Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...odds against passing the exams are daunting. In New York, more than 15,600 cops are vying for an anticipated 2,500 sergeant vacancies, and 2,600 sergeants for 600 lieutenant slots. "Either you pass the test and get promoted, or you stay a cop for history," says Officer Michael Corr, 33. Corr took the sergeant's exam when it was last given in 1983. He failed by 3 points, losing the promotion with its $44,000 sergeant's pay -- $10,000 above a patrolman's maximum. If he misses again, the next round will probably not come...
...country, other police officers face the same ordeal. In San Francisco only twelve of the 80 officers who sweated through the ten-hour captain's exam in December made it. In Phoenix 37 crammed for up to two years for last April's lieutenant's test. Among them was Sergeant Lee Bennington, 46, who has taken the exam six times since 1972. This time he put in some 700 hours over twelve months, drilling with 3,000 homemade flashcards -- and passed. In Washington 1,187 who took May 21 officers' exams still await results...
With lawyers to intercept his mail and bodyguards to screen his movements, the fugitive managed to elude the U.S. Capitol police for ten days. Finally, a stakeout caught him at a stoplight near his home in Great Falls, Va. Running in a half crouch, Sergeant Tom Moore sprinted past a backup car of security men, reached through the auto's open window and slapped his quarry on the chest with a congressional subpoena. "O.K., you got me," the captive conceded...
...being used to process, package, cut and distribute, to sell and even to enforce discipline in the ranks," says Roy Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the eastern district of Michigan. Those familiar with the inner-city drug trade have never seen anything like it. "I grew up here," says Sergeant Tom Hughes of the Wayne County probate court, which includes Detroit. "There were drugs in our neighborhood. But they were heroin dealers. They didn't mess with children. That was the difference...
...young as 14 have been locked up for torturing their rivals. "They've ((electrically)) shocked people's arms or poured alcohol on open wounds," says Probation Officer Michael Sinnott. Teenage crack-house denizens have started videotaping their own X-rated shows. "A lot of it is group sex," says Sergeant Elmer Harris, a Detroit homicide officer, "or inducing girls to have sex with each other or with dogs...