Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circles for the methods that he pioneered. His stiff rules of conduct are now standardized as a code of ethics for police across the country. His department was the first to use blood, fiber and soil analysis in detection (1907); the first to use the lie detector (a Berkeley cop collaborated in inventing the polygraph in 1921); it was an early developer of a fingerprint classification system (1924) and the first to use radio-equipped squad cars...
...gets the sort of man he wants, the chief does not waste him. "It's ridiculous to spend money on an above-average person," says he, "and then admit that he cannot do every phase of police work." When a crime is committed in Berkeley, the beat cop directs all phases of investigation. Backup detectives offer assistance and expertise, but the case is the patrolman's responsibility all the way through the trial. They do the job so well that Judge
...Broadway beat said that on any given day, the odds were 9 to 5 he would be killed. But when the shots were fired, they were off target; the knives and brickbats missed; the flung cue balls were wide of the mark. Johnny Broderick, "the world's toughest cop," was destined to die in bed-which he did last week of a heart attack on his 72nd birthday...
Died. John Joseph Broderick, 72, the toughest cop on Broadway in the turbulent 1930s; of a heart attack; in Middletown...
Negrón, it turned out, was no hero in his Puerto Rican-Negro neighborhood where the "cop" is traditionally the enemy. His neighbors refused to speak to him; people stood outside his store muttering "Cop lover" or "Nigger hater," and customers no longer came to him. "Even people I helped, even people I lent money to pay the rent," he said, "they let me down." Negrón had been forced to sell his store for $400, even though he bought it for $5,000. He was left almost penniless, and his wife...