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...carrying something partly up his sleeve. Five minutes later she heard shots and the wail of a car horn. Next day, learning of the double shooting, she was certain the passing stranger had been the killer. When detectives questioned her, she recalled another vital detail: she had seen a cop tagging a cream-colored car parked illegally near a fire hydrant one block from the murder site...
Looters looked on anything movable as desirable boodle. Police caught one man in Bedford-Stuyvesant with 300 sink stoppers and another with a case of clothespins. Two young boys were spotted carrying away an end table. "Where'd you get that thing?" a cop shouted. "My momma give it to me?you can have it," said one of the kids as they dropped their loot and dashed into a crowd that was happily watching a blazing furniture store...
Sometimes looters were let go with a warning. One experienced pair of 26-year-old cops, with modish long hair and sideburns, spun around Bedford-Stuyvesant in a battered 1970 Dodge painted to look like a gypsy taxi. They spied a young boy carrying a big box. The frightened kid dropped the carton, and glass tinkled. "What's in the box, Johnny?" asked one of the policemen. ''Booze, man, liquor," replied the kid. "Where'd you get it, Johnny?" "I bought it, man, paid money for it." The cop peered into the box and saw the markings of a newly...
...community service. The honor is bestowed for a player's public acts-heading fund drives and the like. But private and unpublicized deeds most distinguish Carew's style. He regularly travels to the Mayo Clinic to visit patients. Once he had a run-in with a traffic cop who pointedly called him "boy" as he wrote up the ticket. The policeman later had the temerity to ask Carew to visit his father, who was dying of cancer. Carew went. After an emotional bedside scene with the son and father, Carew returned to tell his wife: "I guess this...
...miles an hour, a lone driver smashes his car into a tree and dies in the wreckage. A highway cop notes the dry, straight road and lack of skid marks, then lists the cause of death as "improper driving." But behavioral scientists-as well as police-have long theorized that many such otherwise inexplicable crashes are actually disguised suicides...