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...stem the tide of violent crimes, University officials this summer approved three major programs. First, Harvard Police will be beefed up by the addition of four foot patrolmen and possibly an expensive, new communications system. Second, eight high-intensity lights will be installed in the Radcliffe Yard, and new lighting systems are being designed for the Yard. Finally, the University is offering frank advice to students about crime for the first time. That advice is contained in the two new booklets distributed at registration...
ROLL CALL, 7:07 a.m. The Hill Street precinct comes to disorder. Detectives, patrolmen and patrolwomen, officers and desk jockeys shuffle through the squad room, find seats, swallow some coffee and try to ignore the day ahead. Sergeant Phillip Freemason Esterhaus (Michael Conrad), a mountain of meat and gristle with a smile that could crack ice, is briefing his charges on the new day's agenda. "I'd like to interject a personal observation," he announces. "It seems that we've reached a new low, graffiti-wise, in both the men's and women...
...policemen learn," Wambaugh writes, "life imitates not art but melodrama," and he enlivens his dense tale with vivid examples. His heroes carom off two patrolmen dubbed "street monsters" for their appetite for violence; a Marine posing for gay sculptors; the Ferret and the Weasel, a pair of frenzied narcs; a Vietnamese assassin; Tuna Can Tommy, a flasher with a phenomenal physique; and a massage-parlor hostess called Jackin Jill...
...limit appears headed for a stretch of rough pavement. Bills to raise or circumvent the speed limit are under consideration in more than a score of state legislatures, particularly in the West, where ornery "sagebrush rebellion" sentiment fuels anger at all kinds of federal impositions. In some states, highway patrolmen are looking the other way as speeders pass. In others, such as Texas and California, fast drivers greatly outnumber police available to stop them. Last week in Nevada, a state consisting almost entirely of wide open spaces, the Governor signed a bill that makes speeders caught going no more than...
Sometimes they are at the beach alone, but on nice days friendly joggers stop by to shoot the breeze, and the beat patrolmen more often than not spend their lunch hours with "the boys...