Word: goodin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cockney with three sons declared, "All I want to do is get back to me England." Two California vegetarians brought wine, cheese, pita bread, sunflower seeds and pretzels. Many passengers were drawn by Freddie's feisty image. "Freddie is in a dogfight for the little man," said Pete Goodin, a biology student from Illinois on his way to Glasgow...
Tremendous Shock. "People were kind of horrified," declared City Manager William Donaldson. Goodin and the six other indicted police officers were suspended without pay. Although not linked publicly with any wrongdoing, Deputy Chief Embry Grimes and a district captain abruptly resigned. "It has been a tremendous shock to the city," said Mayor Bobbie Sterne. The grand jury is expected to hand up many more indictments, involving a number of officers as well as some civilians...
...Chief Goodin, facing five felony charges that could lead to as much as 15 years in prison, insisted that "I will be vindicated-I have done nothing illegal, unethical or immoral...
...from-the-ranks officer, Goodin graduated first in his class of recruits and was named chief in 1971. He won nationwide attention with a neighborhood team-policing concept, which involved taking cops out of their cruisers and assigning them to long-term service on beats so that they could get to know their assigned neighborhoods. He also established an alcohol-action project, which included mandatory rehabilitation classes for drunken drivers. His department was a model for other cities in the early 1970s...
...when it began unearthing evidence of corruption, the grand jury took over. What it was investigating was a story of vice cops soliciting bribes and police shaking down people for money, merchandise and prostitutes' services. Under Simon Leis Jr., 41, Hamilton County prosecutor and a personal friend of Goodin's, the grand jury charged the chief and two officers with having lied to the jurors during the investigation...