Word: cochrane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many, if not most, Cambridge policemen are Cambridge residents, and are content with the opportunities provided by the department. They are reluctant to leave the department, and few in fact do. As we dwelled on this point, I suddenly realized that Cochran was trying to recruit me. "Have you ever considered police work?" he asked, half jokingly, but three-quarters seriously. He had hit on an interesting, and vital point. "Can you imagine the impact if, instead of going into the Peace Corps or VISTA, Harvard graduates put in two years in a patrol car. Or they could circumvent civil...
...Most police aren't educated in social psychology," Cochran, one of the 40 now attending Northeastern, said. "But police are becoming more educated overall. It used to be that policemen learned by experience only, and they did a beautiful job. But now there are more well trained officers, and there is more competition within the department to excel. Education can have an enormous effect as far as changing viewpoints is concerned...
Just as the conversation had turned to University Hall, so did it drift to drug use. "Everywhere drugs are a problem," Cochran began. "Our main concern here is not so much the college kids as the outsiders who are selling hard drugs to high school kids and some that are even younger. These kids have no idea what they are taking; at least at the colleges, there are juniors and seniors who know what these drugs will do to you, and can tell freshmen about dosages and effects before they start experimenting...
...high school users. The thrust of the raids is to stifle the flow of impure and addictive drugs- especially heroin- to small children. The number of heroin addicts of high school age and under has risen rapidly during the past year and a half throughout the country, and as Cochran put it, "It's a sad situation when eight- and ten-year-olds are dying of overdoses of heroin. And it is not hard to imagine what lengths these kids that are addicted will...
...thought it was funny when, after I had evaded any discussion of the morality of drug use, Cochran looked at me with perfect frankness and asked. "Well, what do you know about drugs at Harvard." "Not much." I replied, and went on to the next point...