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Raised Truncheon. As he headed for his car to go home, Barkley noticed a crowd beginning to stampede, followed by a surging blue line of helmeted, jump-suited riot police. He tried to leave, but a young cop raised his truncheon to strike him. "Son, if you touch me with that," Barkley warned him, "you've touched the wrongest man in Palo Alto...
...deep stir so they would not get only flavored water. Women began appearing on that once all-male mode of transport, the freight car. A petty thief, lacking a gun for a sudden job, knew that corruption was so rampant that he could borrow the needed weapon from a cop on patrol. At farm foreclosure sales, friends would gather, bid 10? for every item, scare others out of bidding more, then give everything back to the farmer. And in his mother's hotel, Terkel, then in his teens, sensed that the Depression had set in for keeps when...
...Wilson's white officers have been trained to treat blacks decently mainly as a matter of self-protection. A mistreated kid, for example, may hurt a cop when he gets big and dangerous. But ultimately, as Wilson sees it, every man on the beat must go beyond self-interest and somehow learn to see himself as a servant of all citizens ?blacks as well as whites. Fast police response in the ghetto, Wilson thinks, is the best contribution that police can make to racial peace in his city...
...past eight months, hundreds of students at Ivy League colleges have listened raptly to the unlikeliest of campus recruiters: a cop. New York City Police Sergeant David Durk, 35, comes on in a button-down shirt, loafers and blunt idealism. "If the thought of seeing a problem on the street and doing something about it appeals to you," he told Harvard undergraduates recently, "become a cop." Surprisingly large numbers of students seem eager to try changing the world in blue uniforms. Most of Durk's recruits are headed for Washington, but scores of others have signed up to take...
...graduate of Amherst and a doctoral candidate in sociology and public administration at New York University, Durk once thought the practice of law might be his calling. He studied a year at Columbia Law School but disliked his classmates' chatter about money. In 1963, he became a cop for the same reasons he uses to persuade potential recruits. "The social potential of the policeman is incredible-self interest merges with public interest. If you dare to think about it," Durk says, "it's your last chance to be a knight errant...