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...still rumbling and the cops were being charged with brutality, inefficiency, corruption and so forth. So this new commissioner-his name, I learned, is Johannes F. Spreen, and he comes from New York City-announces a big-deal program of police reform. Tough new disciplinary standards, new equipment, etc. Mace? Hell, no! You won't believe it, honey, but Spreen's cure-all for crime is another four-letter word: LOVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: From Detroit, with Love | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...three locks on the door, but in the process he dropped the 7-lb. vertical steel bar from the $14.50 Police Fox lock on his foot. After apologizing profusely to the cops, he limped back inside to get his overcoat, checked to make sure that his can of Mace was in the pocket, re-locked the door and headed for the bus stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Long Day in the Frightful Life | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...open his triple-locked door. The delay proved unfortunate. Before John could slither inside his urban fortress, three thugs lurking in the vestibule relieved him of his wallet, his watch and his girl friend's Protectalarm. Then, for good measure, they gave him a whiff of his own Mace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Long Day in the Frightful Life | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...Eastern Michigan University by 200 students, cut chains off the doors and arrested twelve demonstrators. At Berkeley, 100 police men clashed with thousands of demonstrators supporting a month-long strike for Third World Liberation Front demands. Pelted with rocks, bottles and fire bombs, the cops fought back with Chemical Mace, clubbed four strikers and arrested 24. While the University of California's regents met at the ex plosive Berkeley campus, Governor Ron ald Reagan alerted National Guard units to stand by in nearby Alameda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Signs of Moderation? | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

Point of Honor. The company's research-and-development department never ceases. A Bangor Punta subsidiary, General Ordnance Equipment Corp., which has done very well with its highly profitable Mace, has another comer in a 25-lb. device that generates a billowing smoky haze called Pepper Fog. The $395 tubular generator can be slung and aimed from the shoulder, and it has cleared 400 rioting prisoners from a large building in 2½ minutes. The company, having sold what it had thought would be a full year's supply in four months, has lately increased production facilities fivefold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MAKING CRIME PAY | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

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