Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Awful Changes." McCaffrey indeed patrolled his parish like a cop on the beat. He upbraided the vendors of filthy books, copied down objectionable movie billboards, sent his spotters ("often bums who came to me looking for a job") into the old burlesque houses. His ringing voice assailed vice at hearings held by the New York City Commissioner of Licenses as well as from the pulpit of his red brick church. He helped prod New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia into closing down the strip joints and driving their operators out of town. For his campaign against "coddlers...
Overwrought Message. The Algiers Motel shooting occurred at the height of the rioting of July on Detroit's central thoroughfare. Police had been subjected to sniper firing, and one cop had already been killed. Consequently, nerves were strained when an overwrought National Guardsman sent word of shots being fired from the area of the motel with its largely Negro clientele. The police dispatcher relayed the message: "Army under heavy fire." Actually, only a few shots had been heard, and Negro witnesses later claimed that these had come from a blank-cartridge pistol; no gun of any kind was ever...
...young white prostitutes. Senak, said a witness, ripped the clothes off one with the barrel of his shotgun and ordered the other to undress before the officers. He demanded to know why they preferred Negroes as clients. "What's wrong with us, you nigger lovers?" Another cop then chimed in: "We're going to fill up the Detroit River with all you pimps and whores...
...were, their day in court. But he leaves no doubt as to where his own sympathies lie. The Negro youths, he asserts, were "executed" not for being snipers but for "being considered punks, for making out with white girls, for being in some vague way killers of a white cop, for running riot-for being black young men and part of the black rage of the time...
...Cohn's view McCarthy was more sinned against than sinning. "It's grisly," McCarthy whimpers to Cohn in one passage. "They're yelling at the cop who got the goods on the murderer. They don't give a damn about the murder-they only want to know how the cop got the proof." Like McCarthy, Roy Cohn thinks that his boss had "the goods," and on that excuse, grandly dispenses with any debate concerning such matters as due process and character assassination. That is the grisliest fact...