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...uncommon for a rookie to ignore a senior partner when he disagrees with him, although you quickly learn to identify those situations where unanimity comes in handy. The college-educated rookie has to makecertain compromises (more of form, I think, than substance) to get along; but so do all rookies. The Washington force is sufficiently mixed up that even the insurgent policeman is one among many insurgents. (A black officer in my section was recently chewed out for wearing an earring at roll-call.) Occasionally the dissident officer gets axed by the system; just as often he appeals...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Up Against the Wall Erratic Glamour in a Cops and Robbers World | 3/26/1971 | See Source »

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