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...morale, bitter because of what it took to be still one more instance of political opportunism--at its expense, humiliated by sweeping public allegations against its professional honor: Integrity in the law. (Until proved, the cruelest allegation against a professor is sophistry; against a fighter, cowardice; against a policeman crime.) Cardinal Cushing's wisdom lay in restoring honor to the force, without which the force has no professional use. The limitation of his wisdom lay in the short-term, immediate nature of his aid and the unsolved problems it does not address...
...which he simply was not qualified to pronounce. Unfortunately, the Cardinal has done more than speak out of turn; like the Protestant ministers who shouted loudly that police corruption is intolerable, he has helped to revive Boston's saddest and oldest religiously based controversy. The prelate and the policeman in his diocese can still remember when signs were hung announcing that "Drunken Irish need not apply." Their memories are even more vivid and bitter when, seemingly without discrimination, their officals are called corrupt and vicious. Cardinal Cushing's wrath is easy to understand, but his resurrection of religious distrust will...
Another theatrical traffic jam may develop in the Square this spring unless someone quickly decides to play the policeman. Seven shows have already been definitely planned, and more will soon be scheduled...
Soon after Stalin's death, Beria's colleagues became leary of Lavrenty. With a vast private army of secret police and 15 divisions of elite troops, the ambitious policeman was in a perfect position to grab control. After tailing Beria for a few weeks, the Party Presidium realized that his coup could come any moment, and so they decided to spring the trap. Acting Party Boss Khrushchev buttonholed Marshal Kirill S. Moskalenko, then commandant of the Moscow antiaircraft defenses, asked him bluntly: "Have you some men who are willing to risk their lives?" Replied Moskalenko: "I have...
Code of Dishonor. Among Denver's cops there was a code of dishonor that prevented the honest policeman from informing on his criminal companions. The cop who reported to his superiors found himself ostracized. More often than not, he found himself stripped of privileges, walking a boondock beat-or harried out of a job. Even before he turned to active crime, Jerry Sanford investigated a supermarket safecracking, found a night stick on the floor. "I picked it up and put it in my car. I'm not going to fink...