Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldier of the cities is the cop, I his front line the American ghetto. Harlem, Watts, Roxbury, Hough, Hunters Point, the South Side, Dixie Hills, Bedford-Stuyvesant: these are the battlegrounds whose names are inscribed in rubble and resentment and fear of worse conflagrations to come. Already this year, serious disturbances have broken out in 211 cities and towns. Even when they are quiet, vast areas of the American metropolis today resemble combat zones, volatile, bitter and suspicious...
Nowhere is more being done in these respects than in Los Angeles, scene of the first cataclysmic riots of the '60s. No police chief is acting more vigorously or imaginatively to prevent new outbreaks than Los Angeles' Thomas Reddin, 52, who understands that the cop today must not only be a well-trained soldier but a "streetcorner sociologist." Says Reddin: "This is the year when the public will suddenly realize that the policeman has more to do with the state of our nation than any other man on the streets today...
...word cop means many things to many people, and its origin is not certain. One explanation is that it is the abbreviation for Constable of Police; another traces it to the verb copper?to arrest or inform against. * Apparently from "Mr. Charlie," the equivalent of honky or whitey. -In an experimental program pioneered by the Vera Institute of Justice, New York is now sending many Bowery drunks to an infirmary, where they are dried out, counseled, and assisted in finding jobs. In six months, only 150 of the 650 men treated have been arrested again...
...month promised local police forces major financial backing ($400 million over the next two years) for the first time in history. Even the Post Office has put its weight behind the policeman. Instead of celebrating Boy Scouts or blue jays, a recent 60 special-issue stamp showed a kindly cop-escorting a small boy, with three words in banner red: LAW AND ORDER...
...Cop and robber soon fall in love; but McQueen trusts no one, and to put Faye to the test he bitterly stages another heist. She counters with an ambush that leads to a surprise ending slightly less suspenseful than the one in the Hansel and Gretel affair...