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...Donald Cawley, who was promoted past 72 others with more seniority. He reached out of the city to appoint a former chief of police from Long Island to head a new criminal-justice bureau. A wave of resentment swept through the station houses; Edward J. Kiernan, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, accused Murphy of "the systematic destruction of the finest police department in the world...
...months. He handed out promotions to 29 generals and admirals. He also decided to appoint Colonel Nguyen Khac Binh, head of South Viet Nam's CIA-like Central Intelligence Organization, to oversee the national police. Binh will thus have at his command 200,000 armed men, including, besides patrolmen and traffic cops, the much-feared secret police...
...idea is still something of a pipedream. But as New York City's problems multiply, its residents increasingly resent the spectacle of their elected officials pleading with smalltown legislators for permission to change the shift schedules of city patrolmen, retain rent control or decentralize schools. Albany's death grip over how the city raises and spends its own money is an even more serious matter. Thus the merits of independence cannot be airily dismissed. Lindsay's appointment of a commission to study statehood is not really as "childish" as Governor Nelson Rockefeller suggests...
...murders, as well as the ambush and wounding of two other New York City patrolmen only days before, have prompted both thoughtless and thoughtful responses. Edward J. Kiernan, president of the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, advised "every member assigned to a radio car to purchase a shotgun, keep it loaded," and, if need be, "shoot to kill...
...Patrolmen came in and "turned and fired into the park area-simultaneously as they fired into the dormitory," Having made their point, they picked up their cartridge shells and filed a report, as fictional as Faulkner, that spoke of snipers on the roof tops and an uppity nigger beneath every bush. From time to time during the attack, Jackson students had waved white flags as they came out of cover to collect the dead and mutilated...