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...city's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association offers not toasters or blenders, but pocket cans of spray repellent. Newly acquired Doberman guard dogs growl inside increasing numbers of Bade County homes; sales of sophisticated burglar alarm systems and rudimentary iron bars for doors are booming. Says a Miami policeman: "Sometimes I think I'm in Dodge City...
...until all the volunteers in the neighborhood are notified. Armed with pencils and notebooks instead of .38s, the crime watchers jot down details of the crime and suspects before the police arrive. Local authorities give the program high marks. "It's fantastic," says one South Miami policeman. "I wish I had a hundred of them." And without guns, the C.C.W. manages to be the area's most genuine example of law and order...
Prior to the board meeting, police warned Parrent and Peck that an attempt to enter would be a violation of the state trespass act and asked them to leave. When they refused to leave and tried to enter, a policeman "grabbed Parrent's arm and began dragging him away," the Daily reported. The two then were placed under arrest and led out of the building...
...Saturday night, November 1st, I went to Brighams with a group of gay male students after the finish of a Halloween dance. An intoxicated man reacted with hostility to the fact that two of our group were dressed in cross-gender attire. Before being removed by a policeman who happened to walk in, he struck two people and reinforced in many others the belief that it is important to avoid at all costs "appearing gay" in public. We were all reminded that anyone who is identified as gay is extremely vulnerable to attack. Walking home--in a group, for safety...
...conclusion that the pleasures of romance are always messy and impermanent. In time, she attempts suicide by overdosing on pills, whereupon the psychiatrist behaves rather badly. He delays his response to her call for help and then commits what the investigating policeman (Harvey Keitel) calls "ravishment" on her drugged and defenseless person...