Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California's motorists heading east to Las Vegas, the gambling often began at San Bernardino, where a 225-mile superhighway starts across the Mojave Desert. The speed limit is 55 m.p.h., but so many drivers chanced dodging the California highway patrol that on holiday weekends an average of 450 persons ended up losers with traffic tickets...
...paramilitary police force. The whole force walked off the job after the government offered a wage increase of $8 a month instead of the $40 that the cops had asked for. Most units returned to work when ordered to do so, but the 1,200-man radio-patrol force based in downtown Lima held out. The police locked themselves inside the Victoria barracks and refused to leave. Instead of taking the sensible precaution of sending soldiers to protect the city from unrest, Velasco issued ultimatum after ultimatum to the strikers. Then he sent in tanks-Soviet-built T-55 models...
Preston said that last December, in order to improve traffic law enforcement, the department hired nine parking control officers to patrol Cambridge streets in search of parking and other traffic violators...
...Dallas. After inspecting the skid marks and finding a telltale dent in one of the Honda's rear fenders, he concluded that a second car had forced Silkwood's auto off the road-thus implying that Silkwood might have been murdered. But the Oklahoma state highway patrol cited an autopsy showing that her blood contained traces of alcohol and methaqualone, which a doctor had prescribed as a sedative. To the police, it seemed evident that she had dozed off at the wheel. The FBI is pursuing the matter further...
...problem is that we're lacking data with regard to basic management," Gorski continued, citing the volume of calls for service, where the calls come from, and time spent on patrol versus time occupied on service as problems requiring attention...