Word: copse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After nearly a year of stings, the Cops in Shops motus operandi has become fairly routine, according to both students and municipal officials.
Coordinated nationally by the non-profit Century Council, Cops in Shops is now in 38 states.
On Cops in Shops's first weekend seven violators were nabbed, including 51-year-old Wilbert McCoy of Dorchester.
The other 19 stores--many of them in and around Harvard and Central Squares-are prime targets for prospective underage drinkers--and over the past year, for undercover cops.
The furor over the alcohol-related death of MIT first-year Scott Krueger was not the catalyst for Cops in Shops, Cambridge officials say, but they admit Krueger's death was always in the back of their minds.