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...issue of law and order which inspired the bitterest the Mayor and the Police Department had been bad ever since the Glenville riots when, after several policemen had been killed, stokes ordered all patrolmen out of the area. The move was successful in preventing more deaths, but the wholesale looting that followed the withdrawal of law enforcement officials angered many whites. The deep-seated antipathy between white policemen and blacks which has now become the norm was increased. During the 1969 election non-uniformed uninformed policemen with guns dangling openly at their sides served as challengers at the polls...
...become a subject of controversy throughout the Deep South. Terrill Glenn, a former U.S. attorney in South Carolina, told the conference that the FBI had not conducted any meaningful investigation of the shootings of four black students at Orangeburg, S.C. because the agents were close friends with the Highway Patrolmen who had done the shooting. Andrew Young, a veteran SCLC organizer, told the conference that civil rights groups had met with an outstanding lack of success in seeking FBI investigation of harassment beatings and shootings of civil rights workers in the deep South because the Bureau was unwilling to invade...
...Burkert decided to do what the cops wanted him to do-but for the benefit of the Knapp Commission. Properly wired, he made a series of payoffs to the police, climaxed by a $30 bribe handed to two patrolmen right outside a station house. The transaction was filmed by a TV camera crew in a panel truck. The cops spotted the camera and pursued the truck. They managed to stop it, but let it go after the "producer" said they were only filming street scenes. Still, the cops were worried. What if the crew had been working for the Knapp...
...seriously after a 25-year-old former cop, Edward Droge Jr., was called as a witness late in the week. After four years on the force, Droge left the department earlier this year to continue his education at the University of Southern California. He testified that of the 70 patrolmen he had known at the 80th precinct in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, only two were not on the take. Despite the fact that Droge won eight citations, he casually accepted payoffs in cash or weapons. Gamblers would throw a roll of bills through a window into the back...
Edward Kiernan, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, branded Phillips a "greedy thief." Most cops, while not denying much of what Phillips said, felt that he had given them all a bad name at a time when they need public respect more than ever. "If I made as much money as Phillips said," scoffed one detective, "I'd be living in a palatial estate in Westchester." Complained a subway cop: "Down here in the hole, how the hell can you take any graft? There's no freebies underground. But as far as the public is concerned...