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...formal complaints have been filed, but D.C. Councilwoman Willie Hardy is investigating several verbal charges of sexual harassment. Though the U.S. Attorney's office has dropped the case for lack of evidence, the police department is investigating the alleged rape of a woman cop by a sergeant during a stakeout of an office building. All of which suggests that the life of a female on a big-city force is not quite as simple as that of Angie Dickinson on NBC's Police Woman. In fact, says D.C. Officer Delores Henneghan, 21: "It's like Peyton Place...
When you kill a cop, the saying goes, there is no hole to hide in. Two weeks ago, Sergeant Frederick Reddy, 50, and Officer Andrew Glover, 34, of the New York City police department were gunned down on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It was the second such double murder in the area in less than four years. TIME Correspondent Robert Parker compiled a log of the all-out man hunt that began within minutes of the shooting. Here is how New York police went after the killer of two of their...
...Alerted by a 10-13 radio call (assist police officer), squad cars converge on East Fifth Street between Avenues A and B at 9:15 p.m. Sergeant Reddy lies near his own squad car, shot once in the heart with a .38. Officer Glover, shot twice in the head and chest, apparently with the same gun, lies a few feet away near a battered red 1967 Plymouth convertible. Reddy had managed to get off three shots. Glover clutches a Pennsylvania title of ownership for the Plymouth. Witnesses say that Glover was apparently carrying out a routine check...
Deputy Chief of Detectives William J. Averill, 62, arrives at 9:30 to command the operation and deploys hundreds of officers, many of them volunteers, who are gathering from all over the city after hearing the news. Sergeant Reddy, who ran the precinct's neighborhood police team, was popular in the tough, polyglot area of Puerto Ricans, blacks, whites and Chinese. The police get cooperation. By 4 a.m., when Averill returns to his office, he has concluded that he is looking for two Hispanic males in their 20s. One, not the killer, is called Frankie, last name unknown...
Half Dollar. After Matlovich refused on the stand to "contract to be celibate, not to practice homosexuality," Colonel James Applegate, the Air Force equivalent of a prosecutor, charged that those unusual circumstances could not exist "when Sergeant Matlovich says 'I am going to go out and do what homosexuals do.' " The panel apparently agreed. Their recommendation will be reviewed by higher Air Force officers, and a final decision on Matlovich's case will be made by Secretary of the Air Force John McLucas...