Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cheap Shot. Kiritsis pushed Hall along for four blocks, yelling, "Stay back, stay back!" at astonished pedestrians and gathering police. He then commandeered a patrol car and forced Hall to drive to Kiritsis' two-room flat in Crestwood Village West, seven miles away. Once barricaded in his apartment with Hall as hostage, Kiritsis warned the police that the place was booby-trapped with dynamite. Then came his demands. From Meridian, he wanted immediate cancellation of a $130,000 mortgage that he had taken out months before in the hope of developing a 17-acre plot in Indianapolis into...
...lieu of $850,000 bail, Police Chief Eugene Gallagher said: "Tony, you lied to us. You didn't let [Hall go immediately], as you said. You blew it." Officials later said they had never intended to let Kiritsis off in any case. As he slumped into the patrol car, Kiritsis muttered, "A cheap shot, a cheap shot...
...average night, the two police officers start by signing the logbook at San Francisco's Northern District police station. They scan the district's crime sheet, undergo inspection, then climb into a black, unmarked patrol car and exchange kisses before setting out to work...
What makes Ralph and Linnea Grebmeier notable is not just that they are man and wife but that the beat they pound is a family business. A member of San Francisco's freewheeling "Patrol Special" unit, Ralph Grebmeier paid $15,000 for the right to guard one of the city's 62 private patrol sectors-a two-mile-long swath that runs from the Golden Gate Bridge to Fisherman's Wharf. In return, he and his wife now collect $750 per week from 89 clients...
...Specials need every bit of their training to keep the peace. In his 15 years as a freelance cop, John Candido, outgoing president of the Patrol Special Police Officers' Association, has been roughed up, shot in the head and stabbed three times. Muses Candido: "I kick pimps out of hotels, I break up fights in rathole rooming houses. I look in garbage cans for bombs, I break up rapes, I save old ladies from fires, and I walk drunks home." The Grebmeiers have not yet encountered anything so violent. On a typical January night, they found no crime more...