Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firm will study the work of the Planning Board, the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority, and all volunteer planning agencies, such as the neighborhood planning teams, Sullivan said. In response to a question from Councillor Edward A. Crane '35, the manager said that the Harvard and M.I.T. planning offices would be included. "Certainly, I think that any planning done by Harvard or M.I.T. has a direct bearing on the City," Sullivan commented...
...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-making potential of the people on his street than poring for hours over the book. The law only provides the patrolman with names of charges to use if an arrest...
...American policemen did behave like watchmen, ignoring small offenses and maintaining order through their personal authority (often backed with fists) rather than by their arrest power. The watchman-style patrolman judges offenses by the prevailing standards of the immediate community. He might ignore a small theft in a ghetto neighborhood, but investigate the same theft in a prosperous white area. Only in more serious offenses would he crack down, perhaps breaking a few more heads in a street brawl than would a policeman with a different style. An officer of the Albany police force described his watchman style...
...sanguine, but sensible. Even though administrative control over the patrolman is limited, the police chiefs can try to lay down some negative polices: how not to treat Negroes, for example. And police departments can be functionally decentralized; policemen should be given a better chance to know their neighborhood, the better to exercise their discretion...
...more often than not what that disguise involves is a rhetorical and usually very funny attack on institutions outside of East Cambridge which serves to draw attention away from what is actually happening in Vellucci's neighborhood and strengthens his own position as baiter of a common enemy. The very rich and the very powerful represent the most visible threats to the community, and, while Vellucci's attacks on the University always strike a responsive chord, they also increase the paranoia that is beginning to spread through the neighborhood. While Vellucci may refused in just to eat or drink...