Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ugly Mood. After the speech, a crowd of 500 gathered in a park to listen to student radicals. Many of the wholesome-looking youths, clenched fists raised, appeared to be out for a lark. But the mood suddenly turned ugly, and when police patrol cars appeared a block away, the crowd began hurling rocks...
...their new police chief with sullen oaution. From some whites, he is even beginning to win a grudging respect. Despite his flamboyance, Wyche has moved discreetly. He has equalized his force at six blacks and six whites, besides himself, and intends to maintain a balance. Integrated pairs usually man patrol cars. "Now blacks and whites make arrests together, so there's no favoritism," he says, puffing on one of his ever-present Roi-Tan cigars. Wyche and his black cops have not hesitated to arrest whites, and there has been no trouble so far. Several weeks ago, Wyche calmly...
...combined imperial forces did during World War II. They know that the country will soon start building 105 Phantom jets under license from the U.S., and that a submarine fleet is in the talking stage. And they have heard talk that Tokyo may one day send warships to patrol the narrow Strait of Malacca to protect its merchant fleet from Indonesian pirates...
...have formed a ghetto, out of self protection. It is a ghetto rather than a free territory because it is still theirs. Straight cops patrol us, straight legislators govern us, straight employers keep us in line, straight money exploits us. We have pretended everything is OK, because we haven't been able to see how to change it-we've been afraid...
...Francisco: Our ghetto certainly is more beautiful and larger and more diverse than most ghettos, and is certainly freer than the rest of America. That's why we're here. But it isn't ours. Capitalists make money off us, cops patrol us government tolerates us as long as we shut up, and daily we work and pay taxes for those who oppress...