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...motorcycle man suddenly gunned his engine and drove through the crowd. A white boy was caught under a plastic saddlebag and dragged several feet before the officer stopped. Immediately hands reached out and grabbed the policeman, pulling his heavy bulk towards the angry people. But the boy who had been run over jumped up and pushed the crowd back from the policeman...
...policeman stationed at the crosswalk between the kiosk and the Yard agreed that the buses slow traffic. "People are scared; all those big buses sit there and the car drivers can't see the traffic light. So they slow down...
Playing It Cool. The shift in Venezuela's political climate has been just as profound. Under the mercurial Betancourt, Venezuela erupted with fierce political loyalties and hatreds. It was a country where the governing A.D. party split into feuding factions, where Castroites at one time were killing a policeman a day. In his cool, quiet way, Leoni has put on a damper...
...decision incensed Chicago cops, and state legislators angrily talked impeachment. But Judge Leighton, a Negro, a noted former criminal lawyer, and a magna Harvard Law graduate, stood his ground. He insisted that "a policeman has no right to pull a gun unless he knows a felony is being committed." Carrying a broken beer bottle is no crime, said Leighton. Besides, "How do we know that these men, who are unable to speak English, said what these officers say they said?" Ruled Judge Leighton: "The right to resist unlawful arrest is a phase of self-defense...
...Balance. To bypass such complexities of arrest, some states have invented "pre-arrest detention." This device was designed to permit police to act on "reasonable suspicion" rather than the higher standard of "reasonable belief." Delaware, Rhode Island and New Hampshire have adopted the Uniform Arrest Act, which allows a policeman to stop, question, detain and frisk any person "whom he has reasonable ground to suspect" of having committed a crime. Unless there is probable cause for actual arrest, the person must be released after two hours...