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...system has thrived on the fact that most people are not aware of their constitutional right to silence. By holding that suspects may need lawyers to protect that right not merely in court but in the police station, the court's decision in Escobedo v. Illinois posed a cop's nightmare-no more confessions...
...Parliament, clerk, street sweeper, all live in the same terror of flunking the blood-alcohol test and being clapped into jail. Time and again, when we lived in Denmark, friends with as few as two schnapps or highballs under their belts telephoned the police-who dispatched a courteous cop, free of charge, to drive them home...
...Color of Law." In the Philadelphia triple killing, the state of Mississippi refused to bring murder charges against 18 suspects, including Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price and Philadelphia Cop Richard Willis. Because murder is not a federal offense except when it occurs on U.S.-owned property, Government attorneys prosecuted the 18 on federal charges growing out of an 1870 law. The Government accusations were based on two parts of the law. Section 241 makes it a crime punishable by ten years in prison and a $5,000 fine for "two or more persons to conspire...
...mercy, dressed all in white and sitting on a golden throne." A Dutch charwoman says: "God is a ghost floating in space." Screenwriter Edward Anhalt (Becket) says that "God is an infantile fantasy, which was necessary when men did not understand what lightning was. God is a cop-out." A Greek janitor thinks that God is "like a fiery flame, so white that it can blind you." "God is all that I cannot understand," says a Roman seminarian. A Boston scientist describes God as "the totality of harmony in the universe." Playwright Alfred muses: "It is the voice which says...
...Capitol Police Department, charged with protecting the House and Senate buildings, boasts some of the world's best-educated cops-and some of the least efficient. More than half of the 248-man force consists of meagerly trained, patronage-appointed college students whose ambitions seldom em brace advancement in the gendarmerie (the annual turnover is 82%). At any rate, there was not a cop in sight last week when a Capitol janitor stabbed and robbed Republican James C. Cleveland of New Hampshire late at night in his office. Inevitably, the incident revived memories of the day in 1954 when...