Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours, he directed the investigation of the murder and also expertly fielded newsmen's questions on nationwide TV. Most Californians knew of him long before, almost from the very day in February 1967 that he moved into the chief's office in L.A.'s new eight-story headquarters building, known to the force as the "Glass House...
...civilians than any other big-city force (three civilians for every ten in uniform); they handle many tasks, such as clerical work and traffic direction, that elsewhere sworn policemen usually perform, thus freeing all but a few regulars for active law-enforcement duty. An elite team of 225, known as the "Top Group," has been organized for special assignments, such as nabbing organized car-theft rings or stickup artists. A "community radio watch," composed of cabbies and truck drivers who have two-way radios, is being formed to alert police to violations. Eventually, Reddin guesses, the radio watchers could...
...four friends and each of them calls four more; the chain continues until a large part of the community knows that there are at least two sides to the story. "It's very loose-knit," admits Reddin, "but it gets the word out. And the people involved aren't known as finks...
Monsters with Badges. The Reddin blueprint pays attention to the young?rather self-consciously. Fourteen officers, each known as "Policeman Bill," are assigned to the city schools' first, second and third grades, where they tell children about the policeman's job. It all sounds a little cloying. Even so, before one "Policeman Bill's" visit, a survey showed, ghetto children portrayed cops as monsters with whips and flashing silver badges. After he left, they scrawled kindly father figures. To woo teenagers, almost always the troublemakers in ghetto disturbances, the L.A.P.D. has experimentally hired twelve youths for help on such minor...
...story). The Russians apparently decided that matters had got out of hand when Prague newspapers printed a manifesto demanding that hard-line and usually pro-Soviet Communists be driven from high government and party posts, and urging the public to use strikes, boycotts and demonstrations to force them out. Known as "the 2,000 words," the manifesto was originally signed by 70 members of the country's elite, including artists, film directors and athletes; later, more than 30,000 more Czechoslovaks signed up. The document is designed to build up sentiment for a purge of hard-liners...