Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They were the kind of cops you'd like to think were patrolling your neighborhood.
Just a routine police chore in the heart of Roxbury. But, as the cops in front of us knew too well, little in the big-city policeman's life is routine.
It all started innocently enough. Our escorts were right out of central casting. Boston cops O'Hara, 27, and Whalen, 26: good-humored, clean-cut, baby-faced Irishmen who had grown up in the neighborhood. Once high school rivals, they had become friends in the Academy and had been partners...
For O'Hara and Whalen, the incident apparently dredged up memories of the assignment both cops agree was one of the toughest.
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