Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most promising signs of future racial progress is the way in which growing numbers of blacks unite behind black political candidates. Working at precinct and small-town levels, blacks are seizing levers of local power in city halls, county seats, school boards and sheriffs' offices. Without broad black backing, Richard Hatcher could not have been elected mayor of Gary, Ind., nor could Carl Stokes have been twice chosen mayor of Cleveland...
This case history-and hundreds more like it-comes from Manhattan's 30th Police Precinct, which must keep order in an unruly and explosively overcrowded ghetto neighborhood on the Upper West Side. About 85,000 residents, mostly blacks and Puerto Ricans, are jammed within its boundaries, a population density of more than 110,000 per square mile. What police, with typical understatement, call "family disturbances" are as much a part of life there as rats, drug addiction and uncollected garbage...
Domestic squabbles are handled by members of the precinct's so-called Family Crisis Intervention Unit. The officers have been specially trained to subdue arguments with stratagems not always employed by men in blue: consideration, understanding, compassion and gentleness. "I pick up things much quicker now than before," says F.C.I.U. Patrolman John Timony, "because I'm looking for them. You're actually trying to help people now, whereas before you were simply trying to calm the situation...
...reaching, since Bard has done nothing less than revise the role of the cop. He is challenging society's definition of the policeman as an intractable enemy, concerned mainly with making arrests when ordinary sinners overstep the stern line drawn by the law. The 30th Precinct's F.C.I.U. has been recommended by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders as an effective and exemplary instrument for all police departments...
...brother, two deaf-mutes and his aunt and uncle, who are welfare applicants. In the beginning, he attends night law school and tries to make it within the structure. He becomes increasingly militant as he encounters usurious used-car dealers, unscrupulous real estate men and venal cops down at precinct headquarters. The whites, however, come off as no more villainous than the black middle class, especially Jonah's mother-in-law and his rival, an Uncle-Tom sergeant named Vines...