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<text id=90TT1298>
<title>
May 21, 1990: American Notes:Crime
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 21, 1990 John Sununu:Bush's Bad Cop
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 33
American Notes
CRIME
A Vested Interest
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<body>
<p> As drug-related violence and semiautomatic assault rifles
have spread across the nation, an increasing number of police
departments have equipped their officers with bulletproof
vests. Now drug dealers are following the lead. Over the past
few years, police in Washington and other cities have noticed
an upsurge in hoodlums clad in "soft body armor" capable of
stopping a shot from a .357 Magnum, to say nothing of less
powerful police sidearms.
</p>
<p> The drug merchants seem more interested in protecting
themselves from trigger-happy rivals than from the cops. But
the trend has prompted police to change their tactics. The
prevalence of bulletproof vests not only forces officers to aim
for the head if a gun-wielding suspect does not fall after
being shot in the chest. It also, says Hubert Williams,
president of the Washington-based Police Foundation, makes them
more likely to shoot first.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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