Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Who wants to be a cop? One of the most common types is the ex-high school athlete who went directly into a virile military unit like the Marines, and now seeks security in a job that requires no college degree. Often he aims to live far from the inner...
The same kind of analysis can, of course, be applied to the motives of judges, surgeons, soldiers and presidential candidates, to say nothing of journalists. In fact, police work also attracts large numbers of men who sincerely want to serve the public, delight in chores as disparate as solving murders...
In many respects policemen represent the most typical beliefs and attitudes of their communities, including what Los Angeles Chief Thomas Reddin deplores as a moralistic tendency to see things in terms of either-or. Not surprisingly, police tend to be appalled by abnormal behavior and rebellions against authority. Most scorn...
Why is it necessary? Why should a policeman be required to stand filthy abuse from highly unattractive protesters? In part because, as the Supreme Court interprets it, the First Amendment commands American policemen to protect free speech. More important, a policeman who can ignore abuse is not only a good...
The truth is that such disasters as the Battle of Chicago are easily avoided by granting the demonstrators' legitimate demands, such as rallying in parks, and smothering the affair in a soft blanket of civic disinterest. This takes official determination to forget the High Noon syndrome, ample communication with...