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...arrived at Harvard this June to head a University police department still reeling from the extensive innovations of his predecessor, former police chief David L. Gorski. The old chief resigned amid controversy over a year ago, leaving police morale at an all-time low. Most of Harvard's 42 patrolmen worried, with good reason, about the future of the force, and with that their own jobs. Harvard, they feared, was out to cut the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) down to nothing but security guards. Gorski's organizational reforms made many cops wonder whether their ten or 15 years...
Those questions remain, but the threat of a sizing down of the force seems less ominous since Chafin's arrival. Patrolmen are, by and large, taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the department and its latest addition. Chafin, in turn, has asked for time to work out the problems existing within the department, and the members of the Harvard Police Association (HPA), the union representing the Harvard patrolmen, are giving him just that...
More often, police are victims of the rising freeway fury. Last year 413 California highway patrolmen were attacked and injured by people they had pulled over to the side of the road, up from 244 in 1973. The Los Angeles police report 364 incidents last year in which vehicles were used for assault...
...Chicago, Federal Judge Prentice Marshall had been scheduled to order a new promotion examination for city police patrolmen seeking to become sergeants. Marshall had previously ruled that the city's 1973 exam discriminated against blacks and other minorities, and he had ordered a minority hiring quota for new sergeants. But after the Bakke ruling, Attorney Norman Barry, represent-big 111 patrolmen who had passed the 1973 exam but lost out on promotion through imposition of the quota, argued that his clients deserved promotion before any new exam was ordered. Said he: "My people are victims of Judge Marshall...
...this Saturday morning, seven Ku Klux Klansmen are sitting at a table in the Holiday Inn coffeeshop eating grits and scrambled eggs. Wives and children have been put at smaller tables. Out behind the inn, a dozen Mississippi state highway patrolmen are clustered around the trunk of a car, joking and passing out bullets like jelly beans as they draw a day's supply of ammunition. "Did you count 'em? I give you 18, didn't I?" says one. "Now, you know I can't count," comes the reply. One of them tells me they...