Word: policemanly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most individuals, the first brush with the law begins as an encounter with the police. Yet few citizens realize the policeman's true power, the wide area in which he must exercise his discretion, the largely undefined range of his authority. "Crime does not look the same on the street as it does in a legislative chamber," explains the commission. Police do most of their work in tense, fast-moving situations that have few similarities to a calm court of law. And there are no easy prescriptions for any part of a policeman's immensely varied job. "Keeping...
Beyond all that, lax gun laws help to ensure that a policeman's life is always on the line. Clearly, the U.S. expects a great deal from its law enforcers-and gives them little. Everywhere in the country, police facilities are understaffed, policemen are underpaid and inadequately trained. To make matters worse, outmoded traditions require all novice policemen, no matter what their education or skill, to start their careers alike-at the bottom. As a result, it is almost impossible to recruit the college graduates and specialists so desperately needed to combat today's sophisticated criminals...
...traffic cop who recalls him as "very courteous." He conferred normal ly with an English professor, then walked into a grocery store, phoned a girl in Mississippi he barely knew and asked her to marry him. "I am intoxicated with love," Hall said. He began crying and laughing; a policeman was called, and drove him home. Later, Hall spoke wildly to his landlady, Mrs. Aline Johnson, and started kicking the door between their apartments. Shortly be fore midnight, Mrs. Johnson called the police, and three officers arrived. "I wish you'd just talk to him," she said...
...Nguyen Van Be is alive and in a South Vietnamese jail. When he was captured ten months ago, he was taken to a jail in the delta town of My Tho (there were no prisoner-of-war camps in the region at the time). Recently, an alert South Vietnamese policeman noticed the strong resemblance between the jumbo photos of Be in the Hanoi press and a rather withdrawn Viet Cong prisoner in a corner cell. Astounded to hear of his courageous exploits, Be soon saw the wisdom of his interrogators' assurance that he was valuable to the Viet Cong...
...outside pickets called their demonstration "supporting action" for Israel. When they arrived at 7 a.m., they approached the base gate and were immediately herded back off federal property by a Boston policeman...