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...weeks after his death, she impulsively married Captain Horace G. Brown, sometime skipper of an oceangoing tanker and former cop, who looked very much like William Randolph Hearst. The marriage almost ended within a year as Brown began making a nuisance of himself: he pushed her into the pool, his monkey bit her, and he let the air out of the tires of visitors' automobiles. She decided to ignore him and became absorbed with real estate interests, acquiring office buildings in Manhattan, Palm Springs' Desert Inn, and 360,000 acres in Mexico...
Seated behind his 8-ft. desk, Stanley Russell Schrotel looks like a corporation executive and talks like a university professor. But Stan Schrotel (rhymes with motel) is, in fact, a cop, a man who makes his living as Cincinnati's chief of police. And at a time when the rising wave of crime has become a major national problem, Police Chief Schrotel, 47, has earned the reputation of being just about the best cop...
...Chase College at the local Y.M.C.A. He was a captain in 1948 when the Cincinnati civil service commission made a ruling which allowed him and 16 other young captains to take the competitive exams that would pick the successor to retiring Chief Eugene T. Weatherly, an old-style cop who used to sharpen his shooting eye by blazing away at the rats in his dingy office. Schrotel passed the exams with the record score of 99.33% and became Cincinnati's top cop...
...shrewd public relations campaign. Every person who makes a complaint gets a visit from an officer and a letter from Schrotel. Anyone who is arrested may be interviewed by the inspection bureau and invited to sound off about the treatment he received from the police and in court. Cincinnati cops are forbidden to argue with citizens. Says Schrotel: "I don't care if a cop wins the argument. He's lost our battle...
Philadelphia and Detroit also reported an alarming increase in the number of attacks against policemen. In Los Angeles, where such assaults have almost tripled in recent years, some 300 cop fighters were prosecuted in the past year; their weapons ranged from nail-studded boards to soggy garbage and (in a home for delinquent girls) bedpans. On Memorial Day, a mob of 300 set upon 75 cops in a fist-swinging riot at Griffith Park started by a hassle over a teen-ager who had stolen a ride on a merry-go-round. Some weeks later in suburban San Gabriel, when...