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Show 4GaiffyJJy5 Lakeside m? Lakes ina fla.-- Provo police chief puts his profiling skills to the test 'Placing ihe knife on Giaway a week the crime chows ihe killer) can After honing FBI techniques, officer brings talent to Utah hrfre project A PROVO the fuiure. Cooper ai. first dung he does afier ihe murder? Goes la ihe bathroom, Wh? liecause hes gi MkhJ on him. Is that ihe action of an insane man? No. thats ihe mind of a guilty man, he rocimg hack in a chair wuh his hands 1 hoped behind his balding head. Ii has hcen 19 jears smee Cooper began his Gw enforcement career in Provo, home 10 Brigham Voung Cmsersiiy where he earned a masters degree in - On a hoi, b!uehy in Login, a killer ltm a window ai the kneeling figure inudc, lie mh a cup of juutf on the ground. vo.U mio ihe Mor-m- n veminjry building and uK the re I'gion it a, her 41 time. UUhJ cplauerc induaic the tiiiim wa praying, w-ing- e s4. Inunny? lv2. During the nexl four years. irul date are AvbeduleJ and wuulcJ a Im Doinct Judge Gordon Low (struggles 01 er whether ihe iuvpeet i menially cornpe tern to stand tnaL Inter 4;.caMld lrow Police Chief Gregory Cooper. A year laier. Cooper left Provo for Deha, Ciah, 10 become chief of police, lie lumped next 10 job in Seaulc and California as an agent uiih ihe federal flureau of Investigation, Then, in 1990, he landed in Quantico, Va.. where a ing" day sent from police across ihe country on ihe chance ihe I Bl can find new what he was doing and had no motive slab Conrad llarward. leads. Nonsense, Cooper sas. "The hrhav- jor reflects what his thought processes were, lie watched his victim beforehand, he carried ihe knife inside, he washed up afier he was done." The technique gauges the age, race, Lately our idea is 10 start leaching habits and personality of criminal by ihee principles 10 ihe people who can evaluating crime scenes and sieiims, esuse them," sas Cooper. "There is no pecially ihe bizarre brutalities inflicted panacea, we have 10 use all ihe arrows in during and after ihe crime. ihe quiver, including forensics. rcwtt. Old-itmdetectives had another word ness accounts, confessions and circumfor profiling: voodoo. stantial evidence, Behavioral science is a way 10 link the various aspects logeth- Pul even in the early I9K0, FBI procr. filers were cracking once unsolvablc crimes. Most Gw enforcement officials, While he doesn't review that many some grudgingly, have since acknowl-edge- d cases. Cooper has conunucJ 10 profile as the success of ihe gumshoe a consultant. shrinks. In ihe Logan slabbing. Cooper helped Two years ago. Cooper traded his convince Cavhe County Auomey Scon FBI badge for a chiefs desk in Provo, Wyatt that diagnosed schizophrenic Mireluming 10 Utah "10 retire.' he jokes. chael Wa ne Phillips could be convicted At Quamico. detectives in the behavioralof murder, despite defense -science unit review up 10 50 cases a contentions that Phillips did not know Utah unit members have mixed feelings after working near Gatekeeper Scholarships draw Utahns who help make police departments diverse AftVXsiSwj lifefor thcmschcs.n -Sgt. 1st Class Prs A Utah National Guard unit SharM Rotriwell, has returned from service in the Utah National Guard war apinst illegal immigration. Invited 10 complete their two-weLast summer, more than a annual training require- dozen people died of heat exment by doing roadwork in a haustion making the border rugged area dividing Mexico This year, dozens more crossing. from San Diego County, the 126 have died from exposure, cold men and women of the I16ih and run over. being Engineering Company witnessed Attorney General Janet Redesperate border crossings. no. in Utah on Monday for a Operation Otay '97 was part crime summit, has been critiof the war on drugs and cized for Gatekeeper. On one effort known as Ophand, it has closed the main fiseration Gatekeeper. sure between Mexico and San Sgt. 1st Gass Shane Rothwcll Diego. But clamping down in came home to Utah County one spot has squeezed the probwith mixed feelings. lem eastward into rugged and It isnt right for people to dangerous mountains. come into the United States illeCritics also object to the mix gally, he said. Still, closing the of military interdiction against border is kind of sad. These drugs and suppression of illegal people are just trying to make a immigration. better life for themselves." In May, Marines patrolling In broad daylight, men and women tried to cross into the near Redford, Texas, shot to ek Tw AMOcMtf Pm SALT LAKE CITY - Ever since Manuel Lscoto was a boy in Palm Springs, Calif., he wanted to be a police officer. He hoped to make something of his life, ec en w hen many of his Latino fnends turned to drugs. A scholarship program targeting Utah's minorities career made his possible. Escoto is now a Wellington police officer in the central Utah force. city's wanted to set an example." "I said the officer. "I have been dont think I able to make it without the border-interdicti- four-memb- er The New Horizons POST Scholarship program each year on United States across Otay Mountain, a rugged wilderness area, in plain sight of the Border Patrol and National Guard. Some of the Guard troops vid- pays for five recipients to attend Utah's Peace Officers Standards and Training program, the states police academy. Escoto was one of the lucky few. He competed against 300 hopefuls. But this year, four scholarships are still available. Those interested in applying may call We need cultural diversity in our police departments, said Salt Lake City police Lt. Phil Kirk, who is Latino. "Were making some strides, but we certainly haven't reached the point where we have a true representation of the community. Of Utahs more than 1.9 million people, 6.1 percent are Latino, 2.4 percent are Asian or Pacific Islander, 1.4 percent are American Indian or Alaskan Native, and 0.7 percent are African American, according to 1994 census figures from the Governors Office of Planning and Budget. Salt Lake City Police Department boasts the highest percentage of minority officers. In fact, the departments chief, Ruben Ortega, is Latino. And assistant chief, Shirley Whitworth, is one female offiof the highest-ranke- d cers of any metropolitan police department in the nation. eotaped people climbing the fence that stretches 14 miles from the coast to Otay Mesa. death an goatherd, outraging residents and prompting an investigation. In San Diego, Border Patrol officers working the Imperial Beach sector have drawn fire from unseen assailants. Some of the unions have called for pulling back, or at least being t Phillips eventually pleaded guilty e murder and was sentenced last month 10 a term of live jears 10 Me in prison. These das. Cooper sas hes thrilled to be back in Provo, where nomnous venal killer Ted BunJy claimed a victim just before Cooper began school at BYU. first-degre- "That kind of offender is a wolf in sheeps clothing, its not the ghoul run- mng around." he says. "These are the first-degr- These people arcjust tiying to malx a better 10 10 e people who live in our neighborhoods." . t TmmuiFMiVouRsmoRT'im. 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