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...that role is to be dealt out to anyone on the Northeastern team, it must go to 65" John Burrows, who is the Huskie policeman under the boards Calhoun says that while Conners has the stats. Burrows is the main man underneath. "He gets the tough rebound for son, the Northeastern coach said last night and he boses out well...
...Louis abandoned foot patrolmen in all but downtown business areas some 15 years ago. Even so, explains Police Chief Eugene Camp, "every time I went to a community meeting, or spoke with businessmen, or talked with citizen groups, I always heard the same thing. Everyone asked for the policeman to return to his beat on foot." Finally, armed with funds from the new federal crime-fighting "Impact" grant, he decided to put the idea to the test. In a program he called Overtime Foot Patrol Camp began last June to field 24 foot patrolmen during the week...
...involved, Sergeant William Conreux: "At first there was some apprehension that the public, especially in the black neighborhoods, would be hostile, but none of that has emerged. It's just the opposite. Some parents even yank their kids onto the street to introduce them to a real, live policeman." St. Louis police received fan letters from citizens lauding the program, and the restaurants and stores in the areas report increased business. One woman was so enthusiastic she telephoned the captain in charge of the program to say that she and her husband now take walks at night...
Obviously, patrolmen on foot cannot meet all the needs of modern law enforcement, but if nothing else, they may be able to recement the bond that once existed between citizen and policeman, thereby making crime prevention a neighborhood responsibility. Reflects Chief Camp, "We won't really be able to evaluate the program for two or three more years, but we may just find that a mix of men in the car and on the beat is the best way to fight crime...
...close friends. The groom, it turned out, was one of the city's better-known pimps and the groom's mother was a notable madam, as was the bride. All three were among those convicted. In a trial of three flic-bordello operators last week, one investigating policeman maintained that the nightclub Escuries du Roy (stables of the king) was actually a whorehouse-allegedly the most fashionable and expensive in Lyon-protected by Charret and Tonnot. In the wake of the disclosure Charret was forced to resign from the Gaullist party but announced his intention...