Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obvious evidences of Viet Cong in the area, Fall was relaxed and in good humor. He even joked about the danger. "The dean of Howard told me to be careful. He said it would sound like hell if they had to name a building Fall Hall." As the patrol inched toward a helicopter pickup point, the Marines fanned out in a protective arc. Fall was walking slowly along the edge of a dirt road talking with a combat photographer when his boot came down in a high clump of grass. The Marines saw his body lift into the air even...
...unite the resources of the Christian community in a concerted attack" on the socioeconomic problems of the poverty-ridden district. Recently they hired a full-time coordinator, Presbyterian Minister John Peterson, to advise member-ministers on programs they might develop. The parish so far has fielded volunteer-manned patrol cars to assist police in curbing crime, organized a child-care program for working mothers, set up interracial, interfaith coffeehouses for youths...
Pecking Order. As a result, the L.A. cops patrol almost entirely in cars rather than pounding a beat on foot, and lose touch with people in the process. Hurtling to one crime call after another, police sometimes seem to view Negroes and Mexicans (24% of the populace) through the eyes of an occupation army. Only 4% of the force are Negroes, compared with 13.5% of the population. By comparison, of New York City's regular, transit and housing police, 9% are Negroes, v. 15% of the population. The minorities seem sometimes in the grip of an anti-cop mystique...
Critics charge that the department's impersonality is reinforced by its own pecking order. Since the front-line patrol-car force has the lowest status, it tends to consist of men who have failed promotion or who have been demoted. Rookies learn that the way out of the car is to write more traffic tickets and exceed their informal quotas (based on anticipated crime) in making "field interrogations" and misdemeanor arrests. Civil rights leaders argue that police sometimes overexercise their discretionary powers by hitting minority groups for marginal offenses. In slum areas, critics claim, such zeal is often self...
Sensor and Instant Lawyers. Chief Reddin is full of ideas, such as incentive pay to raise patrol-force status and keep good men in prowl cars. He wastes no time blaming the Supreme Court for "handcuffing" policemen. He is much harder on scientists and technicians for ignoring urgent police equipment needs: tiny radios, night glasses, lightweight armor, heat sensors to detect hidden fugitives, metal sensors for frisking suspects. He also wants someone to develop a gadget to stop a fleeing car's engine and a computerized "instant lawyer" to help police field interrogators avoid unlawful procedures...