Word: stakeouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crime Stoppers' program is a dramatic example of what a citizens group can do to fight crime. Another citizens crime commission, in Wichita, is run like an FBI cover operation. It is headed by former G-Man Maurice ("Corky") Corcoran, 60, who likes making "a stakeout" and boasts of nipping a bingo operation and an abortion ring. But the main work of the 24 citizens commissions around the country is to be watchdogs. Privately supported, mostly with business contributions, the groups have professional staffs ranging from 19 in Chicago to one in Saginaw, Mich. They have no power...
Moses Wine is a sometime Berkeley activist and law school dropout, now beginning a new life and career as a Los Angeles private detective. He drives an unprepossessing yellow Volkswagen convertible and often has to take his two kids along when he's on a stakeout-his ex-wife being much preoccupied with her est-like training and her live-in, est-like trainer. The rest of his family consists of an aunt who once waltzed with Bakunin in Russia, and is too busy to be much help with the kids: she's trying to radicalize her senior...
...have to keep up the diligent effort in the hope they don't commit another offense," he added, referring to the indefinite duration of the present stakeout of the Business School area...
Pavement artist: stakeout or tail...
...most reliable methods used by the mountain men to run down a fleeing inmate is that used for capluring any animal-the stakeout. Explains Daugherty, who reckons that he has chased down some 200 escaped men since 1963: "You'll hunker down there for six or maybe eight hours and you won't make a sound. You aren't supposed to talk or move or smoke-why do you think we chew tobacco? If it's daytime you hide behind a tree or a log. Sure enough, before long, you'll hear the criminal...