Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite pot's wide acceptance among most students, parents and law enforcement officials continue to group it with harder drugs. Cambridge police chief Leo F. Davenport said last week, "The problem with marijuana is that it leads to the harder stuff--LSD, cocaine, mescaline, speed, heroin, the stuff that will hurt you." Davenport still thinks that marijuana is "a major concern" for law enforcement officials...
...like a sock in the face," City Councilor Walter J. Sullivan said of the proposal. He added that if the city council created a police commissioner, it would be refusing to give police chief Leo F. Davenport "an opportunity to see what kind...
...Davenport, a 30-year veteran of the Cambridge police force, was sworn in as police chief last Monday...
...commissioner as the best way to strengthen the police force. The reform of the police department is more than a six month job. It is a several year job, and it's more than one person can do," adding that he had supported the concept of police commissioner before Davenport was appointed...
James L. Sullivan, Cambridge city manager, appointed Davenport, who was one of two police captains who passed the civil service examinations. Fratto did not compete for the position of permanent police chief...