Word: plainclothesmen
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...Germany where she has been for more than two years. Around noon I and my American friend Jack Strickland left Elizabeth's apartment in a VW camper bus to return to West Berlin via the crossing Checkpoint Charlie. We were run off the road by two carloads of eight plainclothesmen, presumably Secret Police, although they never identified themselves as they poured into the doors and windows of the camper and hustled...
...Adams, the nutball hero of Get Smart!, a golden oldie of the sitcom form, returns as author and star of a derivative series with the same lunatic intensity and sporadically hilarious style. This time, Adams and a new partner, droll black Actor Rupert Crosse (The Reivers), are bungling plainclothesmen. Inevitably, they do not play as freshly or score as often as old Agents 99 and 86, but would you believe...
...With customary élan, the police joined the fray. Captain Daniel McGowan of the Public Morals Task Force was assigned to the new post of "Director of Prostitution Control." Patrols in the area were beefed up with plainclothesmen borrowed from the gambling detail and men of the mobile Tactical Patrol Force, many armed with cameras to capture the girls in the act of soliciting. There were also efforts to discourage, through arrests, the live sex shows that complement the streetside spectacle, and some talk, mostly just that, of prosecuting "Johns," as the girls call their customers. Finally, the police established...
...independent five-man panel known as the Knapp Commission, formed as a direct result of information provided by Serpico, is due to report its findings next month. Insiders say that the commission will charge that 60% of New York policemen are on the take. Among certain elite units of plainclothesmen and detectives that are responsible for investigating such areas as gambling and narcotics, the report is expected to say, the corruption rate is between 99% and 100%. Serpico, as a matter of fact, was one of the tiny minority that was untainted...
...four city plainclothesmen were accompanied by two Harvard patrolmen and Bruce MacPherson, the resident tutor in Briggs...