Word: prowled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plenty of men policing this city, five prowl cars and a staff of close to 235. Our crime rate here is low. I can't give you the exact figures, but we're better than most cities. We've got a good department, good men, and they're doing a good job. Why over in Charlestown prison a lot of the boys will tell you that their biggest mistake was coming to Cambridge...
Teacher. In Morristown, Tenn., a prankster took a police prowl car from outside a restaurant and parked it eight blocks away, explained that he thought cops should be broken of the habit of leaving ignition keys in their cars and he just wanted to "teach them a lesson...
...done in private by "mutually consenting" adults. Even when the crime is clearer, as in cases involving children, it is often hushed up. But in recorded court cases, the investigators could find no evidence of a great wave of sex crime, or that "sex fiends" were everywhere on the prowl. Serious sex offenses made up one-tenth of all the criminal cases tried in the superior courts. The fact finders considered the commoner misdemeanors (such as exhibitionism and peeping) as "socially offensive but nondangerous...
From preaching "the faith," at the start, he went on to conduct a hate campaign directed against Jews, Protestants, and the Catholic hierarchy in Boston. His sermons on the Common were often broken by violence, and a prowl car put an "amen" on many closing prayers...
...splotch of Cambridge green where you seldom see the policeman's blue. That is Cambridge Common. Since most policemen are cruising the city in their cozy cars and the others are patroling such arcas as East Cambridge and Central Square, the Common has no watchman. Police say the prowl cars scan the streets and beat-men guard business establishments. They ask: Why patrol Grass...