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When you kill a cop, the saying goes, there is no hole to hide in. Two weeks ago, Sergeant Frederick Reddy, 50, and Officer Andrew Glover, 34, of the New York City police department were gunned down on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It was the second such double murder in the area in less than four years. TIME Correspondent Robert Parker compiled a log of the all-out man hunt that began within minutes of the shooting. Here is how New York police went after the killer of two of their...
DAYS 6, 7, 8. The hunt settles down to gray, repetitive routine-phone work, sifting previously gathered information, conferring with informers. One hundred detectives and police officers are now working full-time on the case, and everyone else on the force has it in mind. "There are 30,000 cops looking for that guy," says Averill. The dragnet has turned up unanticipated side benefits. The bank-robbery evidence has led to the tagging of two more men-already jailed on different offenses-as accomplices of Velez, Segarra and Car Owner Hernandez (who is wanted for allegedly taking part...
...name-if they did not have an appalling track record already. Harrison Salisbury, writing in the New York Times, was reminded of the informer in czarist Russia who reported an assassination plot and, when he was disbelieved, turned out himself to be the assassin. During the New York cop-killer man hunt (see following story), one officer left a dollar tip for the waitress after talking with an informer over lunch, then glanced back as he was walking out to see the man pocketing the buck and leaving a quarter instead. "That's just the way informers are," explains...
...Bans. Unsavory as they may be, it remains a police adage that "a cop is only as good as his snitch." In fact, many experts believe that in recent years police agencies throughout the U.S. have dramatically increased their use of informers-ranging from undercover officers to turncoats and professional finks. "Liberals are as much at fault as conservatives," says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. In the '60s, informers by the hundreds infiltrated not only radical movements but also Southern racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Sara Jane Moore's lurch into the limelight has only...
...tedium are, of course, as imperceptible as The Invisible Man. The first episode got them involved with hang gliders, which, unlike most drama-show subjects, are actually photogenic. It also offered some information on how those exotic contraptions work. The data were more interesting than any of the overexposed cop-lawyer-doctor procedures observable this season...