Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lifelong resident of New York City, I feel that a great deal that goes on here never reaches the headlines-mainly facts about the corruption that is rampant throughout the city. As you point out, there must be something terribly wrong when a policeman is afraid to make an arrest for fear of losing his job. I have two relations who are policemen, and I can assure you that this is not a myth: this is an everyday occurrence...
...only Rhadamés has been picked up by the police. But the lawyers are expected to petition Spanish courts for extradition warrants on which to arrest the others. And if extradition is granted, the four family members will be hauled back to Geneva for what should be one of the most fascinating trials in vears...
When a hyperimaginative CORE leader named Herbert Callender tried to arrest New York City's Mayor Robert F. Wagner a few weeks ago, he was operating on the correct assumption that everyone has a common-law right to perform a "citizen's arrest." As Callender saw it, His Honor was guilty of a felony-misappropriating public funds by allowing racial discrimination on city-sponsored construction projects. Callender was arrested for disorderly conduct and carted off to Bellevue Hospital for mental observation. Though he was soon released from the hospital (in time to face a court hearing this week...
Citizen's arrest goes back to medieval England, when the "hue and cry" raised by a criminal's victim obliged any bystander to join the chase and catch the felon. Forerunner of the Wild West posse, the hue and cry was then England's only reliable method of law enforcement. But ever since 1829, when Sir Robert Peel fathered London's bobbies, the existence of fulltime police forces has made citizen's arrest so rare and unnecessary that it now seems to bring more peril than protection...
...Plague on Policemen. The right is still honored in many countries, including Britain, France, Germany and Japan. With slight state variations, U.S. law holds that a citizen may arrest any person who has committed a felony in his presence or whom he knows to have committed a felony. But the citizen faces a disadvantage that does not plague a policeman, who may arrest anyone whom he reasonably believes to be a felon. If no felony has in fact been committed, the policeman can simply say, "Oops, sorry." In the same situation, a citizen is quite likely to be sued...