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...Breslin volunteered himself as "assistant keeper of morals" to help "investigate sex in the police department." Breslin's sarcastic column ran on the same page as a report on the firing of two officers for allegedly raping and sodomizing a prostitute. Bellowing back, the police union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, put its money where its mouth was: it spent $16,240 for a full-page ad in the Daily News (circ. 1.5 million) lambasting Breslin as "the old Saloon Philosopher." Said the ad, signed by P.B.A. President Phil Caruso: "The most astounding thing about the Breslin column...
...Reduce crime by placing more patrolmen on the street and casting the number of days off for cops each week...
...join the high bench. The real howls, however, did not come until 1961, when Earl Warren's Supreme Court ruled that state as well as federal courts were bound by the rule. About half the states had not previously adopted it; they hurriedly set up programs to school patrolmen on the ins and outs of the new requirements. The specifics changed almost monthly as courts grappled with an array of new defense challenges...
...battle began when a phone call about a purse-snatching brought the police to a black, working-class neighborhood in north Memphis. No suspects were found, so they left. A second call complaining about the handling of the case prompted two patrolmen to visit 2239 Shannon, where they were set upon by the occupants. Two other officers then arrived on the scene. Shots were fired, and three patrolmen fled the house. But one, Robert Hester, 34, was captured and held hostage...
Three Cambridge patrolmen administered emergency treatment until a Cambridge ambulance arrived. Povio's wife, Susan, who has identified the victim as her husband, has not made any statement to police, police said...