Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eventually, as patrol groups expanded to cities nationwide, the Guardian Angels came under fire from civil libertarians who called them "vigilantes," and from police departments who considered them marginally effective nuisances. Still, Sliwa's organization never lost most of its popularity. But reviewing the Angels' record and analyzing a new Guardian Angel anti-crime manual co-authored by Sliwa brings out unflattering sides of the group that police, libertarians and the general public have all overlooked...
Blaney's confidence and her commonsense approach to the job served to case the tensions that might naturally rise from the addition of women into the patrol force. "Walking in her police shoes," notes University Police Capt, Jack W. Morse." I can see it being a somewhat difficult thing to walk into a male-dominated department...
...time, she was told routinely by superiors that she would probably never have a chance at moving into the patrol force "It had nothing to do with sex," she remarks. "They were trying to avoid the dispatchers being frustrated, wanting to be out on the street instead of doing then...
...week, the Israelis have little faith in its ability to maintain security throughout the country. "It's not an army," says a member of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's staff, "it's a name." U.S. officials believe that the Israelis would like expanded multinational units to patrol southern Lebanon or, better still, a U.S. force. Says an Administration official: "The U.S. is an obvious candidate...
...Some 40 patrol boats, torpedo boats, minesweepers, surveying ships and buzzing police launches joined in the hunt. Many of the pursuers carried highly sensitive sonar equipment. Overhead clattered ten antisubmarine helicopters, which lowered hydrophones into the water like stethoscopes. When a telltale noise was heard, a chopper or a boat would drop depth charges in an attempt to force the sub to the surface. The waters of the bay rose in explosive plumes, and the air was filled with the smell of dead fish...