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...French policemen, the kepi was never the most practical of headgear. It had a tendency to fall off when the wearer chased a fleeing criminal, and it did not keep the rain off the neck. Still, an era ended earlier this month when the kepi began disappearing from the heads of police in Paris and elsewhere. The round, pillbox cap is being replaced by a flat-topped, short-beaked hat of the style worn by U.S. police...
...mixed-race couple, Gerald and Carol Fox, who had moved into Elmwood with their two children at about the same time as Williams and Bloxom--and endured much of the same abuse--did decide to stay. But their home is guarded by plainclothes policemen, and Carol Fox admits, "I get scared sometimes. I think about it when I go to bed at night...
...television viewers know, crime in Miami revolves around the cocaine trade. But the policemen who are supposed to put dopers behind bars are not often like TV's cool, sockless heroes with stern moral codes. Christmas week brought more grim tidings of internal vice in the Miami police department. First, the city's tough-talking, Stetson-wearing police chief, Clarence Dickson, announced that two former officers had been charged with stealing 150 lbs. of cocaine. Less than 24 hours later, four additional Miami policemen were arrested in connection with an ugly coke deal that led to three deaths last summer...
Through wiretaps, investigators learned that the gang had included active-duty Miami policemen. Lawmen nabbed four officers and two civilians last week. A former Miami officer is being sought as a suspected accomplice. Three of the policemen face murder charges, as well as counts of racketeering, robbery, cocaine trafficking and aggravated battery...
...freed inmates, including 23 well-known local businessmen accused of belonging to Akromiya, an offshoot of the banned Islamist party Hizb ut Tahrir. The men, who denied charges of extremism, quickly emerged as leaders of the revolt. Addressing the nation Saturday, Karimov said the rebels were Islamic extremists. Ten policemen had been killed, while the "criminals" had suffered "many more" casualties, he added. Meanwhile, Saidjakhon Zainabitdinov, a lawyer and leader of a human-rights group in Andijan, told Time that "hundreds" of civilians had been killed. Several thousand more reportedly fled for the Kyrgyz border. The rebels denied they were...