Word: councilmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minimize crime are now recognizing that police have a serious task on their hands. Large numbers of blacks, realizing that crime victimizes them more often than any other group, are clamoring for more protection. Here and there, voters are even giving police political power. Ex-cops are now city councilmen in Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. In Minneapolis last fall, Detective Charles Stenvig was elected mayor by a landslide. And in city after city, police associations are winning ever-larger voices in municipal management...
...racial fears could not balance Addonizio's debits in the polling booth. Chief among them appeared to be the extortion charges for which he is now on trial. Three city councilmen indicted with him were also defeated at the polls last week. Gibson, who takes office July 1 and has not yet made his key appointments, will have to work with a council composed of six whites and three blacks, five elected from opposition seats...
...dozen experts brought in from the outside were available for counsel. The city administration was never represented in any strength, but District Attorney Harold Fitzkee Jr. participated regularly. Mayor Eli Eichelberger apprehensively attended only after he had been assured that he would not be heckled from the floor, and Councilmen David Milne Jr. and Albert L. Hydeman Jr. were present on occasion...