Word: copse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the cause of the looting, New York's massive show of police force, and the cops' restraint, helped keep the nightmare from becoming even worse or continuing after the lights went back on Thursday. Canceling all leaves, the department mustered about 8,000 of its 26,000-person force...
Ever since the student uprisings at Columbia University a decade ago, New York cops have been instructed not to beat or shoot at rioters. Said Deputy Commissioner Francis J. McLoughlin last week: "They were under orders to break up unruly crowds or looters by charging with their night sticks but...
Reported TIME Correspondent Jack White, who covered the 1968 racial uprising in Washington, D.C.: "The cops have learned a lot about riot control in the last decade. In the past, officers hopelessly outnumbered by angry crowds frequently fired on them and increased their anger. But in New York, large numbers...
Sometimes looters were let go with a warning. One experienced pair of 26-year-old cops, with modish long hair and sideburns, spun around Bedford-Stuyvesant in a battered 1970 Dodge painted to look like a gypsy taxi. They spied a young boy carrying a big box. The frightened kid...
As evening fell on Thursday, the ghettos gradually returned to normal. On some streets there was almost a sense of camaraderie between the cops and the black and Hispanic youths. Some of the officers in Bedford-Stuyvesant swung their long riot sticks like golf clubs, sending tin cans and other...