Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of special masks, made from paper bags and decorated with parodies of his own face, to thwart any would-be portraitist. As if a photograph would catch his image in a distortion he could not control. As if being so revealed would endanger his perspective as self-appointed "inspector" of modern life--a term which is also the title of his new book of cartoons...
...work in rape cases. To this end, Lieut. Tucker has organized psychologist-led seminars for both male and female officers. These days, she says, New York police who interview rape victims are now selected with an eye to their emotional sensitivity. But, acknowledges the detective bureau's Deputy Inspector Terrence McKeon, "You have to be a woman to understand the shock a rape victim has experienced...
...high homicide rate is a cultural problem as well as a gun problem. Detroit's need for unskilled labor has brought in vast numbers of rural Southern blacks and increasing numbers of rural whites. Says Homicide Inspector John Domm: "The kids grow up in a culture of aggression, the poor and the black learn to get ahead by being aggressive. People who look for the police to solve this problem are looking in the wrong direction." Meanwhile, Dr. Tanay warns that the chances of getting murdered in a gun-laden society are so great that it is unwise ever...
...matters worse, the colonels seemed determined to turn Ghana into one big boot camp by "drilling" people-forcing them to run and roll on the ground at gunpoint-for the slightest offense. A number of civil servants have found themselves drilled for reporting late to work, and one customs inspector at Accra airport suffered the same punishment for daring to check a Cabinet Minister's baggage...
...well, that while waiting for a combat command, Herbert made powerful enemies executing his office of Inspector General. He investigated every scandal right up to its embarrassing conclusions. (One of Herbert's investigations was finally concluded last Wednesday, when the Sergeant Major of the Army pleaded guilty to running the "khaki cosa nostra" in Vietnam.) The two most powerful were Colonel Ross Franklin and General John W. Barnes, who became his immediate superiors when he was given command of the 2nd Batallion of the 173rd Air-borne. Herbert shrugged them off, confident that he was safest in sticking to Army...