Word: copse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lawless cops?
Philadelphia: Tough-Guy Style A federal grand jury last week indicted three Philadelphia policemen for violating the civil rights of Machinist Edgardo Ortiz, 26. One night last June, according to eyewitnesses, the cops rapped on Ortiz's glass front door and demanded to question him about a report of...
Justice Department officials rate the city's police force "the most brutal in the nation. A local watchdog organization called the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia (PILCOP), set up two years ago with federal money, has logged more than 400 complaints about brutality so far his year. Reviewing...
The cautious police attitude led quickly to charges that they were allowing violence to occur without interfering. The following night, police, aided by stewards, actively tried to break up gangs of black youths who were menacing black and white passersby. The bullyboys turned on the cops and stewards, showering them...
It was the kind of violence that Britons had come to expect in Northern Ireland but not in their own traditionally peaceful streets. But this summer has changed that, as poor, unemployed blacks and whites have turned their frustration on one another-and the police. For British cops, the Netting...