Word: copping
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...saying that being a street cop is easy. You have to be a social worker one day and gear up for a riot the next. You are supposed to be winsome and unruffled as you ask that drunk to stop peeing on the sidewalk. The pay is bad, and, oh, yeah, you could get killed every...
...things," says Samuel Walker of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, author of Police Accountability. He wrote a paper suggesting that the best way to analyze the traffic-stop activity of particular officers is to measure it against the work of other officers pulling comparable shifts. Then, presumably, those cops who disproportionately stop blacks or Latinos (or whites, for that matter) could be identified. Walker's approach seems sound, but almost no cities collect traffic-stop data on a cop-by-cop basis...
...sometimes be justified? That depends on your definition, which requires a short jaunt into the history of the term. Most criminologists credit former FBI chief of research Howard Teten with inventing (or at least popularizing) the idea of "profiling." In the late 1950s, Teten was a rare combination of cop and scholar. He worked crime scenes for the San Leandro, Calif., police and took classes in psychology at Berkeley. Now 68, Teten says most departments back then gathered evidence at crime scenes only to find direct clues about a criminal--a dropped matchbox, for instance. But Teten looked...
...News sent me off to bed with the urgent information that Washington D.C. police, scouring Rock Creek Park, have found an old license plate. A few days ago, surrounded by camera crews swarming through the underbrush, a cop found a dog bone...
...before the Goteborg summit, a team of Swedish police began shadowing radical cells in Denmark that were mobilizing for Goteborg. "We made extensive effort to contact the AFA people who were the ringleaders," says an official. After a bus carrying a group of suspicious Danes entered Sweden, a single cop went undercover to monitor their moves. "He trailed behind them, watched them organize at a hotel and then take to the streets to execute their plan the same day," says Landahl. The Swedes say AFA-linked radicals subsequently formed the bulk of the black-masked contingent that began pelting police...