Word: inspectorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such criticisms are rarely ignored, if only because the cities themselves pay the cost of the studies (they can run to as much as $100,000, take up to a year to prepare). The jolting indictment of the Baltimore force prompted the resignations of the commissioner and his chief inspector. In New York, a twelve-man board is considering the I.A.C.P. recommendations and is expected to implement many. In fact, the nation's police forces are so anxious to hear what is wrong with them that there are currently 22 that have paid in advance for studies...
...Then the T.P.F.s split into small teams, scattering the mob down side streets. Other T.P.F.s took the "high ground," the rooftops, in search of snipers. "When we have the rooftops and can see all windows on both sides of the street," says the force's commander, Assistant Chief Inspector Charles E. McCarthy, "then we can decide what we want to do next." In three nights of rioting, New York's cops fired only 50 to 75 rounds, in return had 150 to 200 directed at them. One reason for such economy is that Police Commissioner Howard Leary requires...
Godard uses the closeup at the end when an inspector asks Miss Goya what she will do now that her boyfriend is dead (a silly accident) and she's pregnant. Miss Goya repeats in a still voice, "I don't know"--her face almost expressionless. The effect is ambiguous, exactly like the end of Breathless. Is she finally touched by something outside herself? I don't think so. This is the closest she will ever be to having her self-containment shattered. But it can't be shattered. And just as her non-involvement protects her from an awareness...
...Munson, the building inspector who would force parents to obtain tree-house permits [July 7] for the safety of their kids. And a plague on him for daring to suggest specifications. Shall we add this to the burgeoning list of personality-stifling, scarlet-taped "blueprints for living" that add so much pallor to American childhood these days? Can a boy build his Shangri-la with a mind cluttered by requirements for 1-in. floor boards, two-by-four framing and 42-in.-high walls? Can he grow into the resourceful, inventive, self-sufficient man he's expected...
...civil case growing out of the same offense. And British courts allowed a special twist in 1964, when Convicted Safecracker Alfie Hinds realized that the one- court-does-not-recognize-what-the-other-is-doing theory could also be applied to libel cases. He sued a retired police inspector who had arrested him and who had written a series of articles saying that he was guilty. The libel jury awarded Alfie $3,640 in damages. Using the same theory, Convicted Train Robber Goody planned to nick The People for a few thousand quid...