Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That's why, for the most part, the Joe Fridays in the nation's police departments operate out of the detective bureaus, taking care of what James Q. Wilson terms "law enforcement"--the job of solving felony cases such as homicide and grand larceny. Most of these cases have a clearly defined object--catching the criminal--which challenges the tough, analytical minds of the Fridays...
...stepping into armed quarrels between lovers, of shepherding drunks. As Wilson sees it, the patrolman's lot is not a happy one. He pounds his beat alone or in pairs and doesn't enjoy the neat guidelines of the detective; "disorderly conduct," "creating a public nuisance," and other laws used to maintain order leave the patrolman with an enormous amount of discretion since few justices can define order in specific terms or say what annoys the people of a given neighborhood. If Joe Friday were pounding the pavement, he'd have to spend more time learning the personalities and trouble...
...renewal. Today's "good, decent people," he reflects hazily, could no longer be "the same people who had performed the actions . . . the horrifying things they had." The Englishman avoids large moral judgments, clinging instead to those personal restraints and responsibilities that can be defined or implied by the law. Overriding them both is the Jew, Dr. Johann Zadik Grunwald, a crippled survivor of Dachau who journeys back to Germany for the first time since his escape to make a claim for an Israeli charitable organization...
...author, a third year student at the Law School, is studying the problems of redistricting Boston neighborhoods under a grant from the Ford Foundation...
...chance to make him appear a beast that never was on land or sea before. It was page one news last spring when Vellucci sat stony-faced through a young girl's tear-laden hour-long plea that her dog would be strangled if a proposed leash law was passed...