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...time city police arrived, however, the band had returned to its buses, and was ready to leave. Nine prowl cars and about 15 patrolmen halted the caravan and, with police aboard, the buses were taken to a nearby precinct station house, where Strauss was booked as responsible since he is band leader, and Upton was charged as a token representative of the group...
...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...
Both Martin and Sullivan agree that the current beats are all understaffed. "Why on the last watch in the Square there's no one on, and only an occasional prowl car coming through," says Sullivan. "We need 25 more men, and I think we'll eventually get them...
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...