Law enforcement agencies are increasingly turning to new, hightech weapons like computers and digital imaging systems to fight the war on crime.
With the implementation of the world's largest recorder's office imaging system, officials in Cook County, Ill., will reduce the time required to access more than 30 million inventoried documents and increase efficiency in entering the 4,000 new documents the department receives daily.
Not since the days preceding the Civil War have the states been so popular.In Congress's haste to do major dental surgery on what members see as the vast federal mouth, it has determined that most things would be much better if left to the states.
By Mel Powell, executive secretary of the Western Governmental Research Association, Los Alamitos, Calif.
In Orange County's conservative climate of unfettered free enterprise, the independently elected Treasurer Bob Citron was free to manage the California county's investment pool "like a business" without governmental control and with a minimum degree of accountability.
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