Reader Response

October, 2002

For the Record"If I could sentence these officers to wear red noses for the bozos they are, I would."—a judge in Cook County, Illinois following his acquittal of five sheriff's deputies on charges that included attempted murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm, official misconduct and obstruction of justice. Two years earlier the officers had been drinking together while off duty. After piling into an SUV, they had a traffic altercation with a suburban couple. The cops began to chase...