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Sophoclean Horror. First policeman on the scene was Patrolman Daniel Kelly, who, by tragic coincidence, had known Gloria Davy and used to date her sister Charlene. Said another officer: "The bodies were piled up like in a Nazi prison camp." It was indeed a scene of Sophoclean horror. A pool of blood glistened on the floor of one bedroom. In another, a torn, blood-soaked bed comforter lay under a two-piece yellow-and-white bathing suit that had been hung up to dry. The pages of a mimeographed lecture ("The Mental Mechanisms for Ego Defense") were strewn about...
...warm July afternoon in 1964, off-duty New York City Policeman Samuel Lasky heard a noise outside his apartment door in suburban Mount Vernon. Two strangers were tiptoeing down the hall. Lasky hurriedly grabbed his pistol and managed to collar one, John F. Peters, who protested that he was merely visiting a married girl friend in the building. Not impressed, Lasky frisked Peters and felt something that "could have been a knife." What Lasky actually found was an envelope containing burglar's tools-for possession of which Peters was duly convicted...
Beyond that, by a vote of 5 to 2, the court specifically upheld New York's controversial "stop and frisk" law, which empowers a policeman not only to "pat down" a suspect for concealed weapons in any public place, but also to seize "any other" illegal objects that he finds in the process...
...they "reasonably suspect" of committing or being about to commit a felony or serious misdemeanor. They justified the frisk on grounds of elemental safety. As the New York Court of Appeals put it in a key 1964 case (People v. Rivera): "The answer to the question propounded by the policeman may be a bullet...
...piece about Chicago Daily News Columnist Royko [July 1] recalls the fact that in Cleveland, we have a street named Kosciuszko. There is a story that a policeman stopped in the station, told his superior there was a dead horse on Kosciuszko. The officer said, "Well, make out your report." The policeman, a poor speller, disappeared. After an hour, he came back disheveled and out of breath. His officer demanded to know where he had been. Replied he: "I moved the horse to 79th Street...