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CHICAGD PDLICE
THE O F F I C I AL
P U BLIC AT I O N
OF THE
CH I CAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT
OCTOBER
1967
Officer Friendly Goes
City-Wide page 16
Award of Valor
page 3
page 7
The Story
of an Idea
and
How It Grew
page 6
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CHICAGD
PDL I CE
STAR
Vol. VIII , No . 10
OCTOBER
This letter was sent to Area #4 Youth
Officers William Gename and Martin O'Malley.
Richard J. Daley
Mayor
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James B. Conlisk, Jr,
Superintendent of Police
Mel Mawrence
Director of Public Information
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Interview-Prof. James R.
Thompson
The Story of an Idea and How
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Award of Valor
News, News , News
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STAFF
Virginia l. Rahm, editor; J. Marshall Curry,
assistant editor; D. Talimonchuk, artist;
Ptlmn. James Miller, Superintendent' s OffIce,
liaison. Photos by official Department photog·
raphers, Graphic Arts section. Names of Unit
reporters in "Blue Light" section of magazine.
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Prof. James R. Thompson Q. What is the organization you, Prof. Inbau and
(former Superintendent) O. W. Wilson have formed?
A. It's called the Americans for Effective Law Enforcement
(AELE). Prof. lnbau is president, I'm vice president.
We're still at the stage where we're raising funds , finding
office space and hiring a director. We 're not looking for
members yet.
ABLE provides citizens with an organization to belong
James R . Thompson, 31, is Assistant Professor of
to
which probably represents the majority view--concern
Law, Northwestern University School of Law. He
about crime, concern for law enforcement, and for en
earned an LL.B. from Northwestern in 1959 and was
acting statutes to strengthen the hand of law enforcement.
admitted to the Illinois Bar the same year.
No other organization has really fulfilled this need. Some
In 1964, Prof. Thompson briefed and argued for the
on the far right have announced support of the police,
State in Escobedo vs. Illinois before the United States
but no middle-of-the-road group. It will probably be
Supreme Court. This fall, he will argue in the "Stop
looked upon as a counter organization to ACLU [Ameri
and Frisk" cases before the Supreme Court.
can Civil Liberties Union]. For example, we'll file a
Prof. Thompson was a member of the Joint Com
brief, sponsored by AELE, in support of the stop and
mittee of the Chicago and Illinois Bar Associations to
frisk laws before the U.S. Supreme Court. In many of
Revise the Criminal Code and was a member of the
these major cases brought before the Supreme Court ,
Drafting Committee, 1959-1963. He was an advisor
only one side has been represented. When I represented
to the President's Commission on Law Enforcement
the State of Illinois in Escobedo, for example, the only
and Administration of Justice in 1966, and a member
outside organization represented was the ACLU. Our
of Mayor Daley's Committee to Draft Legislation to
interests in a particular case may probably go beyond the
Combat Organized Crime in 1964-65.
prosecutor's-he just wants to win this case. Our
local
Nine of Prof. Thompson's articles have been printed
interests will center around what constitutes rights of the
in professional law journals. A book, Cases and Com
police, particular police procedures and so on.
ments on Criminal Justice , Inbau, Sowle and Thompson ,
(two volumes), will be published in 1968 .
Q. Is Northwestern University unique in its work with
and for police?
A. Northwestern, for a number of years, has been one of
the few, if not the only, universities to lend its support
to police. It was one of the few interested in criminal
(continued on next page)
Q. What about the legal and moral problems of civil
INTERVIEW
disobedience?
(cont.)
law, in fact. A number of schools have gotten on the
criminal law bandwagon, but usually on the side of the
defense. Northwestern is the only school in the country
to have a Police-Legal Advisor Program. [See July issue
of Slar.] It's the only school to work on all three as
pects of the criminal law--police, defense and prosecu
tion.
A. You're really talking about three different things. The
first-purely demonstrations-does not involve law vio
lations ordinarily. It does involve the Police Department
for crowd control and traffic control. While there is no
doubt this is an accepted means of free expression, I'm
concerned if the people leading them aren't concerned
that this may unfairly drain police manpower in order
to protect them. There's no doubt that crime rises when
police must be used for this purpose.
The second involves the deliberate breaking of an
unconstitutional or unjust law . There's not too much of
that in Chicago. The sit-ins in the South, the deliberate
violations of the law protesting unconstitutional laws,
were for test cases, and they were good ones.
The third group is the "irrelevant" violations of the
law relating to traffic-for example, lying down in front
of a bus during a demonstration. Here there is no con
stitutional defense for breaking laws which are meant
to protect the rights of everyone-the socially and legally
acceptable laws. The police should have no qualms about
enforcement in these cases.
