Their visibility "certainly has an effect on public opinion," Gerald Lynch, a former prosecutor who teaches at Columbia Law School, said.

"The signals are there: let's go out and be a cop," said Gerald Lynch, president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

"By making himself a lightning rod and making a big deal of his aggressiveness, Rudy lost the courts' confidence," said Gerald Lynch, a former prosecutor now at Columbia Law School.

Gerald Lynch on the Second Circuit, or Goodwin Liu, if he's ever confirmed on the Ninth, will be possibilities.

"Even though self-reporting has all the problems, we just don't see any other way to conduct the study," said Gerald Lynch, president of John Jay College.

"It's not just defendants but the community that has rights today," said Gerald Lynch, a former federal prosecutor now teaching at Columbia Law School.

About 100 students briefly occupied North Hall, at 10th Avenue and 59th Street, where most of the college's classrooms are located, and later the foyer to the office of the school's president, Gerald Lynch.

Gerald Lynch, a criminal-law professor at Columbia Law School, added, "A cynic would say the whole point was to build a record for later on."

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"Police testimony is at the very heart of the criminal justice system," said Gerald Lynch, a professor at Columbia Law School.