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...that residents can know who the man behind the badge is, Reddin also gave each cop business cards and name tags?an innocuous but nonetheless controversial departure in a once notoriously highhanded force. Another innovation is actually ancient. Reddin has returned to the streets a man who disappeared from Los Angeles when patrol cars came in: the cop on the beat. It is remarkable in a city where only the poor and the eccentric walk, and so far the experiment is on a tiny scale. About 30 are now pounding the pavements...
...Washington, 21% of the force; Philadelphia, 20%; Chicago, 17%). Negro policemen are often looked on as Judases when they put on the blue uniform. "More than anything," laments a black patrolman in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, "I want my people to like me. But they just don't like cops. This suit makes me an enemy to them just like any other cop...
...Another is that more and more policemen have to moonlight to make ends meet?and in most cities are required to carry their guns off duty?as guards or cabbies. This can itself provoke violence. Arguing in a New York traffic tie-up last week, one off-duty cop shot another and was, in turn, shot by a third. Result: one dead, one seriously wounded...
...nearly every other way, Reddin is a very un-coplike cop...
...mildly intellectual. Virtually every attraction that comes to the Los Angeles Music Center is on his list, and with his wife Betty he attends night courses at U.C.L.A., their subjects ranging from archaeology and modern art to drama and "Man in Contemporary Society." He is perhaps the only top cop in the country who cultivates the acquaintance of a score of psychiatrists-all of whom meet with him about once a month to discuss the attitudes of policemen and the police community-relations program...