Mr Gertz too promises more for the 80, 000 men under his command: more training, pay incentives and the expulsion of all officers who turn out, once the laborious process of checking their files is completed, to have criminal records.

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"The mechanical process of checking things was not as sophisticated as it should have been, " she told the Times.

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Diehr, in which the Supreme Court upheld a patent for curing synthetic rubber that covered the process of checking temperatures and pressures and adjusting them according to a set of specified parameters.

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