Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington we start with a few advantages. The makeup of the force is considerably more heterogeneous than most - by race, by age, and by education. So many of the old-timers have retired or gone to pasture at some desk job that the patrol force is lopsidedly young and inexperienced. Inexperience may not be a virtue (or it may be, for that matter), but it puts you on an even keel with your fellow officers only a few months after you arrive in the precinct. Today you can get a good sampling of the job in a year...
...policemen and others that round up and execute criminals who have eluded the law. Some Guatemalans insist that people with ten or more arrests are being disposed of "to help clear the courts of pending cases." On two occasions, police claimed the victims were killed "attacking an army patrol," an unlikely venture for inveterate pickpockets and drunks...
Asked if such action might presage a harder line by Cambridge police on future busts, Tonis replied, "I don't think there was any plan here. I just think that the officers were on patrol in the area and saw something that made them decide to move in and make the arrests...
Harvard and Cambridge police, accompanied by Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, entered the building shortly after 3 p.m. They were later joined by several members of the Tactical Patrol Force. No press was permitted inside, on orders...
...doomsday scenario, then, would have the Russian trailer getting in just one shot at the 1,000-ft. carrier, presumably not enough to knock it out, before the 450-ft. trailer is attacked by the 164-ft. U.S. patrol craft and must defend itself. The Russians could, of course, assign a smaller boat to trail the U.S. trailer. Eventually a long line of vessels of diminishing size would string out over the Mediterranean. Each would wheel to fire its heavier weapons at the less lethal boat astern. The final casualty might well be a lone U.S. Navy...