Word: copses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police were mildly surprised to find a fully clothed gentleman posing for pictures in a Washington, D.C., fountain one morning last week. They were astonished to see the same person half an hour later, this time splashing in the Reflecting Pool on the Capitol Mall. "One of the cops asked...
Boston's officially approved "combat zone" in the Washington Street area is designed to contain the spread of "adult" entertainment, but the city also has a conservative district attorney and an activist vice squad. In the past several months police raided every porn moviehouse and bookstore within the combat zone...
No Excuse. Eaves launched his campaign with characteristic directness: he demoted more than 100 acting sergeants and other commanders and installed his own team, promoting more than 30 blacks. He also increased recruit training from six weeks to 19 weeks, and required all cops to take "crisis intervention" classes to...
In one violent South Side neighborhood, Eaves set up an integrated "crime control team" that made the cops on the beat responsible for following a case through, instead of turning it over to a detective. Local cops were thus forced to develop neighborhood contacts who could supply information needed to...
Eaves has pushed a number of new tactics, with the help of federal funds from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. A squad of cops disguised as tramps and winos was set up to lure muggers, and high-crime areas were assigned a special force of additional patrolmen. Says Eaves: "We...