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...member Charles Stead suggested that the City put foot patrolmen in the black areas around the clock and stop the "highballing"--speeding of trucks--along streets in black areas...
Perhaps realizing that they needed a little experienced help, the new junta, including not only sergeants but privates and police patrolmen as well, summoned home Colonel John Bangura, a counselor in Sierra Leone's Washington embassy, to head an interim ruling council. As second in command, the junta brought home Lieut. Colonel Patrick Genda, the ambassador to Liberia. As they arrived in Freetown, both men were greeted by happy crowds clutching signs that read "Welcome to Freedom" and "Welcome, Our Saviors...
...most part, only the less adept or mobile were caught. Seeing police take a stance of calculated restraint, adults joined in the pillage. Often cops stood by without hindering looters. In New York City, lone patrolmen sometimes were ordered to ignore the plundering and avert traffic backups that could make riot scenes more perilous. In Pittsburgh, one eager bargain seeker stocked up a shopping cart at a looted supermarket, rolled it out into an alley, bumped into a cop and asked blandly: "Is this the way to the checkout counter...
Routine police procedure provided the invitation to bloodshed. Two patrolmen investigating a parked car in a West Oakland slum were sent reeling by shotgun pellets. While they radioed for help, eight Negroes sprinted for a run-down frame house on 28th Street. For the next 90 minutes, they traded shots with police. A tear-gas cannister set a small fire. There was a cry of surrender from the dwelling, where walls and windows were splintered by more than 150 bullets. Out into a search light's glare emerged 17-year-old Bobby J. Hutton, the Panthers' treasurer. Retching...
...concentration" meant that 50 extra patrolmen, plus extra cars and motorcycles, were assigned to high-crime areas. Officers cruised in squads of three -in uniform, but without caps and in unmarked cars during the highest crime hours. But would that be enough? The answer was yes, at first. In January, the city's robbery rate dropped 45%, from 299 to 163. In the high-crime areas, the rate went down...