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...interesting to note, in this regard, that until a few months ago the 250-man Cambridge Police Department had only five black members and now has only ten. There are no black sergeants, lieutenants or captains. Five black patrolmen recently instituted a civil suit against the City of Cambridge and the Police Department, charging discrimination in the recruitment and promotion procedures within the Police Department...
...complaint issued by the five black patrolmen states that: "Despite an unprecedented increase in reported serious crimes in Cambridge during the past eight years, city officials have both refused to substantially increase the number of black patrolmen and superior officers and have at the same time reduced the number of supervisory police personnel so as to avoid the promotions of the plaintiffs...
...alleged leader of the Black Liberation Army who is now awaiting trial for murder, and Fred Hilton, 21, reputed B.L.A. member who, with Chesimard, was acquitted of bank-robbery charges last year: a girl. The child, born in a Queens, N.Y., hospital while a contingent of uniformed patrolmen stood guard, was conceived in a detention room after Chesimard and Hilton were dragged out of the adjoining courtroom for disorderly conduct during their bank-robbing trial last December...
Letteri and other patrolmen think that there is not enough personnel on the force to adequately cover all of the grounds. Letteri suggests that a patrolman should always be stationed at Peabody Terrace, Holyoke Center, and the Graduate school of education. Since there are 15 routes to be covered for three shifts per day by the 52 patrolmen and some are always sick or on their off days, Letteri charges that routes are routinely undermanned...
Letteri said that three years ago the department had 62 patrolmen; now it has only 52. Other patrolmen also say that even the most sophisticated warning equipment must be backed up by the foot patrolman. "What good will a whistle do, if there is no patrolman around to respon?" one skeptical officer said...