Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...council requested that City Manager John H. Corcoran meet immediately with Chief James F. Reagan of the Cambridge police, Chief Robert Tonis of the Harvard police and Chief James Olivieri of the MIT campus patrol to discuss measures to counteract the upsurge in crime...
...counted 138 cars racing past him. (But the driver improved his mileage in his BMW from 20 to 25 miles per gallon.) In Washington, one of the few Western states that has imposed a new legal limit, Anthony Stokes, a Seattle builder, chased down a speeding state patrol car and demanded that the offending patrolman give himself a ticket. (He did not, but he was officially reprimanded by his chief.) In Massachusetts, a woman who was ticketed for going 48 m.p.h. in a 35-m.p.h. zone had a ready excuse: "The Governor said that we should be doing...
...police patrolling in squad cars really cut the crime rate? Newly named FBI Director Clarence Kelley decided to test the long-accepted axiom last year when he was chief of police in Kansas City, Mo. Kelley selected three urban areas that had similar crime and population patterns. In one, all cruising squad car patrols were eliminated; the second was covered by five cars, just as it had been before the experiment; the third area was flooded with 15 cars. The year-long experiment, which ended in October, indicates that patrol cars have no significant effect on crime. In each...
...chief, relying for advice on a small circle of ministers and halfbrothers. There are no elections, no political parties and no legislature and no constitution besides the Koran. Religion permeates public life, and the only law of the land is the law of Islam. The Mutawa, or religious police, patrol the streets to make sure that Saudis observe their prayer times and close their shops when they do so. Harsh penalties for crime remain on the books-stoning to death for adultery, beheading for murder, cutting off a hand for thievery-though they are far less frequently applied than they...
...developments came as U.N. officials began assembling an international force to patrol the Middle East cease-fire...