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...percent of U.S. municipalities have SWAT units, and in cities with over 50,000 people, the number rises to 90 percent. Unsurprisingly, this has led to a dramatic escalation in the number of SWAT team deployments—over 50,000 last year, according to Professor Peter Kraska at Eastern Kentucky University. That’s 137 raids...
...course, breaking into homes with overwhelming force is tremendously exciting. Kraska says that "these elite units are highly culturally appealing to certain sections of the police community. They like it, they enjoy it […] The chance to strap on a vest, grab a semi-automatic weapon and go out on a mission is […] an exciting reason to join." Emphasizing this glamorous appeal, the LAPD’s recruiting video presents a day in the life of a cop: Catching robbers, rescuing hostages, and taking on gun-toting kidnappers with air support and a SWAT team...
...blows its chances in 1968 with a ho-hum compromise candidate, someone in the party hierarchy will see the light. It would be a pleasure to see Mr. Buckley take on Bobby Kennedy in 1972: then there would be no way for the baloney to reject the grinder. RICHARD KRASKA Providence...
...goes to the movies, rarely has films exhibited in his Commonwealth Avenue home, and on those infrequent occasions seldom applauds or sees a picture to its end. Last fortnight, however, Cardinal O'Connell beat palm on palm while sitting through a film brought to his house by George Kraska, manager of Boston's highbrow Fine Arts Theatre, and Rev. Michael Joseph Ahern, S. J., one of New England's ablest Jesuits. The picture was Monastery, a European religious documentary film, the better part of which was made by Robert Alexandre of Pathe Cinema de France, who directed...
When Manager Kraska obtained the U. S. rights to Monastery, he invited his good friend Father Ahern to help him cut, revise and edit it, as well as deliver a dubbed-in commentary. For the jovial, baldish Jesuit, this was a congenial assignment. Father "Mike" Ahern, 60, is an accomplished Catholic publicist. Head of the departments of chemistry and geology at Weston College, New England Jesuit training college, he is also a teacher of philosophy, science and theology at Boston College, and, since 1929, speaker on Boston station WNAC's "Catholic Truth Period...