both on- and off-duty conduct, since 2009. Many of the arrests involved traffic violations or involved cases that were dropped or ended in acquittal.
Among the most serious cases was Richmond Phillips, who received life without parole last year for the slayings of his mistress and baby daughter. Wendel Palmer was convicted last year of sexually abusing a girl who participated in his church choir, while Kenneth Furr received a 14-month sentence for an armed altercation that began after prosecutors say he solicited sex from a transgender prostitute.
Lanier has said many of the arrested officers were brought onto the force during a time of lax hiring standards and wouldn't be qualified to serve today. She said that in some cases the arbitration process has required the department to rehire officers it fired. She said the department has dramatically tightened its recruitment practices to mandate polygraph exams and that only one of about 25 applicants is now hired.
The department also tracks warning signs like missed commitments and abuse of sick leave. And it requires officers to report off-duty arrests, which Lanier contends can make the numbers look worse than in cities that lack that requirement.
"I feel comfortable that our recruiting process, the background screening we do, is as tight as we can get," Lanier said at the meeting. "But I also realize that there are people that are on the police department that came through at a time when there was not that strict background (check), and those are the people that we want to make sure that if they are involved in misconduct, that we weed those people out."
But resident Khadijah Tribble, 42, told the chief she was unconvinced the misconduct was isolated.
"Aren't these trends troubling and isn't it worth our due diligence to do a thorough, independent investigation of this trend?" Tribble said in an interview.
Robert Kane, the director of the Drexel University criminal justice program who has studied police misconduct, said the number of arrests wasn't necessarily shocking for a big-city police department.
At least 43 New York City police officers are known to have been arrested between 2011 and 2013 on charges including gun-running, drunken driving, perjury, a ticket-fixing scam and a cannibalism plot. A Los Angeles police officer was charged with stomping a handcuffed woman who later lost consciousness and died. Dozens of Memphis, Tenn., officers have been arrested in recent years.
Kane said that on-duty police misconduct can be reliably defined, off-duty misbehavior by officers is studied less often.
"We know what factors explain police misconduct, when police officers stop people and extort money from them," he said. "What do we know about officers who walk into a liquor store when off-duty and rob it at gunpoint for some beer?"
In D.C., the first of the recent arrests was on December 2 when officer Marc Washington was charged with taking semi-nude pictures while on-duty of a teenage runaway who had just returned home. Authorities say after responding to the girl's apartment, he directed her into her bedroom and told her to undress so he could photograph injuries. He was arrested after the girl alerted her mother, who contacted police. Soon after being released from jail, Washington was dead from an apparent suicide.
The following week brought the off-duty arrest of Linwood Barnhill Jr., a 24-year-veteran who was charged after police came to his apartment and found a 16-year-old girl who had been reported missing. The girl told police Barnhill had photographed her and offered to pay her to have sex with other men, allegations also made by a second teenager. His lawyer says Barnhill never threatened anyone.
Lanier acknowledged the arrests, especially for on-duty conduct, have shaken the department. But she said she hopes the sight of handcuffed officers sends a message to other officers who would break the law.
"We would like the officers to know that if there's somebody in our midst that is committing criminal conduct and we become aware of it, we will lock them up," Lanier said. "We don't need somebody else to lock them up. We will lock you up."


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Well here it is, December 1. 2012, and another year has almost come and gone. To wrap up 2012, I offer over seventy new photos from the year in Signs & Scenes Gallery 2012
Thanks to the editing assistance of a few readers in putting it all together. I did add a few photos since our last review.

