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While he feels that enforcement of the law is practically impossible, (Ready says it is enforced), Morton said that the present complement of night patrolmen could easily enforce a more realistic ordinance and would also be more disposed to do so. Sullivan wants more police...
Official New York went into furious action. Cops filled the tanks of their prowl cars so that they would not have to waste a minute during errands of rescue. Extra patrolmen were stationed in waterfront areas. The fire department sent extra pumpers to vulnerable Staten Island. Civil Defense stayed open all night, its rescue trucks on the ready. The Coast Guard warned shipping, mobilized crews of emergency workers. Airlines canceled flights...
...Kerr fired five times in the darkness, but fell to the floor, critically wounded, as Carpenter dashed behind the screen and out a fire exit, trailing a spoor of blood from a slug in his right thigh. For the next 23 hours, 500 enraged detectives and 60 squads of patrolmen roamed the area, intent on getting Cop-Killer Carpenter. A helicopter watched the rooftops. Scores of radio and TV broadcasts told Chicagoans that one of the city's greatest manhunts...
Even on the beat, the police's primary concern is precautionary and not punitive. Patrolmen attend meetings and dances (center left) seeking to prevent trouble, and lock windows and doors in rooms to prevent thefts. "We worry about this even more than the students," said one officer...
...Accuse! In Elyria, Ohio, after Mrs. Alice Bew telephoned police to come arrest her husband George for drunkenness, two patrolmen arrived, listened to both Bews, locked up Alice but left George free...