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...regards the problems of society, the graduate is looking for a career in which he can commit himself to help solve these problems. Police work will give him that chance. Law-enforcement executives and college placement bureaus should plan programs toward this goal. Perhaps then the two poles of "cop" and "professional" can be reconciled...
...year by a young police officer, I looked with skepticism on the idea of his communicating anything to a group of intelligent, liberal-minded, middle-class students. But after the first awkward exchanges, my initial impression softened, for here was no hardened, authoritarian, put-'em-in-their-place cop but rather someone who thought, acted, and talked on our level. We fell into easy discussion and learned not only what he did as a cop but also why he was doing it and how it felt to be doing it-that he was sometimes scared...
...COP, as any Englishman worth his roast beef will tell you, is derived from the expression "C(onstable) O(n) P(atrol...
...armed with automatic rifles, police bombarded the dwelling with bullets and tear-gas grenades. During the early morning, flames burst out of one of the windows. A gunman shouted from the top floor: "It's hot up here!" "Then why don't you give up?" asked a cop. The man began firing once more. Within minutes the whole house was ablaze. Two charred bodies were later found in the ruins...
...didn't know which way to go. Were they supposed to run, or stay? Some people scattered. Some began to battle the police. It was impossible to tell whether this was a public protest, or a battle out of the American revolution. Kicking kids were dragged by three cops into a paddy-wagon. Cop cars chased individuals across the grass. One young boy threw an empty bottle against a paddy wagon, and immediately five or six policemen and a couple of other citizens descended on him, and dragged him into a wagon, apparently breaking a couple of his limbs...