April 26, 2007 edition


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COVER STORY:

Boss on the beat

April 18 was not a happy night for typically mild-mannered Philadelphia police Capt. Frank Bachmayer, commander of the Northeast’s 15th district, the busiest patrol district in the city.
The veteran cop had a hunch that it would pay to keep an eye on Lower Mayfair Playground, at Robbins Avenue and Hawthorne Street.

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EDITORIAL

Learn from his crime

Society’s in big trouble when its movers and shakers in government thumb their noses at the laws that government has created and is supposed to enforce.
Whether it’s a Philadelphia city councilman who drives without a license for 25 years (Angel Ortiz), a congressman who takes bribes from fake Arab sheiks (Ozzie Myers, et al) or a Pennsylvania state lawmaker who accepts an illegal pay raise (take your pick), it’s wrong.
It’s also wrong when the most powerful politician in New Jersey breaks the law. In the case of our friends across the Delaware River, their governor, Jon Corzine, broke Garden State law by . . .

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