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...strong scent of fresh hope emerging from the article on Psychologist Morton Bard's love affair with New York's 30th Police Precinct Family Crisis Intervention Unit [March 23] brought tears to eyes that, accustomed to mirages, overreacted when a real oasis appeared...
...another piece, "Romeo and Julie?." Goodby makes up a passage similar to a Shakespearean sonnet and proceeds to give 27 annotated comments on 17 lines of verse. lambasting Shakespeare as well as the Bard's life long devotees. The note on "She [Juliet] speaks, yet she says nothing" is "'This line, more than any other, best exemplifies the Shakespearean style.'-Kittridge...
...police mystique," Bard has written, "places its highest value on a masculinity usually defined by toughness, imperviousness to feelings, and a tight-lipped readiness to neutralize conflict by a quick draw in the middle of Main Street." Until very recently, getting into a gun fight was the fastest way for a New York patrolman to win promotion. Family crisis intervention, in contrast, has been largely unrewarded...
...Bard's report on the F.C.I.U., written for the Justice Department, will be distributed this month to law-enforcement and community health agencies all over the country. The effect may be far-reaching, since Bard has done nothing less than revise the role of the cop. He is challenging society's definition of the policeman as an intractable enemy, concerned mainly with making arrests when ordinary sinners overstep the stern line drawn by the law. The 30th Precinct's F.C.I.U. has been recommended by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders as an effective and exemplary instrument...
...success, Morton Bard remains an activist busy spreading the gospel. On another grant, he is repeating his program in the New York Housing Authority Police Department, an independent force of 1,400, with responsibility for the 600,000 residents of Manhattan's 150 public-housing developments...