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Then Murphy called 400 administrative heads of the force to a meeting in the barnlike line-up room at Headquarters, and kicked every last one of the city's 336 plainclothesmen back into uniform. It was the most drastic police shake-up in history. But Murphy made it plain that this was only a beginning. "In every instance where corruption exists," he warned, "the commanding officer . . . will be carefully investigated...
Where two months' ago military policemen had patrolled the streets in pairs, they now marched in groups of four, with two of them holding their cocked Mausers under their arms, barrels level, ready to shoot. To reinforce the brown-uniformed "chocolate soldiers," hordes of plainclothesmen roamed the streets. Just in case any bogotanos did not get the idea, the army had held maneuvers in Bogota last month, and had "taken the city" in 40 minutes...
Before Captain Flynn's widow and two of his three children marched an imposing procession-the police band, a color guard, 6,000 uniformed cops and plainclothesmen (one-third of the city's entire force). Present at the service in the Roman Catholic Church of the Ascension were the police glee club, which sang the Requiem Mass, the six Catholic, Jewish and Protestant police department chaplains, Police Commissioner William O'Brien and other top-ranking police officials, and, looking grim, Mayor O'Dwyer himself...
...four masked men were then escorted from the Common by three plainclothesmen, a lieutenant, a captain, four sergeants, and several patrolmen. The College men were not booked, presumably because the police could not decide on any charge...
While Harvard Square is one of Greater Boston's cleanest, it nevertheless sustains a handful of punks who make their living exclusively on bookmaking. Police assert that a certain "gentleman" operates openly from a table in a large cafeteria on Massachusetts Avenue. Plainclothesmen have kept an eye on him for a long time, but they can't touch this pimply-faced operator because he uses the prevalent "telephone" system. This means that he either stands outside or sits inside the cafeteria with a pocketfull of nickels, and phones in bets as soon as they are given to him. The mere...