Word: copping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every year, according to the U.S. Justice Department, the Philadelphia police shoot an average of 75 people, which contributes heavily to the force's image as one of the toughest in the nation. This reputation is a source of pride to Mayor Frank Rizzo, who was a cop for 28 years. On a visit to Italy in 1977, he declared that the best way to deal with criminals is "spacco il capo," which can be loosely translated as "break heads...
...paradise on earth, a promised land for the collegian, a magnet for Wellesley women. But a day will come when you will want to leave the Square. After all, it is only six streets wide and three deep, and if you don't want to feel like a cop walking a beat, you can only stroll for a half hour...
...into Claman's office and bummed a cigarette; if nothing else came of the interview, she would be one smoke to the good. She remembers that Claman "told me to pretend that I got busted for pickpocketing and that I didn't do it and I was telling the cop about it. So I just let loose with some four-letter words, and I think that...
...confusing setto, Knight allegedly stung the cop with a barehand chop. Tossed into jail, Knight was released in time to see his team the gold against Puerto Rico, 113-94. His trial on an aggravated assault charge was put over until next month...
...long time, domestic violence did not get much attention from social scientists. If there was any real expert on this almost taboo subject, it was the cop on the beat, who often found himself intervening in family scraps, much to his chagrin: more policemen get killed or wounded while trying to settle such disputes than in any other line of duty. But lately social scientists like Straus, who heads the University of New Hampshire's Family Violence Research Program, have been taking a closer look at the subject. What they are finding is grim...