Word: rhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marines, and now seeks security in a job that requires no college degree. Often he aims to live far from the inner city-a lower-middle-class aspiration that produces white commuter cops who nervously regard black-ghetto patrols as raids behind enemy lines. According to Chicago Psychiatrist Clifton Rhead, a policeman needs distinct traits-a tendency to be suspicious, act fast, take risks, be aggressive and obey authority...
Despite the glaring lack of uniform standards across the country, most police recruits fit Dr. Rhead's prescription, as far as it goes. In Eastern and Midwestern cities, the typical recruit is a Roman Catholic of blue-collar background and Irish, Polish or perhaps Italian ancestry. Often, says Chicago Psychologist Arnold Abrams, he has been "exposed to an autocratic environment." Most recruits are eldest sons; most tend to be nervous around authority. In Detroit, says former Police...
...Clifton Rhead, a member of the Chicago Police Psychiatric Board, believes that an effective policeman has, among other traits, "suspiciousness, aggressiveness, a tendency to act on impulse, a readiness to take risks, a strong sense of right and wrong and an absence of inhibitions that would make a man freeze in certain situations." These qualities can "break through" during violent scenes such as those in Chicago two weeks...
...Real Blame. Rhead does not find it surprising that the police reacted to stress the way they did in Chicago. "I would expect that every policeman felt that he was doing his duty." The real blame, according to Rhead, "falls on the leadership, from the lieutenant up to the mayor. I think it is possible to control such a situation with effective and tight leadership." Instead, Daley did nothing but encourage force by making it clear long before the convention that he considered the protesters to be an ill-kempt, subversive and alien breed to whom the city would...