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...Lasky hurriedly grabbed his pistol and managed to collar one, John F. Peters, who protested that he was merely visiting a married girl friend in the building. Not impressed, Lasky frisked Peters and felt something that "could have been a knife." What Lasky actually found was an envelope containing burglar's tools-for possession of which Peters was duly convicted...
...guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures" now means that any search made without the authority of a warrant is "reasonable only if conducted as incident to a lawful arrest" based on probable cause-something Patrolman Lasky admittedly did not have until after his frisk produced not a weapon but burglar's tools...
...community leaders requested that all uniformed policemen be kept out of the area until the fever subsided, promising to do everything in their power to keep order. The police agreed, and the stratagem worked-for a while. Then a squad car squealed through the area in response to a burglar alarm, and the leaders' spell was broken; mayhem erupted for the second night. By midweek the police, now under the command of the department's chief troubleshooter, Captain James Holzman, were quick to disperse any sizable gathering. Miraculously, the reign of hate left only one Chicagoan...
...lower court was "too lenient" in merely ordering Providence's Grinnell Corp. to sell three subsidiaries after it was found guilty under the Sherman Act of monopolizing a segment of the burglar-alarm industry. In such cases, the court suggested, the remedy should include continuing Government surveillance of the companies to police compliance with the decree...
...crime detection. Moreover, no matter how far the Supreme Court goes, a large number of suspects will always be "gatemouths," compulsive confessors who need no encouragement to announce their guilt. "Human nature saves us," says one California prosecutor. "People talk anyway." In Seattle, for example, police insist that a burglar recently emerged from a skylight to be confronted by two waiting cops with drawn guns. Their first words: "You have the right to remain silent; you may consult an attorney before you make a statement; anything you say may be held against you." Astonished, the burglar admitted his guilt...