Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief William H. Parker was a crusty law-enforcement fundamentalist who spent 16 years building the Los Angeles Police Department into one of the best known, best paid and least corrupt in the U.S. There was a price though: a chilly distance between the cops and the slum Negroes that...
Reddin's task is complicated by the vastness of Los Angeles, a manpower shortage and his department's consequent impersonality. For all its prowess in chasing the Mafia to Las Vegas, the L.A. department is seriously undermanned. Even at a minimum $7,692 a year (near tops in...
Pecking Order. As a result, the L.A. cops patrol almost entirely in cars rather than pounding a beat on foot, and lose touch with people in the process. Hurtling to one crime call after another, police sometimes seem to view Negroes and Mexicans (24% of the populace) through the eyes...
He did a four-year hitch in the Navy, wound up as a Los Angeles gas-station manager. A customer gawked at his size (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.), suggested that he become a policeman. So did several cops who stopped in for gas. Reddin signed up in 1941...
Author MacDonald raises the take to $800,000 in untraceable cash, and broadens the cast to include finagling financiers, tough Texas lawyers, Cuban exiles, beach boys, con men and cops. He has also invented a demented new character who holds the shipwrecked girl prisoner, thereby prolonging the story and deepening...