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...Third World War is absolutely inevitable. By so believing, they do believe that we shall take the side of the United States as the side of good as against the side of evil. It's a sort of a good and evil, a sort of a "robbers and cops" game--the cop being America and the robbers being 'Russia or China if you wish...

Author: By William Woodward, | Title: Latin America: Politics and Social Change | 1/11/1967 | See Source »

...indeed, if he ever gets caught. To police a city of 2,500,000 residents and 500,000 transients, Chief Papa has only 2,600 men working in three shifts -one cop per 3,450 civilians, or one-sixth the needed force. Papa's men are lucky to get 15 prowl cars on the streets at any one time. Half of the cars are wheezy World War II Jeeps without radios. Manila has only about 24 police call boxes; and even if the city had street pay telephones, which it has not, Papa says that his $80-a-month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Public Unsafety | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...Police Commissioner Howard Leary, 55, a career cop with a law degree who rose to head Philadelphia's police force before being asked to New York by Lindsay. Leary has displayed not only the qualities of an efficient administrator but also a badly needed talent for improving police relations with Negroes and Puerto Ricans. » Corporation Counsel J. Lee Rankin, 59, a Nebraskan who served as U.S. Solicitor General in the Eisenhower Administration and later as chief counsel of the Warren commission. » Budget Director Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, 43, holder of a Harvard master's degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Governing the Ungovernable | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...they are anthropologists or psychologists or sociologists they look to the military and the draft as one last chance of saving drop-outs, cop-outs and freak-outs; as a way of up-setting the habits and responses of slum life. They want some form of national service, involving as many people as possible...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Draft Debate | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...civilian-dominated police review board, set up last summer to hear and sift charges of police malfeasance or brutality. Most top politicians of both parties campaigned for the board. The police bitterly opposed it, and the majority (63%) of voters agreed that the board would inhibit the cop on the beat and send the crime rate soaring. The board was summarily killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Propositions: Confusing Clutter | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

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