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...commander of the riot squad, and Sgt. Miguel Rosario were shot as riot police surrounded the university student center. A lieutenant of the riot squad said that the shots came from a sniper hidden behind a statue in front of the building. Jacinto Guiterrez, R. O. T. C. sergeant, was also killed...
...read Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh's book The New Centurions [Feb. 15] and was sorry to hear that he was officially admonished by L.A. Police Chief Edward M. Davis. He should have been given a citation for the compassionate insight he renders into the life of a cop. He successfully delineates the humanism of the policeman trying to do an impossible job. Wambaugh does more than "keep out of trouble with the reader," he evokes a positive response toward this clannish group of men who know...
Once the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations started digging into corruption in Army noncommissioned officers' clubs in Viet Nam, it began to turn up scandals involving everything from B-girl rings comprised of shanghaied actresses to a "little Mafia" of top sergeants who systematically bilked service clubs of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Two weeks ago, a federal grand jury indicted six present or former noncoms, including the former Sergeant Major of the Army, William Wooldridge...
...Marines line up and a gunnery sergeant gives them a lecture," Sachs said. "All the time he's talking, he's fondling a rabbit in his hands. Then at the end of the talk, he takes the rabbit, breaks its neck, slits it stem to stern, and throws the bloody mess at the troops, shouting, 'Get ready, grunts. That's what's coming...
Criminologists, law professors and judges have theories and ideas and observations about crime, but policemen know. Because they are just ordinary men, the burden of knowledge generally makes them clannish, somewhat smug and unusually prone to divorce and suicide. In the case of Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant in the Los Angeles police department, firsthand knowledge has led to a workmanlike first novel, short on nuance, but notably convincing. It follows three L.A.P.D. rookies through five years on the force, climaxing in the terrorized disorder of the police effort to contain the 1965 Watts riot...