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If a husband knocks his wife down, breaks her jaw or arm - abuses her terribly - he will be picked up and put in jail.
He contends that such abuses of power are common--and largely ignored--in the specialized anti-gang and anti-drug units of the Rampart Division.
It isn't as though the issue of human-rights abuses has gone away; China's crackdown on the Falun Gong continues (click here to read a summary of a recent Amnesty International report, and here to read a pretty good Post Op-Ed column by E.J.
The "TRB" column argues that the intelligence community should use its Cold War-era spying apparatus to monitor human rights abuses.
One could slyly infer from the A12 juxtaposition that with the GOP seeking all top donors to give $1 million apiece, Watergate-style abuses will inevitably reoccur.