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Their differences of opinion never focused on personal matters, but rather tactical questions when pursuing criminals. |
"Like what street we should turn down when searching for a criminal, or what door should we kick in at a house when executing a search warrant?" Miller said. |
"And if Brian made a good decision, I would compliment him and say, 'Good call,' " Pace said. |
Among the department's most productive officers, the two said they never relished making arrests, though they have handcuffed thousands of suspects. "We made arrests because we had a good case and the person had to be arrested," Pace said. |
Sometimes there was a sense of satisfaction, Miller acknowledged, if the criminal removed from the streets had committed "awful crimes." |
As when they helped build a case to put members of the LA Boys gang behind bars. |
"The members of this gang would kidnap other drug dealers and hold them ransom. There were murders and other acts of violence," Pace said. "We learned from a state prison guard that Sly Green was running the gang from prison using a telephone." |
After investigating the case, they realized that it was beyond the scope of their resources, and they contacted the FBI and other law enforcement officials. The result was a major crackdown on gang-related violence and numerous convictions with lengthy prison terms. |
The most harrowing experience for Pace and Miller happened in 1985, several years after they had been promoted from patrol officers to detectives. |
"We were investigating reports of drug sales on Spring and William streets, and a guy pulled out a handgun and began shooting at us at point-blank range. I don't know how he missed," Miller said. |
The shooter was killed when the detectives re-turned fire. "When we got back to Police Headquarters, the first thing we did was go next door to St. Joseph's Cathedral and say a prayer thanking God for being with us," Miller said. |
More of their war stories will undoubtedly be shared when friends gather to toast their careers at 6 p.m. Feb. 3 in the Knights of Columbus Monsignor Nash Center, 261 Legion Drive, Buffalo. |
Offering one of the best compliments anyone on the force could hope for was Police Commissioner Rocco J. Diina. |
"They're truly Buffalo's finest. They bring meaning to the words 'Buffalo's finest.' They set an example for other officers," Diina said. |
Marveling at the longevity of their partnership, police spokesman Lt. Larry J. Baehre said, "It's a huge accomplishment, because you spend more time with your police partner than you do your family. Most officers routinely change partners every several years." |
The defining moments that helped shape Pace's and Miller's perspectives on police work occurred mostly in off-duty hours. |
Working a second-front job for years as a cement mason, Pace said, provided him with a sense of balance in viewing the world. "My second job allowed me to meet some terrific people outside of police work," he said in explaining the importance of understanding human nature as a police officer. |
For Miller, the decision to treat people with respect, even the most hard-boiled of criminals, was something he always strived to accomplish. |
But when his son committed suicide a few years ago, the sacredness of life was all the more deeply impressed upon him. |
"I heard the shot go off when my son took his life. He suffered from mental illness," Miller recalled. "Life became even more precious to me. I could see how mental illness affected people." |
One of the first people to arrive at Miller's home after the suicide was his partner. |
"I supported Brian any way I could," Pace said. |
That's how it has always been for these two officers. They have been there for each other, day in and day out. |
In retirement, it will stay the same. |
Miller plans to perfect the art of being a grandparent. |
"I've got three grandchildren and one on the way," said Miller, who intends to spend more time with them. Pace said he has no plans except to "enjoy the holidays, for starters." |
But both agreed that they would visit each other regularly. |
Midwestern states better buckle up because a new bad guy’s in town. I’m not talking about any gun-toting cowboys, though. I’m talking about corn. |
A study published Monday in Nature Sustainability shows how deadly this crop can be. And eating it isn’t the killer; growing it is. Turns out that the air pollution from growing corn is behind an estimated 4,300 premature deaths a year. |
Growing corn results in emissions of particulate matter, a dangerous pollutant that is so small it winds up in your lungs when inhaled and can even affect your heart. This forms from the ammonia, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds released during fertilizer and manure application, the use of... |
The University of Minnesota team calculated all this by running pollution inventory models in each of the top 2,000 corn-growing counties with each county’s agricultural data between 2010 and 2014. The authors also looked at county-level data on the amount of fertilizer used per metric ton of corn and coupled it all wi... |
Different parts of the U.S. are definitely feeling these impacts differently, as the study points out. States like Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Indiana make up a little over half the study’s mortalities. Illinois really has it bad with nearly 800 premature deaths a year thanks to its beloved corn. Cities li... |
