Word: plainclothesmen
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...semilegendary hero to the I.R.A. gunmen, he had eluded capture by the British for more than two years-a fact that spawned his nickname, "Joe the Fox." It was said that he had shot as many as 15 British soldiers. McCann's luck ran out when police plainclothesmen spotted him in a narrow Belfast thoroughfare called Joy Street. As he tried to run, he was shot and killed by soldiers...
...Pentagon (TIME, April 5), network news crews began prowling side streets and ducking behind bushes. They were not trying to lie low under the barrage of criticism from Pentagon brass and their congressional supporters. Rather they were at work filming another documentary titled Under Surveillance. They managed to photograph plainclothesmen photographing antiwar demonstrators, shadowed FBI agents shadowing a young radical, interviewed 50 people about how they monitor or are monitored by others...
University Police officers will make extra checks throughout dormitory areas during Thanksgiving recess, and plainclothesmen have been assigned to the Houses. They will ask persons they encounter too show proof of their University affiliation...
...early September, two plain-clothesmen entered the office of the Foundation and without identifying themselves told the receptionist that they wanted to see Hakim. Hakim, who had been in a meeting in another room, came out. When he did, the plainclothesmen drew their guns. It is not clear whether or not they also identified themselves at this point. In any event. Hakim fled from their guns, and the receptionist raced into the room where the meeting was going on. She screamed. "There's some white men trying to shoot Malik." By this time, the people in the room had caught...
...corrupt cops take what they can get and leave the moralizing to others. Depending on where he is stationed in the city, a plainclothesman can make from $400 to $1,500 a month for protecting the rackets. With luck he can make much more. Phillips told of three Queens plainclothesmen who split $80,000 that they picked up in a narcotics raid. Phillips testified that he knew of no plainclothesman assigned to gambling who was not on the take after two months...