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...suspect was immediately taken into custody by Los Angeles police, reportedly advised of his rights to counsel, and interrogated. Shortly after 6 a.m., Los Angeles Police Chief Thomas Reddin told reporters that the suspect had refused counsel, declined to give his name, and spoke only one word--"yes"--to an unspecified question...
...Angeles Police Chief Thomas Reddin, who had left the President's dinner to watch the operation, shout- ed encouragement to his men from a loudspeaker in the middle of the street. "That's it, officers, you're doing a fine...
...Reddin. "I call it the blue curtain." But now, with Quinn Tamm poking at the curtain, constructive self-criticism is bringing the police into closer touch with the public...
...justice, the flare-up last week in Los Angeles' perennially explosive Watts area was extinguished by swift, steady police action. When a fire broke out in a military-surplus storage yard, it looked like the first spark. Soon rocks were winging at firemen, and Police Chief Thomas J. Reddin ordered a "tactical police alert"; he threw a cordon of 80 cops around the scene of the fire and snuffed out a potential riot...
Predictably, Leary's view is not shared by many front-line cops. Says Los Angeles Chief Tom Reddin: "Until such time as every criminal signs in blood that he will not use lethal weapons against my officers, I will not substitute for their firearms. I don't want the psychological advantage in a combat situation to be on the other side." Even so, Reddin agrees that "where the officer's life is not in danger, a weapon that could be accurate, and would incapacitate, would be a valuable...