Word: brostron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken even the first step. Few have recognized that in the turbid inner cities more than efficiency is needed, that the cop must indeed be a man of many parts. Among the few: New York's Howard Leary, Washington's Patrick Murphy, Atlanta's Herbert Jenkins, St. Louis' Curtis Brostron. And, of course, Tom Reddin...
...most expensive way of deploying policemen, but in the long run it could very well turn out to be the least expensive." Other cities that had cut back on foot patrolmen are also discovering new virtues in old ways. "When I was walking a beat," remembers St. Louis' Chief Brostron, "the policeman knew the good people and the bad ones, the joints and the gambling dens. The officer in the car today doesn't have that contact." Still, with the huge expenses of foot patrol, no chief can possibly plan to abandon the economies or the speed of the prowl...
...Louis' Curtis Brostron, 63, has probably involved his department more intimately with the ghetto than any other force. The city was singled out for special praise by the President's riot commission. Storefront offices in the slums are not so much police stations as referral stations-each staffed by a cop, a sanitation man and a member of the state employment service-for a whole spectrum of social problems, from health to jobs. Police are given partial credit for keeping St. Louis relatively quiet. Other problems remain unsolved. St. Louis has a rising crime rate...
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