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Contagious Example. Edward Kiernan, president of New York's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, finds the attacks "part of a cold, logical, hard-eyed revolutionary strategy." Berkeley's Chief Bruce Baker thinks that a militant sees headlines about ambushes of police and concludes: "I'd better get in on this." Between the two views-the conspiracy theory and the suggestion that attacks on cops are only isolated and unrelated-Dr. John Spiegel, director of Brandeis University's Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence, sees something in the middle. He believes that an incident...
Within minutes, sniper fire broke out all around the Southmoor. A police helicopter with a searchlight moved in to illuminate rooftops. Foot patrolmen and detectives rushed into the area. Police ordered all streetlights turned off in a four-block area of the Woodlawn neighborhood so they would be less exposed. "Out there, everything is the enemy," said one detective as he looked out toward Jackson Park. "The night, the park, the abandoned buildings, the people-everything...
...force was founded in 1938 exclusively to patrol highways. But when the civil rights movement focused on Mississippi in 1964, the legislature gave patrolmen full power to enforce "all the laws of the state," including those supporting segregation. In 1965, the patrol handled the transfer of 250 civil rights workers to the Parchman State Penitentiary after they were arrested in Natchez. According to a lawsuit now before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the troopers encouraged harsh treatment of the prisoners, who were stripped and forced to take strong laxatives; one testified that she was made to use her slip...
This spring's shooting at Jackson State was not the first on that campus. Three years ago, highway patrolmen fired their shotguns in warning, they said, over the heads of rock-throwing students; Ben Brown, a married student and father of a young child, was found with mortal wounds from 00 buckshot...
...meeting, the informal group discussed what measures it could ask the City Council to take at its meeting Thursday. The group, now representing the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association, met Thursday morning and asked the City Manager to do three things: provide more foot patrolmen round the clock in the Square and on the sidestreets: enforce ordinances covering panhandling and unlicensed hawking of crafts and newspapers; and ban large gatherings anywhere in the Harvard Square area...