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...campaign kickoff, the contrast between Republican calm and Democratic storm was obvious. About the only reminder of the previous week's violence was the elaborate, often sarcastic courtesy of the police toward reporters. When a TIME reporter asked if he could cross a police barricade, a cop gave a fairly typical answer: "Of course, sir. Anything you want, sir. We're here to serve...
...Psychologists warn us that prejudice is learned," Dixon says. "Put a man in the central Negro area and after he's been called names and spit at, he'll be prejudiced." A City University of New York sociologist, Arthur Neiderhoifer, agrees that the very nature of a cop's duties tends to "transform him into an authoritarian agent of control." Neiderhoffer, a New York policeman for more than 20 years, writes in his book, Behind the Shield: "The hostility and fear that almost palpably press against a policeman in lower-class areas aggravate his impulse...
...unoriginal" snapped Genet. So he and his colleagues decided to return to the idyllic delights of Lincoln Park, only to run into a clash with police. A flying bottle narrowly missed Burroughs' head. Genet, who looks like one of Santa Claus' elves, was almost clubbed by a cop before he calmed his would-be assailant with a beatific smile...
...interiors of various bars, where they were joined by Southern's girlfriend. But as becomes participant-journalists, they showed up at all the proper rebellious places. At the un-birthday party thrown for Lyndon Johnson by the hippies in the Chicago Coliseum, they matched animalistic descriptions of the cops. Burroughs called them "vicious dogs," and asked: "Is there not a municipal ordinance requesting that vicious dogs be muzzled and controlled?" Genet thought a better description was "mad dogs, who for the past 150 years have done the same thing, with even greater brutality, to the blacks." Improving on even...
Zone 13 is the police designation for a jagged area of St. Petersburg, Fla., that has been gerrymandered to include most of the city's Negro districts. No white cop had ever been assigned to Zone 13, and none of the Negroes covering that beat ever patrolled the city's white sections. Charging that the police department was assigning them by race, twelve of St. Petersburg's 14 Negro officers sued the city two years ago under the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment...