Word: plainclothesman
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...university officials presented the dissidents with two alternatives: vacate the building or be suspended. About half of the revolutionaries marched outside; the rest, including Rudd, stayed on and were later taken into custody by police who moved in through underground tunnels. Rudd himself was arrested by a long-haired plainclothesman who, passing as a protester, had mingled with the students and won their confidence...
...than in America. But when a young man is sent to Federal penitentiary for agreeing to sell marijuana to an insistent hippie-policeman, or when a pseudo-member of a Columbia radical group suddenly flashes his badge and arrests the group's leader, it seems clear that the American plainclothesman too, has his repressive uses...
More importantly, the disguising of the police can only serve to create mistrust and suspicion between people. And this cannot be justified solely by the argument that plainclothesman help to catch lawbreakers. Law enforcement must always serve the law itself, and the ultimate purpose of the law should be to promote security and cohesion between all members of society...
Earlier yesterday two Boston police served a verbal warrant to Bob Roman and Gary Senderoff, owner of the Like Nothing Else store on Charles St. Roman, who works in the store, said that he sold a plainclothesman a copy of the Avatar on Tuesday...
...role of the Police inevitably involved them in some cops and robbery. Campus police will ask trespassers for identification, and if necessary make arrests and support their action in court. Tonis' force also takes responsibility for investigating thefts in the University, and Captain Walsh, the single captain, is a plainclothesman whose special job is inquiring into stolen property...