Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policemen to protect free speech. More important, a policeman who can ignore abuse is not only a good law officer, not only a moral victor, but a living symbol of a free society strong and calm enough to withstand any challenge. But this takes the kind of police and civilian leaders who respect the Constitution-and set the right tone for cops on the front line. Mayor Richard Daley hardly helped with his "shoot to kill" order after Chicago's Negro riots last April, or by implying before the Democratic Convention that protesters were hoodlums or Communists...
Others have even more radical ideas. University of Chicago Sociologist Jerome Skolnick argues that the rigid military model for police is out of date, suggests that civilian clothes with mere badges would bring policemen closer to their fellow citizens. According to Arnold Sagalyn, formerly a top Treasury Department lawman, police should quit being lonely adversaries and help tackle urban problems-thus preventing a good many crimes that now plague police. Berkeley Psychiatrist Bernard Diamond argues that police forces should also stop recruiting primarily tough men who can "shoot it out." As he sees it, the right model is a potential...
...Soviet navy. Russian ships shadow every NATO maneuver, break into allied formations, and show the red flag in the world's most sensitive trouble spots. Last week the Pentagon received reassurance of sorts. According to the 1968-69 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships, the longtime civilian authority on all the world's navies, "Soviet maritime strategy is defensive or containing rather than provoking or aggressive...
...battle's ironies is that Daley himself has done as much as anyone else to smear his own police department. At the confrontation in front of the Conrad Hilton, only a few dozen cops broke ranks to crack the head of any civilian they could lay a club on. But Daley defends those who violated discipline. In doing so, he damns the entire department...
...Including those who are acknowledged to be conscientious objectors but refuse to do the two years of alternate civilian work that is required of them...