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...mobile command post, with an armored underside to fend off Molotov cocktails, and a smaller van is available for secondary commanders. Fibre shields, straight out of Ivanhoe, and bulletproof vests have been bought for men in danger areas. The force this summer will have nearly 700 walkie-talkies (v. 58 in 1965) to link commanders with front-line cops...
...cope with all this, Los Angeles has the smallest force in the country, relative to population (an estimated 2,840,632) and area (463.6 sq. mi.). The city employs only 1.9 cops per 1,000 residents v. 2.8 in Chicago, 3.2 in New York. Yet man for man, in part because the force is so highly motorized, it is probably one of the most efficient. The L.A.P.D. has a higher percentage of civilians than any other big-city force (three civilians for every ten in uniform); they handle many tasks, such as clerical work and traffic direction, that elsewhere sworn...
...York City's Howard Leary, 56, has the biggest job of any cop, with the widest range of problems and perhaps the most maddening bureaucracy. He points out that his city has almost ten times as many violent crimes as London (63,412 v. 7,302 last year), despite the British capital's edge in population. The big city has the unique distinction of harboring five of the 24 Cosa Nostra families and most of the nation's narcotics addicts. Almost alone, however, it has escaped major riots since...
...well-to-do prisoners are ever executed. "During my experience as Governor of Ohio," testified Michael V. DiSalle, now chairman of the National Committee to Abolish the Federal Death Penalty, "I found that the men in death row had one thing in common: they were penniless." In his four years as Governor, DiSalle passed final judgment on twelve men, six of whom went to the chair. The burden of their deaths, which still weighs on him, helps to explain the fall-off in the number of executions. For while judges and juries continue to sentence men to death...
...Gentlemen's Doubles. Bounding nimbly across the court, stretching for volleys, scrambling for lobs, Shriver and Partner Robert Kelleher, president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, easily defeated their first-round opponents 6-2, 6-0. Next day, though, they were paired against Jaroslav Drobny and A. V. Martini, a couple of old hands at the game. "They really gave us a shellacking," wheezed Sarge. "But it was terrific...