Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CROOK. Four movie-struck factory workers cast themselves as Robin Hoods and quit their jobs to play a crimefilled scenario in the streets of Paris. The fun and games end when a real cop tries to arrest them. Four French unknowns turn in poignant performances under the sensitive direction of Claude Lelouch (A Man and A Woman...
Chief William H. Parker was a crusty law-enforcement fundamentalist who spent 16 years building the Los Angeles Police Department into one of the best known, best paid and least corrupt in the U.S. There was a price though: a chilly distance between the cops and the slum Negroes that helped to start the 1965 Watts riots. When Parker died at 64 last July, Los Angeles set out to find a successor skilled in "community relations"-the art of enlisting citizens to help prevent crime, rather than relying on repression after it happens. Last week the city found...
Pecking Order. As a result, the L.A. cops patrol almost entirely in cars rather than pounding a beat on foot, and lose touch with people in the process. Hurtling to one crime call after another, police sometimes seem to view Negroes and Mexicans (24% of the populace) through the eyes of an occupation army. Only 4% of the force are Negroes, compared with 13.5% of the population. By comparison, of New York City's regular, transit and housing police, 9% are Negroes, v. 15% of the population. The minorities seem sometimes in the grip of an anti-cop mystique...
...weight is all Crimson. Ron Wilson and Ajootian should cop first and second and a sweep is conceivable...
...CROOK. Four movie-struck factory workers cast themselves as Robin Hoods and quit their jobs to play a crime-filled scenario in the streets of Paris. The fun and games end when a real cop tries to arrest them. Four French unknowns turn in poignant performances under the sensitive direction of Claude Lelouche (A Man and A Woman...