The study is clear that it doesn’t paint a full picture, either. The researchers didn’t account for the pollution that results from where the corn goes after it grows. Like producing ethanol biofuel or animal feed. And this is a tiny piece of our nation’s—and world’s—air pollution problem. The World Health Organization... |
Anyway, more than 90 million acres go toward growing corn. Maybe it’s time to rethink how we grow it if we want to keep it around while protecting the people who live near its farms. |
Volunteers have rescued a massive leatherback turtle off a Massachusetts beach. |
The Cape Cod Times reports that the turtle was spotted on First Encounter Beach in Eastham at around 3:30 p.m. Sunday. |
Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary Director Robert Prescott says the juvenile turtle weighed between 400 and 500 pounds, and it took six volunteers to take it off the beach. |
Prescott says leatherbacks are the largest of all sea turtles, and can weigh up to 2,000 pounds. |
He says the rescued turtle looked to be in great shape. |
Prescott says the turtle has been transported to the New England Aquarium where it will be examined. |
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on Sept. 21, 2016, in Toledo, Ohio. |
During the taping of a Fox News town hall hosted by Sean Hannity on Wednesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he is open to a nationwide “stop and frisk” policy because it “worked incredibly well” in New York City. |
As the New York Police Department defines “stop and frisk,” a police officer is “authorized” to stop, question or search a person when he or she “reasonably suspects that a person has committed, is committing or is about to commit a felony or a Penal Law misdemeanor.” The policy, often associated with the crime-fightin... |
…New York State put on the books two new anticrime statutes. But when Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the measures into law, he provoked a vehement burst of criticism. |
An article published exactly a year later reported that the constitutionality of the statute was still being questioned, even as other states had passed similar laws. For example, the Uniform Arrest Act in Delaware, Rhode Island and New Hampshire allowed police to detain anyone, based on a “reasonable ground to suspect... |
One warm July afternoon in 1964, off-duty New York City Policeman Samuel Lasky heard a noise outside his apartment door in suburban Mount Vernon. Two strangers were tiptoeing down the hall. Lasky hurriedly grabbed his pistol and managed to collar one, John F. Peters, who protested that he was merely visiting a married ... |
Beyond that, by a vote of 5 to 2, the court specifically upheld New York’s controversial “stop and frisk” law, which empowers a policeman not only to ‘pat down’ a suspect for concealed weapons in any public place, but also to seize ‘any other’ illegal objects that he finds in the process. |
Danse macabre - the dance of death - was a medieval theme fostered by 14th century plagues and wars. The most famous work inspired by it was a 15th century set of 51 paintings by German artist Hans Holbein. The series depicts the skeletal figure of death surprising its victims as they go about their daily lives. |
In the recent Karachi heatwave the over-flowing Karachi mortuaries and hospitals only evoked barbs and blame game. Jam Mehtab, the Sindh health minister, callously declared that 65 percent who perished were drug-addicts and homeless people. |
On September 26, 2011, a bus crammed with 108 students and staff of Millat Grammar School Faisalabad met a harrowing accident at Kallar Kahar. Thirty-five people died; 29 of them were schoolchildren. The post-tragedy investigations revealed that all bus documents were forged including its route permit and fitness certi... |
On May 16, 2015, 6 siblings of a family, aged 1 to 12 years perished in a fire at their home in Lahore, the ‘Paris’ of Pakistan. The distraught family alleged that with no response from the vaunted Rescue 1122, they rushed to a nearby fire-station. By the time the empty fire-tenders were filled with water and the antiq... |
The APS Peshawar tragedy evoked yet another false dictum; ‘We shall not forget’. We naively thought a tragedy of such agonising proportions could melt the heartless; but that was not to be. In his book ‘The Empathic Civilisation’, Jeremy Rifkins insists that human beings are ‘Homo Empathicus’; defined by the ability to... |
Of all the imperatives that forge a nation, nothing is a more potent recipe for its degeneration and disintegration than one in which human life becomes worthless. Emperor Humayun ordered the nobility to pay Nizam Saqqa homage worthy of a king. As for Nizam, in a bid to be remembered, he issued coins made of his leathe... |
In the wake of the Safoora bus carnage, the prime minister addressed his summoned political kith and kin. Seated in resplendent glory; tables adorned with flowers, food and beverages, the PM muttered a few words about the snuffed away lives at Safoora Goth. Over with the ritual, he then had the gall to ask the particip... |
No government, system or institution is perfect. However, be it the London/Spain train bombings, America’s 9/11, the Sri Lankan LTTE insurgency, the Belsan school siege in Russia that left 334 including 186 children dead or the murder of 77 by Anders Breivik in Norway; tackling the aftermath to ensure they are never re... |
