Officer Laptop
August, 2000
Bill Clinton campaigned for president with the promise to put 100,000 new cops on the streets. With a law enforcement officer on every block, he said, Americans would feel "freer from fear." When Congress made the initiative part of its 1994 crime bill, Clinton extolled the men in blue, saying "there is simply no better crime-fighting tool to be found."Despite $9 billion in federal spending, the 100,000 cops never materialized, at least not in a form you would recognize. Fede...
