Word: copse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In New York City, off-duty police have scuffled with uniformed officers in vitriolic demonstrations over working conditions. In Detroit, bitter police officers insolently nicknamed their balding chief "Elmer Fudd" in washroom graffiti. San Francisco's new police chief removed the American flag to make his office less formal...
Kojak Acts. In almost every large city across the country, police are in an angry, embattled, sometimes dangerously rebellious mood. During one of the ugly police demonstrations in New York City, the protesting officers spotted Telly Savalas, TV Supercop Kojak, and enthusiastically hoisted him on their shoulders. "I saw that...
Then why are so many police so embittered? The answers start simply enough with money and security. After a few years of pushing up salaries to an average of nearly $13,000 annually for city cops, police negotiators now find municipal treasuries empty. Traditional civil service security has faded after...
> In a Skid Row room in Amsterdam's Rosse Buurt (red-light district), Dutch narcotics cops find a young addict dead, a syringe spiked in the hollow of his elbow.
Amsterdam was the natural rendezvous. The city's large Chinese community (1,500 legal residents and more than 7,000 free-floating illegals) had a long-established internal drug trade; easy Common Market border rules made Amsterdam the perfect hub for Europe-wide smuggling. In 1971 gangsters from triads...