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123 HP OJPro 8740 Solving Printer Problems
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123 HP OJPro 8740 – Solving Printer Problems
Print Quality Troubleshooting
- Ensure that you are using original HP ink cartridge. The HP cartridges are tested with HP printers and are capable of producing best results.
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- Make sure that the paper loaded in the input tray is not too thick or wrinkled.
- Check the type of paper you have inserted. It is advisable to your HP papers for best results. Using other papers are welcome, but it might not provide the desired result as it does when you are using HP papers.
- Click the button that opens the Properties menu and check the print settings. Depending on the software application you use, Properties can also be called as Options, Printer Setup, Printer Properties, Printer or Preferences. Change the print settings listed in the dialog box, according to your need.
- After checking and making necessary changes, print and analyse a print quality report.
How to print a print quality report?
- Slide your fingers across the printer's control panel screen and then tap on the Setup option.
- From the list of options available, select Print Reports.
- To print a quality report, choose Print Quality Report option.
123 HP OJPro 8740 – Solve Copy Problems
When copies are blank or faded
- There is a high chance that the contrast setting can be set to Light. Tap on Copy on the printer's control panel display screen and then select Settings. According to your need, select Light/Darker and then use the arrows to specify the level of darkness/lightness.
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When text cannot be edited
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- Perform one of the following tasks based on the operating system you use.
- Windows 8: Start – – > app bar – – > All apps – – > Printer name – – > Utilities – – > Printer Setup & Software – – > Add more software – – > Customize Software Selection – – > OCR.
- Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP: Start – – > All Programs – – > HP – – > printer name – – > Printer Setup & Software – -> Add more software – – > Customize Software Selection – – > OCR.
- If you have installed the HP software on your Macintosh, then the OCR software might not be installed. To install it, insert the software CD that came with your printer, and click on the HP installer icon on the printer software.
- The document type you have selection should be editable text. It is is classified as graphic, it cannot be converted to text.
- Check where the original document is placed. When the document is scanned as an editable text from ADF, the original must placed in the automatic document feeder. If the document is scanned from the scanner glass, then the original must placed on the scanner glass print side down.
- The original document should have good image quality.
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- Ensure that the computer where the network folder is stored is switched on and connected to the network.
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- The folder name should use only letters or characters that are supported by the operating system.
- The folder name should be in the correct format.
- Valid username and password should be entered.
- The server in which the folder has been created should have free disk space.
- If you have scanned many files to a particular folder, you can change the prefix. The printer can create to 9,999 files using the same name with different prefix and suffix.
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First-time major champions are the rule in golf these days. The last three U.S. Opens, British Opens and PGAs, and last two Masters have welcomed new members to the club.
Curtis Strange suspects more of the same to transpire at this week'sU.S. Open, which starts Thursday at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, a layout that ranges from "quirky" to "ridiculous."
No, Strange is not discounting Tiger Woods, fresh off his Memorial victory two weeks ago, or Phil Mickelson, a five-timeU.S. Open runner-up. But he has a hunch.
"Other than those two, I like Hunter Mahan," said Strange, the ESPN analyst and two-time U.S. Open champion from Hampton...


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Inside the campaign: Reinventing Romney
Mitt Romney, for 90 short minutes Wednesday, transformed himself into a confident, clear-thinking champion of the average Joe. His ability to turn one winning performance into a winning campaign comes down to this: Sustain and complete the Romney Reinvention Project.
In the afterglow of the Denver duel, top campaign advisers said Thursday that the reinvention efforts will include forthcoming ads featuring clips from Romney's much-praised debate performance, and the increased behind-the-scenes role of two close confidants — Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who played President Barack Obama in debate prep, and oldest son Tagg Romney, who has subtly taken a more active role in the selling of a more likable version of his dad.
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( Also on POLITICO: Mitt Romney's reprieve)
"One night doesn't transform the race, but the next three to five days can," a Romney campaign official said. "We just have to stick to our plan and not chase all the rabbits David Axelrod is going to throw out."
Throughout the debate, Mitt Romney was the cool candidate — crisp in his vision and sincere about his capacity to protect the middle class and jobless. He was the Romney his friends have long described but the public has rarely seen. But the question now is how to sustain that performance against a ferociously competitive president whose campaign has done a superior job with ads and speeches at tearing apart Romney's policies and public image.
( See also: Complete coverage of 2012 presidential debates)
Right now, the Romney high command is obsessed with making the candidate seem presidential, a plausible and ultimately preferable alternative to a sitting president.
To this end, Romney will deliver a foreign policy speech Monday at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., and aides believe that event will help them capitalize on the fresh attention to the former governor. Romney will hit hard on the killings of U.S. officials in Libya as evidence that Obama both failed to anticipate threats and then blamed the attack on an anti-Muslim film instead of the terrorists is turned out to be.
The running mates have a debate next Thursday but Romney and Obama don't have a debate again for two weeks, which the Romney campaign sees as breathing space for him to lock in some gains in swing states, where he has been running behind Obama.
For the first time in more than a month, conservatives are making plain they will quit the public bellyaching about his performance.
( PHOTOS: Scenes from the Denver debate)
At Romney headquarters in Boston on Thursday, aides had an enjoyable problem they hadn't had since the primaries: tamping down irrational exuberance. "There's no magic formula" for the treacherous days ahead, a campaign official said. "We're just staying focused: three, four yards and a cloud of dust."
Early this week, top Romney aides began contacting friendly pundits and political allies in Washington about a new umbrella message for the rest of the campaign: what the campaign is calling "the choice narrative," posing a contrast between Obama's policies in the past four years and what Romney would do in the next four. The construct is an effort to continue undermining Obama while responding to voters who in campaign focus groups have said they would like to know more about Romney's policies.


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Far from the movie action scenes and Mythbusters testing ranges, these photographs capture indoor pyrotechnic explosions just as they begin, creating the illusion that the flames can somehow be confined to these frames.
Daniele Kaehr and Joschi Herczeg rigged up a special camera to develop their Explosions series, snapping the photo at the moment of explosion. The images capture the movement of a growing fireball, but rather than focusing on the chaos of destruction, these photos are almost serene, highlighting the ghostly glow of the rolling fire.
Explosions [Bafa Foto via Job's Wife via Ian Brooks]