Word: rochford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the judge found the lines "alas, not very lecherous," he was "delighted" by the one-word fourth line. Some of the five runners-up were slightly-but only slightly-bawdier. New Jerseyite David Rochford wrote...
...Chicago, James Rochford was named the new police superintendent after the convictions of 48 cops in the past three years and the firing or forced resignations of 407 members of the force. Two weeks ago, after 72 top officers took lie detector tests, Rochford gave the force its biggest command shakeup ever; 60 of the highest-ranking men were moved up, down or around...
During World War II the man whom the cops call "the Big Rock" won two Bronze Stars as an infantry sergeant in the Pacific. As a policeman, Rochford once walked into a house in pursuit of a sniper who had killed two cops-and he walked out with his man. But his record is not without blemish: he was overall commander during the brutal police clashes with demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic Convention, when his men got out of control. Rochford was also in charge of the police who fired a volley of shots-wounding one youth-in a riot...
...Rochford immediately called for a "complete turnabout" on the force and proposed a list of modest reforms that filled three single-spaced pages. Main items: setting up a new Office of Professional Standards, staffed in part by civilians, to investigate police brutality and corruption; reinstating psychiatric evaluations of applicants to weed out the emotionally unstable; and attracting more blacks and Spanish-speaking people to the force. Rochford also asked the mayor to take away the police's power to issue liquor licenses and give it to some other city agency...
...addition, Rochford disclosed results of lie-detector tests that he had ordered 72 top officers to take in order to determine if any had participated in or condoned acts of corruption. Seven men failed all four questions, and nine failed one or more. Rochford demanded and is getting the resignations of all 72 officers. He will now determine who should be reinstated, demoted or fired...