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...other members of Whitlock's committee will be R. Freed Bales, professor of Social Relations; Janet Fraser, director of Student Affairs in the Institute of Politics; Peter Goldmark '68, formerly of Mayor Lindsay's staff; Walter J. Leonard, assistant dean of the Law School; Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean for Student Affairs at the Medical School; and Representative Paul Sarbanes...
...whole system needed cleaning up, Serpico began carrying extra guns for protection and a concealed tape recorder to gather evidence. Whenever he reported his findings, he was promised cooperation by various superiors. But nothing happened. Eventually. Serpico decided to take his evidence directly to the office of Mayor John Lindsay. Even there he was put off. He recalls that one administrator dismissed him as a "psycho," while Aide Jay Kriegel told him, "We can't afford a scandal now. We expect a long hot summer and we don't want to antagonize the police...
Disillusioned, fearful for his life but still determined, Serpico and three other policemen, including an inspector, went to the New York Times more than a year ago and talked into a tape recorder for eight hours. After learning of the upcoming story, Mayor Lindsay quickly announced the formation of an investigation team that ultimately became the Knapp Commission. With some of Serpico's information and volumes of its own, the commission has since compiled a picture of department-wide police corruption. In one reported scandal, two commission investigators came upon a group of officers in uniform brazenly stealing cartons...
...urban voters seemed to be electing administrators like Robert Wagner who were capable of delivering basic services like garbage collection and street cleaning in an efficient way. In the middle '60's, city voters elected dynamic and aggressive liberals like Jerome Cavanaugh in Detroit and John Lindsay in New York. Voters seemed to accept the existence of "the urban crisis" and put their hopes in young liberals who spoke of taking dramatic steps to end "bossism" and solve urban problems. It is interesting that Philadelphia in 1965 elected District Attorney Arlen Specter, who described himself as a "Kennedy Democrat" running...
Incredulous. One last, unlikely resort remains. Suppose, it was suggested to a John Lindsay aide, that the mayor were to come striding out of his office and bark: "I don't care how you do it, I want the harassment of the Soviet diplomats in this city stopped!" Well, said the Lindsay man, the first call would go to the police commissioner. The second would go from the commissioner to his legal counsel. The counsel would quickly burrow into lawbooks to see if there might not be some handy old statutes tucked away. Meanwhile the commissioner would send...