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...University policeman cruises in a car around Radcliffe during the day, and from 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. he is joined by two foot patrolmen covering the grounds. They do not enter buildings unless specifically asked to do so. Three Radcliffe night watchmen, usually older men retired from some other job, patrol the basements and ground floors of the dormitories from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. At night, six men are responsible for the safety of 1200 girls in 22 dormitories stretching from near the Continental Hotel to the Observatory and almost to Mass...
...cops were spotted a few weeks ago. Atlanta cops have been known to seek out "pits," usually in lovers' lanes or in a tunnel beneath the city. Los Angeles policemen are occasionally caught dozing on a jail pallet or in a patrol car. Just last week two Chicago patrolmen were suspended briefly for sleeping while on duty. In Washington, where the custom is known as "huddling," many a drowsy cop is awakened only when headquarters activates the shrill buzzer on his walkie-talkie...
...rapped White for not consulting more extensively with Boston's conservative patrolmen's association in drafting the community-police provision He himself consulted with the group, and then revised the program to eliminate any official participation by the security patrols, which presently operate on an informal basis. The police have been given total law enforcement power in the area...
...rest of the networks had to fight logistics in Chicago that were just as trying as the run-ins with over-zealous patrolmen. A telephone strike, which many media people claimed was sustained to hamper news coverage of the convention, had crippled communications around the city. One vital consequence was that there could be no live coverage of events outside the convention itself. Everything NBC aired had to be video-taped and rushed back to tre network control booth in the amphitheatre...
Appointed Sheriff last February by Governor Volpe, after the death of the Democratic incumbent, Sears has innovated an imaginative "volunteer deputy" program to compensate for a lack of foot patrolmen in the city. His theory is that local leaders can cool a street fight or budding riot better than uniformed police, and people in Dorchester and Roxbury would undoubtedly agree...