Word: supercops
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...contest in Philadelphia is a study in contrasts: burly ex-Supercop Rizzo against Republican Thacher Longstreth-tall and slender, with Chestnut Hill-Princeton looks and background. Longstreth, a former executive vice president of the city's Chamber of Commerce and an unsuccessful mayoral candidate 16 years ago, was appointed by local G.O.P. Boss William Meehan. Rizzo, who rose through the ranks of the police department, won his party's nomination in a bruising primary battle (TIME, May 31), in which his main pitch was that, as police commissioner, he kept the "radicals" in check, and that he would...
...More powerful than Abbie Hoffman! Faster on the guff than Bella Abzug! Able to leap Baron Munchausen in a single bound! It's Supercop Jack Muller, the Chicago letter-of-the-law man who for 25 years has been causing pain and embarrassment to that city's politicians, smug elite and privileged hoodlums...
...dismay. From the beginning Rizzo was so confident of victory that he refused to debate his opponents or make any appeal to the black vote. Instead he limited his campaign appearances-usually no more than one a day -to friendly white neighborhoods and concentrated on polishing his gruff supercop image. "I was there in every crisis when Philadelphia needed me," he told one audience. He did not have to spell out the fact that most of those crises involved blacks, crime and drugs...