Word: asses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Louis's claim: I and my co-author, George Kelling, "propose that police officers return to the good old pre-Warren Court days, when chasing out the 'undesirables' meant using the old nightstick to keep the neighborhood under control" and that Kelling and I advise police officers to "kick ass." [Crimson, Oct. 4]. False. In our article [Atlantic Monthly, March, 1982], we do not urge anyone to kick anybody anywhere; we instead quote a Chicago police officer who described how he dealt with juvenile gangs in a public housing project...
Editor's Note: Errol T. Louis's article When the Tough Get Going (10/4/83) quotes the phrase "kick ass" not from James Q. Wilson's writings but from the lecture delivered by Wilson and George L. Kelling to the Command Staff of the New York City Police Department...
...Louis's assertion notwithstanding, I did not sum up my advice in one phrase ("kick ass") nor did the audience remain "stonily silent." In fact, the session was characterized by animated discussion and strong disagreement among some members of the police audience, the panel on which I served, members of the general audience, and myself. It is likely that many of us who were there did not then agree on the focus of the debate. It is even less likely that we would reach such a consensus...
...Kicking Ass in New York...
Kelling and Wilson should be subpoenaed by the congressional subcommittee on police brutality to determine how many times they have encouraged policemen to "kick ass." The personal grief, community anger and decreased respect for the law that follow each killing is the end result of actions set in motion partly by such anti-crime "experts...