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...Patrolmen, often the rawest, lowest paid, and least intelligent members of the force, are left with the other 99 per cent of police work, which Wilson dubs "order maintenance"--the usually tedious, sometimes dangerous duties of controlling restless teenagers on hot streets, of stepping into armed quarrels between lovers, of shepherding drunks. As Wilson sees it, the patrolman's lot is not a happy one. He pounds his beat alone or in pairs and doesn't enjoy the neat guidelines of the detective; "disorderly conduct," "creating a public nuisance," and other laws used to maintain order leave the patrolman with...
...necessity, to use a great amount of judgment in his work. Wilson argues that police administrators can at best instill a certain style of approaching order maintenance into their policemen and dress them down afterwards for their actions in specific cases, but they cannot tightly control their patrolmen's behavior on the street...
Green Cards. Wetbacks from Mexico have been entering the U.S. in a rising flood. Last month border patrolmen of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service seized more than 14,000-1,000 more than the monthly average. Thousands more filter past roadblocks and airplane spotters or wade the shallow Rio Grande in search of jobs as "stoop" laborers on farms. Most wetback workers make it across the border on their own. Illegal labor contractors smuggle others across...
...hacks of kiddie lit are already at work on Freedom Freak-Out: Nancy Drew Infiltrates the New Left or Our Summer Vacation: The Bobbsey Twins Win the Hearts and Minds of the Peasants, or even Black Beauty, the story of a ghetto girl who becomes the belle of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association ball...
...dome light flashing behind him did not belong to some friendly police car escorting him to a movie premiere. So Hollywood's Burt Lancaster pulled up his red Mercury and was approached by a pair of California highway patrolmen, who informed him that he had been driving at 55 m.p.h. in a 45-m.p.h. zone. O.K., Mac, here's a ticket. Burt refused to accept it, explaining: "I want to get an education." He was taken to the county jail in Los Angeles, where he refused to post the $65 bail and spent the night in a cell...