Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women's liberation notwithstanding, most residents of large U.S. cities probably still harbor an untested suspicion that police patrol duty is men's work - tough, grueling and occasionally filled with split-second dangers. A study released this week by the Police Foundation in Washington, D.C., a law enforcement research organization, upsets almost every facile objection to women on patrol. The survey compared 86 male with 86 female officers on the capital's police force for a year and found little difference in the abilities of men and women to deal with violent, or potentially violent, situations. Women...
...broad, carefully smoothed patrol road that Israel maintains along the border in order to turn up trespassers showed the boot prints of fedayeen moving onto the Israeli side. Roads were sealed off and army patrols sent out to hunt down the marauders...
...students' first day was routine. The only hint of danger came when a side trip into a wadi, or dry river bed, had to be canceled after an army patrol told the teachers that Palestinian guerrillas might be hiding there. At dusk, the school caravan reached Ma'alot, and the travelers bedded down in sleeping bags in the town's three-story concrete school building. Students and teachers took turn staying awake along with the guards. But the weapons that the adults had brought along?an Uzi submachine gun and some bolt-action rifles?were left in a truck outside...
Cambridge Housing Authority police, who usually patrol the developments, were laid off their jobs last week when the Department of Housing and Urban Development cut $231,000 from the budgets of five Cambridge housing projects...
...long ago, Trooper Lassiter stood by the side of a car he had stopped and was writing the driver a ticket when a pickup truck swerved across the road, struck the car Lassiter had stopped, and killed the trooper as he tried to duck behind his patrol car. The pickup truck bounced off the patrol car and kept on going. The next day the truck's driver turned himself in to the Covington County sheriff. He admitted he had been out the night before visiting several bars, but was unable to remember going home or who drove the truck...