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Investigating a robbery report in the barrio in Riverside, Calif., a police patrol car sighted some possible suspects: a group of Chicans packed in a gaudily painted Chevy. One of the cops barked the usual command: "Everyone out with your hands in sight!" As the Chicanos emerged, the policeman's jaw dropped. Among the suspects was a fellow cop, Gerald Carroll, outfitted in jeans and dark glasses, his blond hair hidden under a knitted cap. Carroll hastily explained. He was living among the Chicanos as part of a program sponsored by the Riverside police department; he was just...
...says Ferguson. Some 50 policemen have taken the Chicano course; eight have stayed with a family and several more volunteers are waiting their turn. "A lot of guys think they're going to be with someone who'll cut their throats," says Patrolman Mike Robitzer, the first cop to live in. He emerged from his threeday, two-night stint without a scratch. Joining an eleven-member family with a father on welfare, he experienced a degree of culture shock. He shared a drafty enclosed patio with a teen-age son. For his first breakfast he was offered "eggs...
...Ongoing, widespread, systematic and occurring at all levels." That is how a 1974 Pennsylvania crime-commission report described police corruption in Philadelphia, whose Democratic mayor, Frank Rizzo, is a tough law-and-order ex-cop. Rizzo's rival in the state capital, Democratic Governor Milton Shapp and his political allies in Philadelphia saw a chance to score two points: clean up the graft-ridden police department and discredit Rizzo at the same time. To accomplish these aims, Shapp turned to a device that is becoming increasingly popular as a way of policing the police and the criminal-justice system...
...political form. Meeting high school students, he did not lecture them but sounded out their opinions on national policy. At Grafton, a local policeman mumbled about Chappaquiddick and complained that Kennedy had swiped his Bic pen to sign autographs. But when he caught sight of the Senator, the cop shook his hand enthusiastically and said...
...unexplained reasons, the Scotts, the Harrises and Patty pulled out of their sanctuary in late fall and began driving west. At one point, the van was stopped by a highway patrolman. Scott, who was driving, bluffed his way out of the jam by telling the cop that he and the others were driving home from a football game in Pennsylvania...