Q. What do you think of the ACLU charges of exces
sive bail and indiscriminate jailing in riot cities?
A. I haven't seen the local ACLU report. But I think it's a
good idea for someone to review, always, what a police
department has done in a riot situation. Police depart
ments should welcome it- review is always healthy. As
for imposing high bail for looters-from a legal stand
point, it's questionable. Picking out riot cases as opposed,
say, to robbery or burglary cases, is against the theory of
setting bail.
On the other hand, my sympathies belong to the
Police Department when it comes to a Civilian Review
Board . The Department, like any para-military organiza
tion, is civilian controlled in any event. The Police Super
intendent is responsible to the Police Board and the
Mayor. The experience of cities which have had Civilian
Review Boards demonstrates their ineffectiveness. The
boards must rely on the police to investigate. Even if
they did go out and hire investigators, who would they
hire?-ex-policemen. If you can't trust the police to in
vestigate honestly, who can you trust? But the Police
Board has a very great responsibility to see that all
complaints are investigated thoroughly. There can't be
any sloughing off.
Q. Do you think present
concern about crime is
justified?
A. Citizen alarm is justified. Crime probably is at its highest
level in the history of the country. It's even more alarming
when figures show that the 15 to 16-year-old age group
is responsible for a large number of felonies . And the
population is growing.
People complain when crime hits them. Now it's time
for them to stand up and be counted when asked how
much money they are willing to spend for more police
men, more training, better equipment, for training law
yers for prosecution and defense, for training judges.
People have just been too pinch-penny with law enforce
ment. This is another area where AELE can have some
influence-in getting the public more interested in ob
taining better law enforcement.
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Q. What are your comments on Stop and Frisk Laws?
A. If people would listen to a very simple explanation of
what "stop and frisk" is meant to be, I am sure much
of the present hostility towards the concept, even on the
part of minority groups or ghetto residents, WOUld, or
should, disappear.
Half of the police job is crime prevention. It is not
enough for police-or the community-to be ~ a tisfied
simply with crime solulion. Aggressive police patrol is
part of the crime prevention apparatus. It gives comfort
to the residents of the area being patrolled and it gives
the criminal element second thoughts about the feasibility
of committing offenses in the area. But patrol would be
ineffective if police--seeing suspicious activity-had to
stand by until a crime was committed. They must, there
fore, be given the right to question such persons on the
street and, in some instances, compulsory, temporary
detention will be necessary for that purpose.
If it is reasonable to question persons found on the
street under suspicious circumstances-not arbitrarily ,
but with reasonable suspicion-it would be decidedly
unreasonable to expect police to do so if they could not.
in appropriate instances, frisk before questioning to pro
tect themselves. For in some cases, the answer to the
policeman's questions may be a bullet.
Some will say such a power will be abused. But this
is not a reason for refusing to authorize it. Arrest and
search power may be, and sometimes is, abused by the
police. But the remedies which have been developed in
this area can be utilized to prevent abuse in stop and
frisk cases as well.
Q. Is the role of the police officer changing?
A. Yes, his role is changing, and it's a welcome change for
the Police Department. In the past, the attitude has been,
"We are here simply to enforce law and order-and
that's it."
In any case, the police have too long stood apart.
They've treated the problems of the ghetto simply with
the idea that people who commit crimes must be arrested
and convicted. You can't ignore arrest and conviction, of
course. But if the police can prevent some of the crime
from happening in the first place, by programs such as
Community Workshops, Community Service Sergeants,
and so on, that's crime prevention-as much a part of
crime prevention as aggressive patrol. In the past, there
haven't been enough members of minority groups on
some police forces to have these kinds of programs.
Most of the crime in ghettos is committed against
ghetto residents. They are the ones most often complain
ing and demanding police protection. There was an article
in the New York Times just today about Negro residents
of Queens asking for more police protection.
More than any other single group, police officers'
friends are their colleagues---other police officers. It's
probably because laymen cannot look at a police officer
and see a man. The officer is the villain-the one the
layman blames when he gets a traffic ticket, for example.
The police officer has to do other things besides catch
real crooks, and these things- like telling someOne he
has to keep off his neighbors' grass-cause hostility.
Police officers sense withdrawal on the part of the public,
and they themselves withdraw. I don't know how we are
going to remedy this.
Police work is a profession . We have to re-educate the
public. We have to recruit better men and pay better
salaries. Maybe we have to take away some of the
policeman's non-criminal functions. We might think in
terms-I'm not talking about the immediate future-of
setting up a special traffic control organization, a special
group to deal with drunkenness and alcoholics, another
to serve papers, and so on. Make the police force a
crime-fighting organization with fighting crime its only
purpose.
