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Already, however, Corcoran is water-ing down the purpose of the committee. In his recent report to the City Council on the progress of the committee he again emphasized the fact that only he has the power to hire and fire in the city. Quoting five paragraphs of President Nixon's Commission of Police-Community Relttions, he said, "We must work, and find new methods, to develop a positive approach to police-community relations...
Unfortunately Corcoran has taken no action to coincide with his rhetoric. As he probably foresaw, the committee on police brutality has met twice and spent the whole time discussing who the fifth member will be. The selection of a fifth member that can be mutually agreed on by the two representatives of the black community and the two city representatives will probably take another two months. By then the committee will be functioning well as the kind of delaying instrument Corcoran meant...
EVER SINCE the Cambridge City Council adopted Rent Control last September City Manager John Corcoran and Interim Rent Control Administrator Philip M. Cronin have delayed implementation of the law. Corcoran has never appointed a full-time administrator, and he fired Joseph A. Spadafora, a young lawyer hired as Executive Director, after only one week on the job, Cronin began his administration by temporarily adjusting all rents to the current level, a move of questionable legal status, and now that the rollback provision has finally been implemented, he has come up with a formula to determine rent adjustments that will mean...
Justification for such delaying tactics is going to be harder to find in the future, since the Massachusetts Supreme Court has finally declared the law constitutional. Now there is no excuse for Corcoran not to appoint a full-time permanent administrator; however, he does not seem to be very near doing so. Of the three candidates originally recommended to him for consideration by the "Blue Ribbon" committee of citizens appointed to the Council to screen applicants, two have already been eliminated. One has accepted another job and the other was Spadafora. Corcoran says he has talked several time; with Eugene...
Although rent control has not yet served to bring any large measure of rent relief to tenants it has at leastfunctioned to bring out the effects of different political techniques in the city. The administration of the law by Corcoran and Cronin is another example of one of the main techniques of city government: delay...