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...city cop on the ghetto beat, constant tension has long been commonplace. But in 1970, there is a new and special kind of peril; in his patrol car or on the sidewalk, the policeman knows that at any moment a sniper's rifle may be trained on him from an unlit alley or a nearby rooftop. Thus far this year, 16 police officers have been killed in unprovoked attacks, more than double the FBI-computed total for all of 1969 and nearly four times the annual average for the past ten years. At least 57 have died...
Washington Post Columnist William Raspberry is no Uncle Tom, but last week he damned the assault on the police as self-destructive. "Cop killing is not revolution," he wrote. "Sometimes it's more like suicide. It doesn't take many senseless attacks to get Americans to the point where they will condone virtually any retaliatory move on the part of the police." TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce, a black who spent nearly five years on the Chicago force, notes: "As a former policeman, I'm placed in a moral dilemma. I am aware that there is a necessity...
...Boston translates it, white and black alike. "It's not really a war," Messaros explains. "It's trying to make a place that's got good people and bad people living in it safe for the nice people. That's why I'm a cop. I like the job, but I also don't want my kids going through all this." Boston adds: "Bugs don't care who you are. When push comes to shove, they don't care whether you're green or black or gray or what. They just...
...cultural fault line, the characters around him are bizarre monoliths. His boss, Bruno Glober, spends working hours slathering over skin magazines and evenings spreading around huge sums of cash raked in from an interest in an international slacks cartel. The homicide squad itself includes such legends of cop-hood as Detective Teener, who has been so chipped away by criminals' bullets that his body is composed almost entirely of spare parts, and Detective Medici, the Dean of Child Molestation. Put with all the robust vulgarity and double-entendre that Bruce Friedman obviously intends, the book's central issue...
Since April, Weatherman-type gangs of young men and women have made almost daily hit-and-run attacks throughout Calcutta. They have ambushed three police vehicles, killing one policeman and injuring three. One gang stabbed a schoolteacher to death. A plainclothes cop was chased and killed by a knife-wielding mob. Nine movie houses showing an anti-Chinese film were attacked, their audiences routed. Public buses and trams were firebombed. Naxalites ransacked a printing plant handling a U.S. Government account, and sacked the local Ford Foundation office...