Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Police Commissioner Howard Leary, 55, a career cop with a law degree who rose to head Philadelphia's police force before being asked to New York by Lindsay. Leary has displayed not only the qualities of an efficient administrator but also a badly needed talent for improving police relations with Negroes and Puerto Ricans. » Corporation Counsel J. Lee Rankin, 59, a Nebraskan who served as U.S. Solicitor General in the Eisenhower Administration and later as chief counsel of the Warren commission. » Budget Director Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, 43, holder of a Harvard master's degree...
...civilian-dominated police review board, set up last summer to hear and sift charges of police malfeasance or brutality. Most top politicians of both parties campaigned for the board. The police bitterly opposed it, and the majority (63%) of voters agreed that the board would inhibit the cop on the beat and send the crime rate soaring. The board was summarily killed...
...connection. Reporter Koethe was a beer-drinking bully who liked to hang out with thugs; he had been strangled, not "karate chopped," and police suggested that homosexuality may have been a motive. Hunter was shot accidentally by an exhibitionistic detective he had known closely for years while the cop was clowning foolishly with a revolver in the station pressroom. As for Tom Howard, according to others who were there, he was not even at Ruby's apartment that night...
...Orbiting at altitudes of 800 ft. to 1,500 ft., a trooper in a Piper Cub can clock cars whizzing by below. If his stop watch says a car has raced over the quarter-mile stretch too fast (less than 12.8 sec. in a 70-m.p.h. zone), the flying cop radios a cruiser on the ground to make the arrest. All of which goes a long way toward explaining why the highway patrol last year caught a record 3,500 speeders...
...dying from their own air bombs or artillery fire, says Marshall, are also "dependable bell ringers." Such incidents occurred more often in previous wars, but reporters never made so much of them. Now, "if one correspondent could compile a large enough file of writings about these accidents, he might cop the Pulitzer Prize...