Police ethics and the temptations of duty in urban America
The piece argues that most officers are honest but human frailties exist. It cites the Leslie Kempler case in Brooklyn and NYPD reforms led by Commissioner Murphy, noting misconduct cases, temptations from bribes, and the need for field command accountability. It also discusses minority-police relations and a Chicago Panthers raid indictment with later dismissal.
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Willam H. Parker
Los Angeles
Leslie Kempler
Brooklyn
Wayne Bolt
Kemple
Bue
Kempler
Frank Corgine
New York
Patrick V. Murphy
Robert Jaurezgn
San Diego
Tum
Illinois
Edward V. Hanrahan
Hanrahan
Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Harriian
Fred Hampton
Mark Clark
Department
Sweetwater district wins outstanding Adult Community Program Award
Sweetwater Independent School District and its neighborhood center receive an outstanding Adult Community Program Award. Superintendent Drennon Daves accepts from George Blassingame of the U S Office of Education, co sponsor with the Texas Education Agency, with recognition for Mrs. Gladys Gerst’s neighborhood center leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweetwater, Tex
Sweetwater Independent
Drennon Daves
Sweetwater
George Blassingame
Dallas
United States Office
United States Office of Education
Texas Education Agency
Blassingame
Gladys Gerst
Cabinet reshaped as Nixon team faces 1972 tests
Nixon faces a shifting cabinet with six of ten secretaries still in place and two likely to depart in 1972. Key moves include Mitchell possibly leaving to run the reelection effort, Laird indicating only through the first term, and Connally rising at Treasury amid economic turmoil.
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Washington
Nixon
John Mitchell
Defense
Melvin Laird
Pentagon
William Rogers
Commerce
Maurice Stans
Housing and Urban Development
George W. Romney
Transportation
John A. Volpe
the Treasury
David Kennedy
U.S
George Shultz
Office of Management and Budget of Health, Education and Welfare
Robert Finch
Interior
Walter Hickel
Agriculture
Clifford Hardin
Winton Blount
Blount
Post Office Department
U.S. Postal Service
Elmer T. Klassen
HEW
White House
Elliot Richardson
Rogers
John Irwin
Texas
John Connally
Connally
Treasury
GOP
Rogers Morton
Maryland
Hickel
Richardson
Russell E. Train
Council On Environmental Quality
Hodgson
Labor
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East Pecos
Pall Corcoran
Copley News Service
Murphy
Lawrence Flood
John V
Georgia Stroud
Dorothy Johnston
East Pecos Junior High School
Bright
Johnston
Pecos
Monahans
Gadsden High School
Anthony
New Mex
James Dahl
Morton
Shultz
Office of Management and Budget
Budget Bureau
James D. Hodgson
Laurence Silberman
Earl Butz
Congress
Butz
David M. Packard
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