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...Sobel-Whitney trial went on all day yesterday as Sobel faced charges of disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace, and Whitney charges of assault and battery on a policeman and disorderly conduct...
James Smith, a black Omaha policeman, puts it this way: "The whites say we don't enforce the law, that we let everybody go. The blacks say we're just doing the white man's dirty work." Adds one veteran black policeman, now a federal official: "The black cop is being told to choose between the department and the black community. He is choosing the community." But the pattern is mixed. While many black cops feel they must fight for their black fellow citizens against what they often see as the incomprehension and aggression of white cops...
...Badge Is Enough. Many black policemen echo Renault Robinson's complaint in Chicago: "The police department is basically concerned with protecting white property, not the safety and well-being of black people." Often the accepted way for a black policeman to get ahead has been to accumulate a record of harsh treatment of his own people; there are countless tales of brutal beatings of black suspects by black cops in dark alleys, paddy wagons and station-house cells...
...special hostility between black cops and black criminals is not hard to account for. In times past, says James Draper, a Cleveland narcotics detective, the black community respected a black policeman "because he was a symbol of someone who made it." Now, "generally, a black policeman doesn't boast about his occupation. The job is dangerous enough, and there are some elementsyou may not know them immediatelythat don't see color. The badge is enough." In Detroit last month in front of the headquarters of a group associated with the Black Panthers, one black...
...Angeles' Oscar Joel Bryant Association, named after a black policeman killed on duty, succeeded in obtaining the transfer of a captain and a community relations officer whom it demonstrated to be insensitive to the needs of Venice, a Los Angeles district populated largely by blacks, Chicanos and hippies. According to one Bryant Association organizer, Police Chief Edward Davis has been "amenable to manyI wouldn't say mostof our ideas...