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...night wore on, the number of lawmen prowling the mountains rose to 150. Five vanloads arrived carrying teams of specially trained state trooper SWAT teams. At the direction of Attorney General Bell, who stayed in close contact with the President, the FBI took charge of the case, and 75 agents moved quickly into the area. The FBI ordered in a special helicopter armed with an infra-red sensing device; it began roaming the area, hunting for minute changes in temperature on the forest floor that might be caused by the presence of men. In all, five helicopters flew over...
...gizmos have been widely criticized by lawmen as "licenses to speed." Says Mississippi Public Safety Commissioner James Finch: "My feeling about any device used to circumvent or break our speed laws is that it should be made illegal." Though several states have outlawed Fuzzbusters, the bans have been struck down as an unconstitutional limitation of the public's right to receive any electronic signal on the air. Legal or not, more than 500,000 of the detectors have been sold so far. and over 1 million may well be in use by the end of the year...
...murder has stirred hoods and lawmen. Who killed Frank Chin? Any number of people might have wanted to see him dead. Chin's most popular device, selling for $300 and up, was a Sony AM/FM cassette recorder adapted to receive sounds transmitted by "bugs" small enough to be hidden behind an electric wall socket. Chin's wares were bought by such varied customers as police in Connecticut and New Jersey (some with known Mafia connections), the Communist and Nationalist Chinese, United Nations officials, assorted foreign agents, the CIA and, some say, the White House plumbers of the Nixon...
Ever since the gold rush, do-it-yourself lawmen have aided the Bay Area's overtaxed gendarmerie by offering extra protection to merchants and homeowners. The 1899 city charter legitimized the freelancers and brought them under the official umbrella of the police department, but kept them in business. The "Specials" report to local precincts, wear regulation blue, carry guns and nightsticks. They follow all the rules imposed on regular cops and wield most of their powers-unlike other private security agents such as the Pinkertons, who have to call a policeman if they want to make an arrest...
Taking their places are politically savvy lawmen like Robert L. (for Lee, naturally) Turner, 46, of Autauga County, Ala. Like most of his Deep South colleagues, who generally still favor straightening out troublemakers in the woods behind the courthouse. Turner is a firm believer in law-and-order. But he made certain to pass out his "Sheriff Turner" pens last year evenhandedly to blacks and whites alike; his constituency of 25,000 is 28% black. Turner's law-enforcement philosophy: "We do our dead-level best to negotiate rather than have a bunch of folks get hurt. The [white...