Pakistan, with its geo-strategic location, has globally the second largest coal and fifth largest gold and copper reserves. With the largest integrated irrigation network, we are one of the largest producers of milk, cotton, wheat and rice; and we have one of the largest pools of human resource. Our 1046 kilometre coas... |
The only answer that comes to mind is that the elephant (debt liabilities at Rs19.3 trillion) is being killed for its ivory. |
Today, as Nietzsche said: “The state is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth; I, the state, am the people.” Miniature Pakistani flags, mere lapel pins, adorn many a chest of our political elite; the beating heart underneath seemingly throbs to the hum-dum of ... |
Once voted the most memorable movie line of all time, a quote from ‘Gone with the Wind’ has an uncaring Rhett Butler telling Scarlett O’Hara, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn”. Driven by this mindset, our rulers have forged a (mesaaq-e-jamhooriat) partnership; not for the good of the common man but for the perver... |
It is not our tragedies that shape the future; it is the abysmal response that does. The only means to our very survival, as a state and nation, is that our ‘emperors’ feel the afflictions of those ruled. It is their apathy alone that spawns the scourge of terrorism, corruption and cronyism. Empathy, the only antidote ... |
The writer is a freelance contributor. |
empathise. Apathy has seeped through the thoroughly cracked facade of governance into the very fabric of our society. Dr Jean Lipman, a scholar on leadership traits, defines toxic leaders as those whose “dysfunctional personal characteristics generate enduring poisonous effects on the nations they lead.” Our ‘toxic lea... |
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The Conservatives must become the “political party of the low paid”, a business minister is set to say. |
In a speech today Matthew Hancock will say that “tackling low pay is both a moral and an economic imperative”. |
The Tory MP for West Suffolk will say that it is “vital the modern Conservative Party is and is seen to be the party of the low paid”. |
He will add that the Coalition must support workers by tackling immigration in order to stop wages being undercut. |
“We must be on the side of the low paid.” he will say in a speech to the Bright Blue group, the modernising wing of the Tory party. |
Mr Hancock will also say the only way to compete in the global race is to “tackle low pay by tackling low productivity” to “ensure globalisation is a race to the top, not a race to the bottom”. |
Mr Hancock, a minister in the department for Business, Innovation and Skills, will also say the Government must tackle immigration in order to help Britain’s workers. |
Mr Hancock was promoted in David Cameron's last reshuffle. |
He was ridiculed after he in an interview likened himself to wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill and William Pitt, who became the youngest Prime Minister in the late 18th century aged 24. |
What does Tom Read Wilson do on Celebs Go Dating 2019, when was he on The Voice and is he in a relationship? |
CELEBS Go Dating simply wouldn't be the same without the superbly eloquent Tom Read Wilson and his charming personality and dashing looks. |
Where is Tom Read Wilson from? |
Tom was born in Berkshire but currently lives in London. |
After attending Bradfield College, he moved to Pangbourne College where he was a regular feature of the school plays. |
In 2010, he attended the Royal Academy of Music, which catapulted his career into the world of show business. |
Following his studies, he’s performed in pantomimes and theatre productions all over the world. |
What does Tom Read Wilson do on Celebs Go Dating? |
Tom Read Wilson is best known for being the receptionist on E4’s Celebs Go Dating. |
As the dating experts try to match-make a number of famous faces, the bubbly TV personality is on hand to make them feel comfortable. |
Tom greets the stars and offers them some reassuring words of advice as they prepare for their dates. |
He proved very popular with viewers and in 2017 Tom was even in talks for his own spin-off show with Mr Essex. |
Celebs starring in the latest series of Celebs Go Dating include Megan McKenna, Georgia Steel and Pete Wicks and it's the FINAL on March 21, 2019. |
When was Tom Read Wilson on The Voice? |
In early 2016, the British public fell in love with Tom when he appeared on The Voice UK. |
Even though none of the judges turned around for his charming rendition of Accentuate the Positive, they couldn’t help but be won over by his personality. |
Now he's said goodbye to dreams of a record contract and settled into the groove of reality TV shows about other people, appearing on programmes like Big Brother's Bit On The Side. |
Along with host Rylan Clark-Neal, he read out viewers' tweets, trawled through media reports and shared general bits of gossip with the audience. |
Is Tom Read Wilson in a relationship? |
It's not yet known if Tom is in a relationship. |
The star may enjoy getting stuck in with the celebs' dating lives but he keeps his own cards close to his chest. |
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