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...Kill a Policeman! On Saturday, April 24, at 3:30 p.m., three army sergeants and a handful of civilians seized Radio Santo Domingo and announced a "triumphant revolution to restore Juan Bosch to the presidency." The announcement was enough to send the crowds boiling out onto the streets, where agitators whipped them into a frenzy. Army units at two nearby bases joined the revolt, and mobs invaded the central fire station, stole the engines and drove them all night, sirens howling, through the city streets...
...told him that they would not fire on the rebel troops. Reid had no choice but to resign, and fled into hiding at a friend's home. It was already too late to smother the mob's pent-up passions. Insistently, the rebel radio exhorted: "Kill a policeman! Kill a policeman!" "Come into the street and bring three or four others with you!" The frightened army men who had forced Reid's resignation turned the government over to Lawyer Rafael Molina Ureña, a Bosch supporter, until Bosch himself could return. In San Juan, Bosch announced...
Last week, in a surprising switch, Rochester's police filed a suit to have the board disbanded on the ground that it violates a policeman's constitutional rights. Board hearings require him to testify against himself, says the suit, and the board has failed to define at what point force in restraining lawbreakers becomes "unnecessary and excessive." With three cases of police misconduct now pending before the board, the police also won a court order delaying any hearing until the case is decided. Said one Rochester detective: "It's tough enough just being...
...police understandably grew tired of being berated, and insisted that the board adopt a more judicial approach. The board found that most of the complaints were so vague that only rarely could it put together a convincing case against a policeman; in the 515 cases that have come before it, the board has recommended only 18 reprimands or suspensions. And generally the punishment recommended by the board was less severe than that which the police department ordinarily metes out under its own disciplinary system...
...policeman said that the theft of the motion picture camera which occurred three years ago, had not been reported to the police until six months after it occurred. "We certainly can't help the Loeb people if they wait that long to inform us," he said...