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September 2005
Keeping the Thin Blue Line on Straight and Narrow
Los Angeles Times (9/19/05)
As a law student at the University of California's volatile Berkeley campus in the 1970s, Merrick Bobb '71 was once stopped by an angry Oakland cop and accused of intentionally driving his car toward the officer.
Bobb said he felt helpless under the officer's accusation, which he strongly denied. He envisioned going to jail, his plans for a law degree destroyed. Then some Berkeley police officers approached and said they believed Bobb. They told him he was free to go.
"The discretion the police had stayed with me," Bobb said. "They can be absolutely the best thing in your life — or your worst nightmare."
Today, the 59-year-old Los Angeles lawyer is one of the nation's leading authorities on police conduct. And his collegiate brush with police was one reason he took such an interest in law enforcement reform...
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