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...nicknamed their balding chief "Elmer Fudd" in washroom graffiti. San Francisco's new police chief removed the American flag to make his office less formal, and small flags defiantly sprouted on squad-car antennas. The Orange County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in Florida gives its members a policeman's "Miranda card," outlining not the rights of criminal suspects but the officer's own rights if he is investigated by his department. Rank-and-file cops in San Diego hired Teamsters professionals for $150,000 to negotiate their contract, and the Chicago Patrolmen's Association...
...police morale. Since then, however, the eight-year Republican Administration has pumped $5 billion through the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, much of it to improve local police departments. Under Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Supreme Court has decidedly tilted back toward the prosecution side. By many measures, the policeman's lot today would seem to be a happier...
...Peter Runkle reports that a number of cops he has seen from the force in Sacramento, Calif., have impotence problems, "usually the men who do the best job in the streets." The physical dangers of the job are almost the least of it. "We expect that," says New York Policeman Ronald De Vito. "But seeing the people we deal with-the sick, the underprivileged children, the old, the maimed-and being eaten up because we cannot help, that is the most dangerous part...
...unchallenging. After a half-a-film full of perfunctory purloining, he hopes to gain fresh inspiration from a legendary thief, Cannonier, recently released from Devil's Island. But Cannonier has gone off on a revolutionary tangent, and for all his Marxian trouble gets shot in the back by a policeman. There seems to be no romance in crime anymore: soon Belmondo's partner quits and the priest, LaMargelle, starts making disillusioned noises...
Although Harvard pays little property tax, it is provided with a full range of municipal services, he said. While there are at least 12 uniformed Cambridge police officers in Harvard square at all times, there is only a single policeman in Inman Square...