Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policemen, a University policeman and a Cambridge policeman, are on duty enforcing the restriction. Harvard, which owns the Forbes Plaza property, pays the policemen a combined total of $359 a week to patrol the area...
...would riot themselves out and go home. So what happened? Other riots broke out in other areas." In the end, the insurrection encompassed a region roughly the size of San Francisco. There was little liaison with other agencies, particularly the National Guard, and commanders often could not communicate with patrol cars because their radios operated on different frequencies...
...Watts yielded its lessons, and Los Angeles' riot plan is now geared for all contingencies. Police response is carefully adjusted, like a Herman Kahn scenario, to the size of the disturbance?enough force to smother trouble quickly, but not enough to provoke greater resentment. In each division, half the patrol cars are always tagged for response to special riot alert; if the cars of one division should prove inadequate to halt a disturbance, half the cars in the city can be on the move within minutes. If half the department still cannot keep control, nearly the entire uniformed force...
...know who the man behind the badge is, Reddin also gave each cop business cards and name tags?an innocuous but nonetheless controversial departure in a once notoriously highhanded force. Another innovation is actually ancient. Reddin has returned to the streets a man who disappeared from Los Angeles when patrol cars came in: the cop on the beat. It is remarkable in a city where only the poor and the eccentric walk, and so far the experiment is on a tiny scale. About 30 are now pounding the pavements...
...virtues in old ways. "When I was walking a beat," remembers St. Louis' Chief Brostron, "the policeman knew the good people and the bad ones, the joints and the gambling dens. The officer in the car today doesn't have that contact." Still, with the huge expenses of foot patrol, no chief can possibly plan to abandon the economies or the speed of the prowl car or bring back the man on foot in anything like the old numbers...