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Another time I rode with a shooting victim who had been shot in the leg by a policeman from my own section. The victim's entire family was there at the hospital and not, understandably, gazing any too fondly on the police profession. Their gaze focused...
After a hundred or more vain searches in my first year as a policeman (I made my share of arrests, but none on flash lookouts), I ran into two Marines last month who had just been robbed, and began to question them. They eventually came up with a mediocre description of two of the subjects who had robbed them, and a first-rate description of the third. So I went off with another officer who, like myself, was riding a motor scooter, and cruised the area. And about fifteen minutes later, after searching up and down several likely streets...
...with him, although you quickly learn to identify those situations where unanimity comes in handy. The college-educated rookie has to makecertain compromises (more of form, I think, than substance) to get along; but so do all rookies. The Washington force is sufficiently mixed up that even the insurgent policeman is one among many insurgents. (A black officer in my section was recently chewed out for wearing an earring at roll-call.) Occasionally the dissident officer gets axed by the system; just as often he appeals to the top echelons and wins his case...
When I was lounging around training school, impatient but apprehensive, I agonized over my ability to behave like a policeman, in the sense and to the degree that all policemen must behave like policemen. But the first time I was put out on the street by myself-for sixteen hours of traffic direction the day of the Kent State-Cambodia demonstration last spring. I found that the uniform did half my work or me. People look at you, think you're a policeman, and you are. On the day of that relatively benign assembly. I was one of scores...
...lames Lardner '69 will answer questions about being a policeman assist potential applicants and ward off hecklers at 7:30 Monday night. March 29, in the Adams House Junior Common Room...