Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smith was driving his cab through winding, brick-paved streets in Newark just after dusk one evening. Ahead of him, moving at a maddeningly slow pace, was a prowl car manned by Officers John DeSimone and Vito Pontrelli, on the lookout for traffic violators, drunks, and the angry brawls that often mar a summer's night in a Negro neighborhood. In the stifling heat, Smith grew impatient and imprudent. Alternately braking and accelerating, flicking his headlights on and off, Smith tailgated the police car. Finally, after a quarter-mile of tailgating, Smith tried to swing past the police. They...
Coiled Spring. Taking advantage of the crisis, ten Soviet warships began steaming through the Dardanelles to join a score of others already on the prowl in the Mediterranean. Allied vessels bracketed the crisis zone, with the 50-ship U.S. Sixth Fleet on alert in the Mediterranean, and at least half a dozen British vessels, including the 23,000-ton aircraft carrier Hermes, ready to move into the Red Sea from Aden. The U.S. carrier Intrepid, ostensibly bound for Viet Nam, transited the Suez Canal as anti-American demonstrators waved their shoes at the ship in the Egyptian equivalent...
Sensor and Instant Lawyers. Chief Reddin is full of ideas, such as incentive pay to raise patrol-force status and keep good men in prowl cars. He wastes no time blaming the Supreme Court for "handcuffing" policemen. He is much harder on scientists and technicians for ignoring urgent police equipment needs: tiny radios, night glasses, lightweight armor, heat sensors to detect hidden fugitives, metal sensors for frisking suspects. He also wants someone to develop a gadget to stop a fleeing car's engine and a computerized "instant lawyer" to help police field interrogators avoid unlawful procedures...
...enable wheezy cops to outrun juvenile delinquents, mount sidewalks or even bounce up shallow steps to bypass traffic. For surprise, two-scooter teams patrol their beats in ever-changing patterns; for instant contact, each man carries a portable two-way radio. Not long ago, a scooter cop and a prowl-car team simultaneously got word of a burglary; riding on sidewalks, the scooter man beat the car by seven minutes and nabbed the burglar...
...ever gets caught. To police a city of 2,500,000 residents and 500,000 transients, Chief Papa has only 2,600 men working in three shifts -one cop per 3,450 civilians, or one-sixth the needed force. Papa's men are lucky to get 15 prowl cars on the streets at any one time. Half of the cars are wheezy World War II Jeeps without radios. Manila has only about 24 police call boxes; and even if the city had street pay telephones, which it has not, Papa says that his $80-a-month patrolmen "couldn...