Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people, investigated the crime scene themselves or called a private security guard before summoning police. The survey also cited "hesitancy to take personal responsibility and indecision concerning the need for police assistance." Once the police were called, it took an average of only 2 min. 50 sec. for a car to be dispatched, and 5 min. 34 sec. for it to arrive at the scene. If crimes were reported in 1 min. instead of 5 min., the L.E.A.A. study added, in one of those statistical computations that always inspire wonder, the probability of an arrest would increase...
Around the corner from the ambush site, the occupants of three blue-and-white police cars surveyed the passing traffic. Two blocks away, in the opposite direction, uniformed border police, pressed into special service, manned a roadblock and checked every tenth car or so. They concentrated on large vehicles, whose drivers were made to show identification while the trunk was searched. Every few hundred yards more police, more roadblocks, more searches extended the tight security blanket over the entire Trionfale district...
...speak in German , ''Achtung! Achtung!'' Another bystander was waved off by a terrorist who spoke with what sounded like heavily accented Italian. An additional element was the chilling professional precision exhibited by one of the killers. One bodyguard had managed to get out of the car and fire three shots at the terrorists-yet one of the killers was cool enough to take two to three seconds for careful aim before shooting the bodyguard in the center of his forehead...
...garish neon strip with honky-tonks and liquor outlets on the Arkansas side facing fast-food and, religious book stores on the dry Texas side. The region's wooded terrain makes it an appealing hiding place for the so-called Dixie Mafia, a loosely confederated band of car thieves, dope runners, hijackers and assorted thugs who prey on towns across the South...
Shortly after Sabo won renomination in the May 1976 primary, he discovered a black box under the fender of his patrol car. It turned out to be a sophisticated $2,800 radio transmitter, a tracking device. That night, as Sabo kept watch, a shadowy figure crept up to the patrol car. When the interloper reached under the fender. Sabo jumped out and arrested one Gary Morgan, an OCI investigator and the man Cooksey had utilized for pre-election snooping into Sabo's background...