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...have been transferred in the past two months. Since fast response produces fast arrests?one of the few workable crime deterrents?Wilson has installed an elaborate computer system that pinpoints high-crime blocks for more efficient patrolling. In the most turbulent areas, he has increased the saturation of foot patrolmen. Using two-way radios ($875 each), officers can question the computers about a suspect's record and get an answer in one minute. Wilson pays radio dispatchers bonuses for instant action; one man recently got $350 for particularly fast descriptions that snagged five fleeing robbers. He also monitors the traffic...
...keep lines open to the city's blacks, Wilson attends community meetings about three evenings a week. He has increased the number of black patrolmen on his force, from 25% two years ago to 35% now?including two deputy chiefs. Nearly half his rookies in training are black. But, unlike other police chiefs, he has downplayed mere public relations. He knows only too well that a chief's lectures to community groups can be quickly undercut by incidents like one last year in which a white policeman fatally shot a black robbery suspect. The victim turned...
...courage, subordinates have been known to blunt his directives. His order to avoid minor arrests during the November demonstrations was never announced to the cops in one district?they read about it in the newspapers. When he publicly criticized his men for overreacting to unruly demonstrators recently, the Washington Patrolmen's Association passed a resolution suggesting that he was not backing them...
...been unable to change hidebound promotion policies that, critics charge, still give credit for blood donations but not for educational advancement. Because the finest stubbornly protect one another, Mayor John Lindsay recently appointed a special citizens' commission to investigate the extent of police graft ?and thereby provoked the patrolmen's association into trying to block the probe in court...
...recruited from the armed services or the ghettos are making cops more representative of the people they serve, a few have brought bellicose attitudes and drug problems with them. Chief Wilson's force has its share of both. Other difficulties can be formidable: In New York and California, black patrolmen are threatening to arrest white officers who allegedly beat...