Word: patrollers
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Frustrated by the failure of standard methods to reduce crime, more than 300 cities and towns nationwide -- including Boston, Houston and San Francisco -- are adopting the concept of community policing. Through Community Patrol Officer Programs, these municipalities work to build rapport between police officers and the neighborhoods they patrol. "The message is: the beat cop is back," says New York City police commissioner Lee Brown, who last month launched one of the nation's largest CPOP programs to date...
...reformers had refashioned police departments along more narrowly focused lines. Officers were trained to concentrate on apprehending criminals, especially for the most serious crimes such as murder, assault, robbery and rape. Other functions were handed off to city health and welfare departments or similar agencies. After World War II, patrol cars and two-way radios came into wider use. Police became a mobile force, cruising anonymously through neighborhoods they knew mostly as the staging ground for each night's disturbances...
...serving an increasingly multiracial population of 3.4 million, the L.A.P.D. has the lowest officer-to-resident ratio of the nation's six largest police departments. To compensate, the L.A.P.D. pioneered the use of SWAT teams, helicopter pursuit and a motorized battering ram, tactics that differ markedly from the community-patrol approach many other cities have adopted...
AMONG the committee's recommendations is a plan to designate pathways around campus that would be well lit and frequently patrolled by the police at night. All Centrex phones would be converted to speakerphones with emergency buttons. And police officers would begin to patrol the Yard, Quad and River by foot during their 4:00 p.m. to midnight shifts. Unfortunately, the committee's plans do not really address the problem of how to protect students after midnight, but they are a good start...
...says Dr. Abdul Rahman al-Awadi, a physician who long served as his country's Health Minister and is now Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs. Everyone has witnessed an atrocity or has a tale to tell. Al-Awadi turns pale when he recalls the story of an Iraqi patrol that spotted some Kuwaiti children playing in the street. "They were told to stop, and all but one did," says al-Awadi. "That one was picked up by the hair by an Iraqi soldier -- he was still holding his soccer ball -- and shot in the head in front...