21.   On Tuesday, she sent a letter to Giuliani after Morgenthau turned down her request to include an examination of police tactics in his grand jury investigation.

22.   Once they have joined, recruits are trained in physical fitness, police tactics and the use of weapons.

23.   Once common at shareholder meetings, the ranks of the sokaiya have been thinned by tougher police tactics and harsher penalties against implicated executives.

24.   Police tactics in confronting stalkers tend to be more aggressive, although few cities have units in place.

25.   Professor Andrew Karmen, a criminologist at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that improved police tactics were partly responsible.

26.   Recruitment efforts have been undermined as well by the widespread alienation of black New Yorkers who believe that police tactics in the city are too aggressive and racially biased.

27.   Since then, increasingly aggressive police tactics have convinced many law-abiding residents that officers see them as criminal suspects first.

28.   Such police tactics invoke the notion of collective guilt, which President Boris Yeltsin has warned against, and which is inimical to the spirit of a working democracy.

29.   The change took the better part of a decade, a series of prosecutions of violent drug gangs, aggressive police tactics, money and manpower.

30.   The crime rate had to do more with demographics and socio-economics, he concluded, than police tactics.