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...trigger-happy crack gangs have pointed the way for other criminals who once carried relatively crude firearms or none. "The old adage about burglars and car thieves never being armed is completely changed," says Dee Anderson, an Arlington, Texas, patrolman. He reports that an Uzi and a shotgun were recently used in stickups of a convenience store and a fast-food outlet in that north Texas city. Police also note apprehensively a tendency among all types of criminals not just to carry guns but to use them rather than submit to arrest. Says Houston Police Officer Al Baker: "Just about...
Last year residents of Cicero, a Chicago-area community notorious for its racism, called the police to report that a black man was impersonating a police officer, wearing a police uniform and driving a squad car. That was patrolman Wesley Scott, the town's first and only black policeman. Almost ! daily, he endures racial insults and humiliation, not only from the people he has sworn to protect but also from some of his fellow officers upon whom his life may depend...
...eleven. He is the oldest of 16 children. A gentle man and a voracious reader, he rarely lets his guard down with his colleagues. He has taken a private oath that he will not allow himself to be goaded into any actions that might jeopardize his position. As a patrolman, he makes $22,500 annually. But his objective goes well beyond police work. "My purpose is to bridge the gap between those who espouse racism and those who are at least liberal enough to understand this is the 20th century...
...test and get promoted, or you stay a cop for history," says Officer Michael Corr, 33. Corr took the sergeant's exam when it was last given in 1983. He failed by 3 points, losing the promotion with its $44,000 sergeant's pay -- $10,000 above a patrolman's maximum. If he misses again, the next round will probably not come up for four to six years (or whenever there are enough vacancies to justify an exam). "When you take the test," says Corr, "everybody knows -- your mother-in-law, the neighbors. If you fail, everybody knows that...
Explanations, but not excuses, for the officers' conduct lie in several other reported details: that Marti yelled at the officers, refused to show an I.D. and taunted them by asking, "What right do you have, coming here like Gestapo?"; that he injured the patrolman who may have started the brief fight with him; and that the policemen thought they had entered the private Pi EtaClub, when they were actually admitted into Adams House...