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...tough Englewood neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, Anne Claxton stands out for her bravery. The 44-year-old mother was returning to her home from a medical clinic when ex-Con Jamaljah Aliwoli opened fire on two rookie patrolmen who had stopped him for a traffic violation. Patrolman Daniel Duffy fell wounded, and Aliwoli shot wildly at the other officer, Gregory Matura. After wounding Matura, Aliwoli turned and began hunting for Duffy with his .357 Magnum. But Claxton dashed between them, hiding Duffy as the gunman went past. The gunman stared at her before heading straight toward a police...
...disaster," says Thomas E. Donahue, traffic patrolman and safety officer. "There are just so many bicycles. They're everywhere. They drive anywhere they want. They don't stop at lights, they don't follow the flow of traffic. A lot ride right down the middle of Mass...
...what is the MDC for if not protecting a tradition like the Head of the Charles? The only "problem" is that the MDC either sends 30 patrolman to control a crowd of 200,000, as it did two years ago, or announces the end of fun and sends a battalion of 300 police dressed like comic book heroes, as it did this year...
Last week the dream came true. The back door of a Wells Fargo truck lugging some $400,000 along route I-95 burst open and, suddenly, according to a highway patrolman, it "rained $20 bills." A massive traffic jam ensued as astounded motorists abandoned their vehicles to merrily chase the cash. When lawmen arrived and ordered the gleeful pursuers to return the loot, some complied. But all together, the money chasers carried with them what a Wells Fargo spokesman later called a "significant" amount of money...
...Davis and the black-power movement," she says. Grant, who heads the local council in Haringey, has been unflatteringly labeled Barmy Bernie by conservative tabloids. It was he who declared that police had been given a "bloody good hiding" after a 1985 race riot in Tottenham during which a patrolman was hacked to death. Grant has since kept a relatively low profile...