Q. But don't some functions overlap?
A. There is an overlap, no question about it. Employment
of meter maids is a good example of where you can
separate functions . But a domestic disturbance, for ex
ample, is both a social and criminal problem. It almost
always involves assault, and many of them are potential
homicides, so they take special police techniques to
settle them.
Q. The Citizens' Committee to Study Police-Commu
nity Relations final report opposed a Civilian Re
view Board, but they did suggest a Citizens' Com
plaint Registrar, to be located preferably in the
Civic Center, and also a Complaint telephone num
ber and a P.O. Box. What is your opinion on that?
A. I agree. I think people should be encouraged to make
complaints about any public service. Police have got to
get it through their heads that as members of a profes
sion, officers that are corrupt or rude or incompetent or
brutal must be weeded out. Police Officers themselves
should be just as concerned about throwing incompetents
off the force as the pUblic. I'm in favor of any device
which will focus public attention on the police. This
isn't a "You protect me, I'll protect you, " club. The
spotlight of opinion should be on the police. Phony com
plaints should be exposed. And when complaints turn
out to be phony, it redounds to the credit of the Police
Department.
We might have to seek wider avenues for complaint.
The Complaint Registrar could help people who have
legitimate complaints, who may not want to go to the
police because they fear repetition of the cause for their
complaint. Police should welcome the opportunity to
have false complaints exposed instead of having rumors
whispered about in the ghetto where they could event
ually explode.
Q. What must be done to improve the Police Depart
ment ?
A. We have to have more police. We have to point in the
direction of crime prevention, which is going to mean
more police. We need to pay higher salaries-we're going
to have to pay to compensate those on the force already ,
and for recruitment of better men. We cannot rely too
much on federal money for this. It will have to come
from the City. We're just going to have to pay for this
if we're going to complain about crime. We have to
make sure we're giving police legitimate tools, especially
in the form of legislation. Illinois has the most modern
arrest, search and seizure laws in the country. But we
ought to authorize the use of eavesdropping. Our statute
is the worst in the country. If a kidnapper calls the
parents, the police aren 't even allowed to listen in on
the conversation, even with the consent of the victims.
Q. What about safeguards?
A. Where neither party· consented to the eavesdropping,
we should require issuance of a judicial order authorizing
limited eavesdropping-the time, person, place and so
on. It would be similar to a search warrant. There should
be scrutiny or review of the eavesdropping by somebody
other than the police.
Wiretapping is a separate problem because It IS now
a federal crime. I thing Congress should pass a law
making it legal, and states should be allowed to wiretap
with the same kind of controls as for eavesdropping.
Q. Wha t kind of trend do you foresee for the Supreme
Court?
A. In the areas of arrest, search and seizure, the Supreme
Court has been as liberal with the police as any Court.
I don't look for change there. In the area of confessions,
I don't look for any swinging back of the pendulum. It
would take a Constitutional amendment to change the
law of Miranda now. If anything, the court might clamp
down even further on confessions.
You can't tell about a Justice in advance. With [Jus
tice] Warren's law enforcement background , for example,
you wouldn't have expected him to be so liberal. That's
why I don 't think Thurgood Marshall is going to go
"straight down the line" as everyone is predicting. I
think he's going to be a "swing man."
Q. Are you active as a lawyer?
A. I have a very small practice-all on the Appellate level,
mostly indigent cases. I have an indigent death penalty
case now-by appointment of the Supreme Court. I
can't see why a lawyer can't do prosecution, defense and
police work-all three, and at the same time, though not
in the same case. England does it very successfully. I
think it's much healthier. That way, you don't become
part of either the law enforcement apparatus or the
defense apparatus.
*
OCTOBER ,
1967
5
Competitioll Night at Alexian Brothers
something for everyone who attended.
ow
DOES A LOST CAT turn
into a playground for 160
youngsters? When two Youth
Officers named Jerry Gladden and Bob
Bartuch are involved, that's how. Ask
them, and they'll tell you this story.
H
Gladdell
Bartt/eh
It was April 1st, and Gladden and Bartuch were investigating the disap
pearance of a cat. The complainant had pointed out several youths-Ken more Gents, they called themselves and during the talking, the Gents made a complaint of their own: no neighbor
hood recreation area. So the Youth Officers began making inquiries, and hit on the idea of Alex· ian Brothers Hospital. The hospital had an athletic field , a gym, a huge pool. Why not ask the Brothers if they'd open their doors to the restless young sters? The Story of an Idea a nd How it Grew
Program Takes Shape
Over lunch, agreement was made
and a program devised which called
for direct supervision by parents, broth
ers and community workers. If a child
wanted to join the program, he or she
would have to come to the Hospital at
1200 W. Belden, take home a permis
sion slip for parents signature, and
abide by all the rules set up during
the days that followed.
