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...striped suit." In 1949 he exchanged his prison number for a badge number, returning to the stage as Lieut. Monoghan in Detective Story. Finding his new image as the hard-boiled cop equally remunerative, McMahon later became the grumbling police lieutenant who ran New York's 65th precinct detective squad on the long-lived ABC series Naked City...
...Chicago's magistrates have long been known as "precinct captain-judges," meaning that they handle relatively minor judicial matters and usually earn their renewable one-year appointments through loyal service to the Democratic and Republican political machines. No one minded much until a new state constitution, adopted last December, automatically elevated all Illinois magistrates in office on July 1, 1971, to associate circuit court judgeships-complete with four-year terms, a salary raise from $23,000 to $32,500 and considerably expanded judicial responsibility. Appalled at the potential impact on the administration of justice, the activist Chicago Council...
...that would stand up in court. Statistically, the new approach has been a success. Since November, more than 300 quarter houses and shooting galleries have been closed, and 1,600 arrests have resulted in 1,432 cases brought to trial. Still, as Sergeant Sam Campbell, chief of the Fifth Precinct's narcotics squad, admits: "We haven't begun to control heroin...
...jail, a precinct station house near George Washington University, there was a tall skinny brother from Texas, who had his leg broken by police because he did not move fast enough into a transporting bus. He was in great pain, but the police left him untreated for eight hours. Finally, when a lawyer from the Mayday Collective was allowed into the jail, someone shouted that there was a prisoner with a broken bone who was being refused treatment. And the lawyer asked the jailer what was up, and the jailer said that he hadn't know that anyone was hurt...
...moral stance. It does not discount the failings of a system that allows criminals to prance defiantly through their civil rites. But it also indicts the kind of police who have created an environment about which Raymond Chandler once commented: "When you pass in beyond the lights of a precinct station you pass out of this world, into a place beyond...