Word: copse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the cops came they found the judge had planted evidence
As any follower of police fiction knows well, it does not always pay to call the cops. Paul N. Halvonik, 40, a California Courts of Appeal justice, and his lawyer wife Deborah, 37, apparently do not read police fiction. Returning to their home in Oakland Hills early one evening, Mrs...
Inside the ring of the guardsmen, a few Boston police patrol the Common, wondering at the transformation of the beat they walk each night. One has been gone for four months, off work with a stroke. The altar pleases him; the thought that demonstrators may march on the Common scares...
Towards seven, the tension worsens, people hollering at the cops to let them in so they won't lose the places they earned by chilly endurance. The Secret Service insists on "sweeping" the entire Common first for hidden evil, a search-and-destroy operation that requires the pinstripe suit. When...
Chicago police, sometimes to their chagrin, also find themselves under scrutiny. Following the revelation that the cops were spying on political activists, the commission persuaded the late Mayor Richard Daley to establish a citizens police review committee made up of appointees whom they recommended. Even government corruption is a target...