Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never find a cop when you need one." The old saw is painfully true about New York City's cops on the beat, the problem being that there is too much beat and too few cops. In 1929, some 4,000 foot patrolmen guarded the parks and pounded the pavements of the city; today only 2,000 are making the rounds. Now the New York police have found a way to let one man cover the ground of five: the motor scooter. Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary has already checked out 575 cops on 80 Vespas and Lambrettas...
...zippy little vehicles provide all sorts of extra benefits. The putt-putting noise daunts would-be lawbreakers; the potential speed (60 m.p.h.) and mobility enable wheezy cops to outrun juvenile delinquents, mount sidewalks or even bounce up shallow steps to bypass traffic. For surprise, two-scooter teams patrol their beats in ever-changing patterns; for instant contact, each man carries a portable two-way radio. Not long ago, a scooter cop and a prowl-car team simultaneously got word of a burglary; riding on sidewalks, the scooter man beat the car by seven minutes and nabbed the burglar...
...Third World War is absolutely inevitable. By so believing, they do believe that we shall take the side of the United States as the side of good as against the side of evil. It's a sort of a good and evil, a sort of a "robbers and cops" game--the cop being America and the robbers being 'Russia or China if you wish...
...indeed, if he ever gets caught. To police a city of 2,500,000 residents and 500,000 transients, Chief Papa has only 2,600 men working in three shifts -one cop per 3,450 civilians, or one-sixth the needed force. Papa's men are lucky to get 15 prowl cars on the streets at any one time. Half of the cars are wheezy World War II Jeeps without radios. Manila has only about 24 police call boxes; and even if the city had street pay telephones, which it has not, Papa says that his $80-a-month...
...they are anthropologists or psychologists or sociologists they look to the military and the draft as one last chance of saving drop-outs, cop-outs and freak-outs; as a way of up-setting the habits and responses of slum life. They want some form of national service, involving as many people as possible...