Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Service Center, preschoolers learned to dive for the floor in "shooting drills,'' then stay there until their teachers sounded the all clear. By 1994 there were three or more killings each month on the streets outside. Standing now where the unthinkable used to be the unremarkable, police lieutenant Edwin Compass III looks around with a shudder. "I'd bet it was the most dangerous block...
...good thing about monuments is they commemorate the past. Last year the city inaugurated a Community Oriented Policing Squad (COPS), now headed by Compass, a name so foursquare no novelist would dare invent it. With secondhand furniture and federal money, police set up round-the-clock substations in vacant apartments at three of the city's most deadly projects. The 45 cops assigned to them work foot patrol, get to know the law-abiding residents and sweep out the street dealers. They also help pick up trash, combat graffiti and round up kids who play hooky...
...extent that is true, police have had to pull themselves in two disparate directions--tougher and softer, as the COPS program in New Orleans illustrates. Tougher means more aggressive intervention. "If we see somebody we don't know, we ask them what they're doing there," says Compass. "If the story doesn't check out, we arrest them for trespassing. Now we don't see as many drug dealers around here." But at the same time, it has meant more neighborhood-friendly tactics, the foot patrolling and problem solving that form the loosely defined strategy called community policing...
...deciding it owed more to Rube Goldberg than Orville Wright, refused to approve his planned transatlantic flight. Corrigan agreed to return to California--but once in the air, headed east. Touching down in Ireland 28 hours later, Corrigan, straight-faced but twinkle-eyed, attributed his detour to a faulty compass. This combination of chutzpah and heroism propelled him to international celebrity, leading to a Hollywood biopic (he played himself) and a lifetime of personal appearances...
...even if we were to have some political differences of opinion, that wouldn't preclude us from socializing with the man. Remember the principle of principles: diplomacy. When diplomacy fails, there's always more diplomacy. We must not let the nation be guided by any sort of moral compass, which of course is what Giuliani invoked, as if we were about to embark on another Crusade...