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...black Omaha policeman, puts it this way: "The whites say we don't enforce the law, that we let everybody go. The blacks say we're just doing the white man's dirty work." Adds one veteran black policeman, now a federal official: "The black cop is being told to choose between the department and the black community. He is choosing the community." But the pattern is mixed. While many black cops feel they must fight for their black fellow citizens against what they often see as the incomprehension and aggression of white cops, they are also...
Obscene Captions. Black cops in many U.S. cities are now creating activist organizations of their own. The Afro-American Patrolmen's League claims 1,000 members, nearly half the blacks on the 13,000-man Chicago force, though one department spokesman says he has heard that the dues-paying cops in Robinson's group number no more than 50. In San Francisco, which has 1,800 policemen, all 85 of the blacks belong to Officers for Justice, founded two years ago to redress black grievances. Among them: the regular police organization refused legal aid to black cops charged...
...black cops' chief argument for a bigger role in ghetto law enforcement is that they can do it bettermore fairly and more intelligently. Says Deputy Chief Inspector George Harge, top-ranking black cop in Detroit: "Language is the biggest barrier. White policemen find it hard to differentiate between riot language and horseplay language. Some black talk implies an imminent riot to whites, but to blacks it is a way of life. A rash decision by a patrolman based on language that he believes is offensive can precipitate instead of quash a riot." Leon Fisher, a black cop...
John Grimes, a young black, has spent nearly eight years as a New York City cop and is now a student at Harvard Law School. Says Grimes: "It's really a matter of communication." If black citizens "know where your heart is and that you really want to talk to them and not pull some wool over their eyes, then there's no problem." Grimes, who has written a master's thesis on "The Black Man and Law Enforcement," argues that assignment to black districts should be voluntary duty for the best-trained officers, who would...
...police took two six-week-old puppies," said a member of the group who would not identify himself. "They told the guys in jail that the dogs were dead, but we think they gave them to some cop's kids. I would rather see them dead...