Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police force in the world." Having spent three nights on Michigan Avenue observing the occupation of "Prague West," I find absurd Daley's charge that news coverage of the conflict was one-sided. King Richard was fortunate that the TV cameras could not see everything. One night, a cop overtook a young girl fleeing from tear gas. Grabbing her by the hair, he hit her across the face with his nightstick, ripped off her blouse, ripped off her bra. After clubbing her over the head a few more times, the cop left her-half-naked, bleeding and unconscious...
...campaign kickoff, the contrast between Republican calm and Democratic storm was obvious. About the only reminder of the previous week's violence was the elaborate, often sarcastic courtesy of the police toward reporters. When a TIME reporter asked if he could cross a police barricade, a cop gave a fairly typical answer: "Of course, sir. Anything you want, sir. We're here to serve...
...Psychologists warn us that prejudice is learned," Dixon says. "Put a man in the central Negro area and after he's been called names and spit at, he'll be prejudiced." A City University of New York sociologist, Arthur Neiderhoifer, agrees that the very nature of a cop's duties tends to "transform him into an authoritarian agent of control." Neiderhoffer, a New York policeman for more than 20 years, writes in his book, Behind the Shield: "The hostility and fear that almost palpably press against a policeman in lower-class areas aggravate his impulse...
Whatever the cause of the debacle, further research is plainly needed to determine what goes into the making of a good, dependable cop tolerant of the rights of others. A Justice Department-financed study that may be the most far-reaching investigation of the topic so far is due to be released later this month. Ironically enough, the subjects for the study, which involved two years of intensive psychological testing, were 2,000 Chicago policemen...
Zone 13 is the police designation for a jagged area of St. Petersburg, Fla., that has been gerrymandered to include most of the city's Negro districts. No white cop had ever been assigned to Zone 13, and none of the Negroes covering that beat ever patrolled the city's white sections. Charging that the police department was assigning them by race, twelve of St. Petersburg's 14 Negro officers sued the city two years ago under the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment...