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Street crime, Wilson concedes, is less tractable. His basic approach is to flood difficult areas with highly qualified, tightly supervised patrolmen. His force is still 500 men short of its authorized strength of 5,100, but Wilson has intensified recruiting?in part by using a Pentagon program that releases servicemen five months early if they sign up to be cops. Thanks to his extensive lobbying before Congress, starting salaries have been raised to $8,500 (his own salary is $28,500). Wilson
After the Army, Stanley drifted into college on the G.I. Bill. He dropped out just as easily to join the police force after aiding three patrolmen who had been attacked by a street mob. Being a policeman is simply a job. Stanley performs it with the same detached competence he displayed shooting Vietnamese. But the civil service turns out not to be the secure coop it once was. Racism and radical politics have besieged its encrusted prerogatives and cherished prejudices. Many policemen respond to the situation by joining Alamo, an unofficial organization dedicated to superpatriotism and the myth...
...younger, often college-educated, and trained to handle every campus crime from riot to robbery. At Detroit's Wayne State, few of the 35 patrolmen have reached their 30th birthday, and all hold at least one college degree. In addition to full-time police duties, they take night courses toward a master's degree in liberal-arts subjects, and most take advanced courses in police science as well. "Students know about our degrees," says Wayne State's Lieut. Dick Leonard, a Michigan State graduate, "and realize we've had the same problems they have...
...jazzman has this thing with the fuzz. Last October, Brooklyn patrolmen arrived to help him out after someone creased his hip with a bullet and ended up arresting him for possessing pot. This time Manhattan cops just wanted to see his driver's license. As Trumpeter Miles Davis rummaged through a bag looking for the license, out fell a pair of brass knuckles. Though it is a felony to carry knucks in New York, the judge let Davis off with a $100 fine for driving without a license...
Though outnumbered, state patrolmen and sheriff's deputies took the offensive. But after a ten-minute rock barrage, they retreated, leaving a patrol car behind. The students set it afire. Meanwhile, the bank burned to the ground-a $275,000 loss...