Word: policework
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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Alturnative action is something that Blaney personally never needed Policework is "something I wanted to do for a long time, since high school," she explains. She and a hometown friend from Newton. Mass joined a local Boy Scout Police Explorer post in 1972 when the national program became coeducational. In 1976, she joined the Harvard department as a radio dispatcher because at 19. "I was too young to take the civil service exam...
...physical requirements of policework do not frighten her. "They teach you at the academy not to use your hands, to use the equipment you're issued," she says of possible confrontations, adding that she is "as qualified to use a baton...
...Nobody ever calls you when they're be having themselves. As a rule, you always get called when people are at their worst. It's sad. It depresses me." Yet they go on doing the best that they can. The tedious side of policework rarely figures in TV serials or bestselling novels. Midnights offers a healthy antidote to all those shoot-'em-ups, a reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly heroic . -By Paul Gray
...While good policework does have a great deal to do with the fact that terrorism is not widespread in our city, the main reason is that the local populace does not support terrorist activities. Our economic welfare depends to a large extent on tourism, and tourism does not go with terrorism. In Jerusalem's Arab community, fear of the P.L.O. is stronger than dislike...
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