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...list is continued, patrolmen could be promoted without having to retake the civil service exam in competition with new patrolmen...
Seven Cambridge patrolmen asked the Middlesex Superior Court April 30 to extend the police department's current civil service list, which ranks patrolmen for promotion, for another 13 months...
...crime increases in spite of police, prisons, and public and private government. For a long time, and to our great disadvantage, we clung to the myth that there was a bureaucratic or governmental alternative to familial and communal virtue, that what parents, neighbors, and friends had failed to do, patrolmen, wardens, counselors and psychiatrists could provide. We struggled to maintain the hope that the police and schools could prevent crime and that prisons and treatment programs could rehabilitate criminals...
Eaves has pushed a number of new tactics, with the help of federal funds from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. A squad of cops disguised as tramps and winos was set up to lure muggers, and high-crime areas were assigned a special force of additional patrolmen. Says Eaves: "We're trying to become as unpredictable for the criminal as the criminal...
...Recently, a student saw a man rummaging through rooms on the third floor of 8 Prescott St., a freshman dorm. The student phoned the police just as the man became frightened and started running down the stairs. When the man opened the door to Prescott St., two Task Force patrolmen were waiting for him. Meanwhile, upstairs, the student was still on the phone with the Harvard Police headquarters in Grays Hall. In fact, if the Harvard cops are not around when you need them, they will be soon; the average response time for the University, including the Medical Area...