Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June when the two-way radio in his cab blared out the police description of two escaped prisoners from nearby Union County penitentiary. The description tallied perfectly with his last fares. Howard grabbed his radio mike, called his dispatcher's office, which in turn alerted police. Within minutes, patrol cars rolled up and nabbed the escapees. Last week Howard won a $200 award for his good deed. Said Charlotte Police Chief John E. Ingersoll: "We wish we had 10,000 public-spirited citizens like Mr. Howard...
Farther south in Hau Nghia province, a four-man U.S. patrol was attacked in a paddy by a water buffalo. Results of the action, according to a military spokesman in Saigon: "Four U.S. injured and one individual weapon lost to enemy horns." Added the officer, "About two hours later, a resupply helicopter spotted in the same area a water buffalo with an M-16 rifle hanging on its horns. The door gunners engaged the enemy. Final score: one enemy buffalo killed and one individual weapon recovered...
...Hanna, Wyo., with no angry sense of color, he came to Watts in 1957 and was quickly told by new classmates that he "talked funny." By August 1965, he was talking wise-and wearing tight trousers and Italian shoes. Officers Lee Minikus and Bob Lewis of the California Highway Patrol, who arrested Frye in the sight of hundreds of irritable Negroes, were well-trained, ambitious cops who bore no overt prejudices against Negroes. One of the rioters that the book focuses on is Cotter Williams, 15, who hated the "Whips" (white power structure); when the $16 a month he made...
Back to Normal. In Detroit, despite continuing sniper fire, the rampage began subsiding about the time that the depleted stores ran out of items to loot. On the fifth day, Commissioner Girardin's patrol car was picking its way through downtown traffic, which finally began returning to its normal state-impossible. Suddenly the police dispatcher's voice crackled over the radio and Girardin instinctively tensed. "Watch out for stolen car," the dispatcher advised. Girardin's well-wrinkled face was wreathed in a smile. "We are just about back to normal," he said. "All we need...
With the proper training and planning, however, some police departments have shown that they can be an effective force against all but the biggest riots-especially in the early stages. New York's 690-man Tactical Patrol Force, created in 1959 to deal with Negro and Puerto Rican youth gangs, and later converted to riot control, is perhaps the best unit of its kind in the country. The elite T.P.F. members are all volunteers and average a vigorous 26 years in age; many of them have served in the Marines and paratroopers. Though most are experts at judo...