Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will must be dealt with firmly. The tyranny of a minority is far more obnoxious than the tyranny of a majority. And at present, the majority clearly feels that law and order must somehow be reasserted. But it would be tragic if in the process the nation were to allow its legitimate fears to be exploited, its understandable concern to be exaggerated. The balancing of law and order against freedom is at the very heart of civilization's work. That work must be done by the leaders of the U.S. with a measure of magnanimity, a major effort...
NOTHING is tougher than being a policeman in a free society. For one thing, the U.S. Constitution guarantees as much individual liberty as public safety will allow. To uphold that elusive ideal, the policeman is supposed to mediate family disputes that would tax a Supreme Court Justice, soothe angry ghetto Negroes despite his scant knowledge of psychology, enforce hundreds of petty laws without discrimination, and use only necessary force to bring violators before the courts. The job demands extraordinary skill, restraint and character-qualities not usually understood by either cop-hating leftists, who sound as if they want to exterminate...
...police frustration would vanish overnight if salaries rose by 50%-to what many union plumbers make. Police brains would sharpen immensely if every department in the country stopped requiring even the best-educated rookies to start out as foot patrolmen. Instead, the police ought to ease archaic seniority and allow college graduates to start as management trainees. Equally important, police duties should be drastically reduced and refined. Certainly, police should not be responsible for carting drunks to jail-one-third of all arrests. A good case could be made for putting traffic control in the hands of some other body...
...background of the situation has become unpleasantly familiar to New Yorkers. The city's board of education last year set up a pilot project in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section to test school decentralization, which would allow "the community"-the parents themselves and the neighborhood leaders-to run the schools. Only that way, supporters of the scheme claim, will ghetto children get sympathetic teachers with a more flexible approach to their special needs. Most professional, unionized teachers deeply distrust the idea. And when the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing committee asked for the transfer of 13 teachers that it considered...
...LAST MONDAYS City Council meeting, Councilor Daniel J. Hayes introduced an amendment to the City's zoning ordinances designed to allow a developer to build an apartment house-office building complex next to the proposed site of the Kennedy Library. This compromise amendment--worked out in a meeting between the city manager, the developer, and city planners--offers the best basis for ending a zoning battle raging since last...