Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles, the decision is left up to the individual cop. Two hundred marksmen have been assigned to a squad named S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics), designed to pick off snipers and to eliminate, presumably, the need for indiscriminate police gunfire, which took innocent victims in Newark and Detroit last year. On the target range they can hit the head of a man's silhouette at 300 yards. A $25,000 trailer has been fitted out as a mobile command post, with an armored underside to fend off Molotov cocktails, and a smaller van is available for secondary commanders. Fibre shields...
...police station remains a place of fear. Precinct-house brutality is uncommon today but not unheard of. When he was Detroit Commissioner in the early '60s, relates U.S. Circuit Judge George Edwards, police sometimes told him that prisoners hurt themselves "falling on the precinct steps." He wondered how a handcuffed man, surrounded by four officers, could possibly suffer a "four-inch cut on the top of the head" in such a fashion and ordered his cops to tell him the facts. He never again received such a report?and, he adds, prisoners tended to "fall" less frequently. Oakland police were...
...Dizzy. Pitchers' performances have been as spectacular as the hitters' have been horrific. It was only seven years ago that Warren Spahn topped all National League hurlers with an earned-run average of 3.01; this year there are 69 pitchers with lower ERAs than that. Three pitchers-Detroit's Denny McLain (record: 17-2), San Francisco's Juan Marichal (15-4) and Cleveland's Luis Tiant (14-5)-all have a shot at winning 30 games, a feat last accomplished by Dizzy Dean in 1934. Tiant, the All-Star game loser, has an incredible...
When John Hersey, determined to do a book on the Detroit riots, chose to concentrate on the events at the Algiers Motel, he had settled on an incident rich in tragedy and drama, one that is a good basis for a novel. He chose, however, to explore the situation in a work of reportage, foregoing his opportunity, as perhaps the best-informed observer of the affair, to propose answers to moot questions and to make judgements on the players and the action of the drama. One wishes he had written the novel, or at least darned the holes...
From the transcripts of Hersey's interviews with each of the participants, only one of the three Detroit policemen involved in the affair, Patrolman David Senak, would seem capable of the kind of thinking which could produce the savage beatings and indiscriminate killing that resulted from the discovery of eleven black men and two white women in the same part of a motel...