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Harvard placed men in five of the possible six singles spots. Number two man John Ingard edged teammate and number one player Ken Lindner, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5, to cop the A division crown. In sweeping the three divisions, Gary Reiner took the B competition, while John Horn edged teammate Hugh Hyde for the C title...
According to Dyen, a policeman was clubbing a student in the Yard during the bust. "A kid in a wheel chair, probably a friend of the guy being beaten, rolled up and pushed against the cop and told him to cut it out. The cop turned around and slammed the kid so hard he just sailed out of his wheel chair onto the ground...
...looks out at his "Integrity Training" class of 38 police academy students. "What kind of situation is this?" he asks. "Very tempting," offers one student. The class laughs. Danschisch is not amused. The brand-new mandatory 10-hour course uses films and actual case histories to prepare the future cops for the ethical pressures they will face. Instructors like Danschisch take the program very seriously. The video tape moves again. "I'm sure this guy's insured," the rogue cop says of the jewel robbery victim. Danschisch interrupts: "A typical rationale. Pretty soon somebody says...
Danschisch remembers how easy it is to look the other way. "I did it," he says. "I put the blinders on." Why did he change? "I used to ignore the stories. But when the headlines hit-COP ARRESTED-it bothered me. I would go to cocktail parties and mumble, 'I work for the city' when people asked what I did for a living. Maybe it was the cocktail parties that made me change. I don't know." Now maybe it will be his students who help the force to change...
There are also more professional police-bringing the end of what is left of old-style political-machine control of police forces. "The professionally and the politically dominated departments tend to be at opposite ends of the corruption scale," writes William P. Brown, a former cop who teaches at the State University of New York at Albany...