1.   The police department is trying to recruit more black officers.

2.   A Treasury official who insisted on anonymity said that the current assistance to Mexico was legal because the department was trying to maintain order in foreign exchange markets.

3.   Afterward, the department tried to conceal the extent of the madness.

4.   After many years of refusing to rein in brutal officers, the department is now trying to ward off the threat of a federal monitor.

5.   But in seeking to negotiate a compromise, the department was apparently trying to avoid establishing a broad precedent on a politically volatile issue.

6.   But Lufkin, who cautioned that he was speaking for himself and not for the Treasury Department, said the department was slowly trying to overcome that.

7.   But the department is trying to ban smart shops, which also sell drug paraphernalia, so it did not want them included.

8.   But the deputy mayor and a village trustee say the department is trying to smear Verbeeck to protect itself.

9.   Commissioner Rose Ochi said the department should try to retain the now-international program that was created by LAPD.

10.   Democrats and civil rights groups cried foul, saying the department might be trying to dodge the most egregious claims from the torturous election.