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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...
Regan stopped to introduce me to Detective George Powers, a graduate of Boston University who taught in Boston schools for two years before joining the department in 1966, and he was soon excusing himself to attend a meeting. Along with Pat Cochran, a 12-year veteran of the force. Powers forms the staff of the Training and Planning Bureau...
...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...
...blacks marched through the classrooms one day chanting, "Stop the cops." After the school threatened four of the demonstrators with discipline, white students joined in a one-day boycott of their classes. "People talk about the need for sensitivity sessions for police," says Yale Law Student J. Otis Cochran, who heads the National Black American Law Students Association. "Hell, law faculties need sensitivity sessions...