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...Metzinger, had assumed yet a third identity: inmate number 9309307. Instead of the gourmet food she had earned a living cooking, she had tuna and canned soup in her cell at Nashua Street Jail. (Of Power's accomplices, Gilday is serving a life sentence for pumping the shots into patrolman Schroeder. Her former roommate Saxe is now working for a Jewish charitable organization in Philadelphia; captured in 1975, she served seven years. She sent a note to Power last week asking for a reunion, and Power has said yes. Stanley Bond is dead. He blew himself up in 1972 while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Fugitive | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

Fitzhugh says he spoke with both the sergeant and Johnson about the break-in. "[The sergeant] said he needed a locker for a patrolman, and he tried to reach me at home and couldn't," says Fitzhugh. "I've had an [answering] machine since '89...and the patrolman wasn't coming to work for three weeks...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Rise and Fall of HUPD | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

MALCOLM X ELEMENTARY School is in the heart of Washington's seventh police district. It is known to some officers as "the jungle," because, as one black patrolman observes, "it's all about survival here." Across the street from the school is a graveyard, its iron fence mangled where a sixth-grader crashed a car he had hot-wired. Near an outside corner of the school is "the penthouse," where at night, under a mural of the U.S. flag and the words WE WANT A DRUG-FREE AMERICA, the crackhead prostitutes of Alabama Avenue sell themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes This School Work? | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...cops are human too. "People used to think law enforcement was like Dirty Harry or Miami Vice," says Nick Navarro, sheriff of Florida's Broward County, north of Miami. "Shows like Cops let the American people see what the police are really like." John Cosgrove, a Kansas City, Kans., patrolman who was accompanied by a Cops crew on his midnight shift for two weeks last summer, enjoyed the experience. "Most officers would be apprehensive to have the media ride with them," he says. "But these guys proved themselves to us. They said they wouldn't do anything to undermine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cops and the Cameras | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

Some observers think the East Side Longos would be wise to get airplane tickets too. "The Cambodians know what real war is," says Nen's partner, Patrolman Dan Brooks. "The Hispanics have a street mentality. They shoot on impulse and go home thinking they're safe. But the Cambodians know better." When combat looms, for example, Cambodian gang members sometimes call in reinforcements from hundreds of miles away. Little Devil is an Oriental Lazy Boy from downtown Los Angeles who rode into Long Beach recently with Lazy Boys from Tacoma to help battle the Longos. They left when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Killing Fields to Mean Streets | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

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