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...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...
...very psychological effect." Cochran said. "I don't think that the average policeman in the street will walk without a gun. And anyway, most officers have shot their weapon only in practice." I was wondering if either he or Powers foresaw the day when policemen in Cambridge, or anywhere in America, would no longer carry guns. Obviously, it is not likely that that day will ever come. But what changes are forthcoming in police departments within the next decade...
Respect for police authority- and policemen- is at a low ebb among the young people in Cambridge, not unlike most communities throughout the country. Cochran conjectured that participation in demonstrations and disregard for the police is "fashionable." "Too many people think that because a man puts on a uniform, he doesn't have a personality or feelings." he said...
...walked out of the station after a tour of the building and the first floor jail, I could not help but wonder how representative of American policemen Powers and Cochran are. Obviously, they are both in the Training and Planning Bureau- of which community service is a sub- unit- because they are articulate, they recognize the shortcomings of police departments as they are today, and they want to improve the lot of these same departments. I think probably that they are fairly typical of Cambridge policemen, but I am hesitant to enlarge this generalization to police in cities like Chicago...