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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Color of Law." In the Philadelphia triple killing, the state of Mississippi refused to bring murder charges against 18 suspects, including Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price and Philadelphia Cop Richard Willis. Because murder is not a federal offense except when it occurs on U.S.-owned property, Government attorneys prosecuted the 18 on federal charges growing out of an 1870 law. The Government accusations were based on two parts of the law. Section 241 makes it a crime punishable by ten years in prison and a $5,000 fine for "two or more persons to conspire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Toward Outlawing Murder | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...Capitol Police Department, charged with protecting the House and Senate buildings, boasts some of the world's best-educated cops-and some of the least efficient. More than half of the 248-man force consists of meagerly trained, patronage-appointed college students whose ambitions seldom em brace advancement in the gendarmerie (the annual turnover is 82%). At any rate, there was not a cop in sight last week when a Capitol janitor stabbed and robbed Republican James C. Cleveland of New Hampshire late at night in his office. Inevitably, the incident revived memories of the day in 1954 when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capitol: Robber in the House | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

Turning from the gilded window, I took my wonder to a wise old cop I know. He used to work in Boston but he's been a University policeman for years. "Has there really been a change," I asked him. "Or do I just imagine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '...Meminisse Iuvabit' | 3/28/1966 | See Source »

Dean Martin can sure liven up a picture. In Kiss Me, Stupid--Billy Wilder's long awaited Armageddon--a cop walked up to Martin, who said, "Haven't you found that Sinatra...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: The Silencers | 3/23/1966 | See Source »

...reason for the outcry was ethnic. Negroes, Puerto Ricans and other minority groups generally approved of Garelik's promotion, though as the first Jew in memory to become chief inspector, he lacked the Hibernian seal of approval from the top-cop echelon. Another related controversy concerned the John Birch Society. At his first press conference, Leary said that policemen could be Birchers if membership did not conflict with their duties. This horrified the liberal Lindsay, whereupon Leary proclaimed that he was "repelled and nauseated" by Birch dogma and would forbid police membership in the society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: No Honeymoon | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

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