Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Harlemites are convinced that the cops turn their backs on such rackets for a price. And this conviction vastly complicates the problem of policing Harlem. What happened last week, said the Rev. Richard A. Hildebrand, head of New York's N.A.A.C.P. chapter, was "the explosion of a total...
One of the major demands made by Negro leaders last week was for more Negro cops in Harlem-the ratio is 1 Negro policeman to 6 white. Ironically, the proportion of Negroes was once much higher, but civil rights leaders complained that if white police could patrol Harlem, Negro police...
Unbreakable Cycle. The cops and the cloudy issue of "police brutality" were last week's headline material, but Harlem's problems go much deeper. "The most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose," wrote James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time, and...
During the 13 months of his exile, Tshombe kept in close touch with his tough Katanga cops, paying those in Angola regularly and the boys in the bush when he could. It was well that he did, for he needs them now to stiffen the spine of the demoralized Congolese...
The Chinese were quick to retaliate. Abetted by members of the Triad Society, an illegal but ill-contained gang of Chinese extortionists, pimps, gunmen and gamblers, they took advantage of a break in the hastily imposed curfew to murder a few Malays. One had his head shattered by a hammer...