Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a suspect in mind, and all we have to do is find him," Murphy said. "All police are on the lookout for him." He added that the thief was probably "laying low now," and would start operating again in a short time...
Kopliner, the founder of the system, said, "College police captains will have forms which will be filled out with a description of a thief or suspect." These forms will then be sent to all the colleges participating, he continued. A central office, to be located at one of the colleges, will handle all correspondence and coordinate material...
...With such a plan," he went on, "we will be able to make arrests faster and easier, and when we do make them we will be able to book the suspect with all his past college crimes. In this way, crooks will go to jail for a long while instead of getting off with a light punishment...
Stevenson called again for understanding of a foreign people, suggesting that our alliance with the colonial powers of the West have made the East suspect our professed devotion to freedom as hypocritical. He called on America to "avoid the sins of self-righteousness and self-delusion in Asia. Our power," he concluded, "is not absolute nor is our faith infallible...
Night after night, Webb sat in the back seat of the police Chevrolet, listening to the radio's unemotional reports of crime and human weakness, watching every move of the two detectives. After hours, he asked for coaching. How did they frisk a suspect? How did they kick in a door? Once he told Wynn: "Talk like a cop." The detective bristled. "We don't talk any different than you do." "Well," said Webb, "what would you do if you had a suspect?" Said Wynn: "Why, I'd go down to R & I [Records and Identification...