How did the program fare? Take a
look at the evening of August 30th,
five months later--Competition Night
at Alexian Brothers. More than 250
guests and parents showed up to cheer
on the 93 youngsters who were swim
ming their hearts out in the pool. The
event lasted two and one-half hours.
There were displays, refreshments, and
87 donated trophies.
"The most amazing thing to me that
night was the parent interest," explained
Sgt. Stanley Gonka, Area #6 Youth.
"There often is a big problem getting
the parents to come, but not here . The
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enthusiasm has stayed. The people are
really working it out."
Link to JYDP
Sgt. Gonka directs the Joint Youth
Development Project out of the 18th
District, one of four Districts now in
volved in the four-year-old City-Fed
eral program. Both Gladden and Bar
tuch are JYDP youth officers.
The program itself is umbrella-like
in effect. Under one roof of coopera
tion and communication, it brings to
gether the area's community organi
zations, family service committees,
schools, employment agencies, housing
and health groups, ~nd law enforce
ment agencies of all types. JYDP's
main aim: Immediate and continued
help for the youngster in trouble. In
the 18th District alone, there are 25
community referral organizations. As
Sgt. Gonka explained:
"I can pick up this phone right now
and get 35 or 40 people to help right
away."
This finger-tip action is one of the
reasons the Alexian Brothers program
worked so well. One of the first com
munity workers contacted to help in
the planning was Mrs. Lorelei Lettvin,
Director of the Multi-Service Center at
2351 North Southport. She too, was
impressed by the work of the parents
and local residents. Mrs. Lettvin and
her staff of six do what she termed
"out-reach" work which includes the
conducting of adult English classes.
Brother Maurice of the Alexian
Brothers School of Nursing stressed the
supervision angle.
"It was agreed from the beginning
that we would not assume day-to-day
responsibility for supervision. And it's
never been necessary. The program
just gives us more of a chance to meet
the neighborhood people."
The Brother said they hoped to in
crease the use of the gym. He was
definite about continuing the swim
ming program through the winter. As
it works out now, the 7 to 12-year-olds
swim after school on Mondays (boys)
and Tuesdays (girls) . The teens from
13 to 18 use the pools on Wednesdays
(boys) and Fridays (girls).
The youngsters themselves like tbe
activity too much to violate any of
the rules. There has never been any
loitering in the Hospital on "off-days."
And that's how it haPl?ened. If we 're
lucky, maybe there'll be another cat
disappearance sometime.
15 New Video Tubes Insta lled in R&C ORE NEW "first in the nation"
equipment for the Chicago
Police Department. Where?
At the Hot Desk and in the Commu
nications section.
As Capt. Carl Miller, Director
of Records and Communications, ex
plained its purpose:
"The questions we get from the men
in the field need an immediate response.
They need answers now, the faster the
better."
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One oj tIle 15 Cathode Ray Tubes
The 15 new units- 4 at the Hot
Desk, 11 in Communications-are
called cathode ray tubes. They're not
as imposing as their name sounds. The
tubes look like small portable televi
sion sets with a typewriter keyboard at
the bottom. The 15 video units are
replacing 12 computer typewriter sta
tions. The biggest advantage is that
they minimize on-line inquiry time to
the Data Systems Computer.
The old typewriter units were con
nected directly to the information
storage discs in the Data Systems com
puter. There were two buffers for all
12 units. The buffers would hold the
inquiry until the officer finished typing
it out, then relay it into the computer.
The buffer could be tied up as long as
two to three minutes with an inquiry
on a wanted person, for instance. If
there were more than two inquiries at
anyone time, someone would have to
wait.
Each of the new tubes has its own
buffer, so that the operator can enter
his inquiry into the buffer and remain
"off-line" until the direct line to the
computer is open. When the. entry be
gins, a format is flashed on the screen,
and the operator merely fills in the
blanks. A push of the transmit button
sends the prepared question immedi
ately into the computer.
The operator no longer receives a
typewritten reply. Instead, the answer
is flashed on the screen, and the opera
tor can immediately relay the informa
tion to the officer on the street.
The electronic units do have a print
out capability in case a written copy
of the question and answer is needed.
A total of 200 police radio dis
patchers and 30 Field Inquiry person
nel were trained to use the new units .
Installation was completed at the end
of September.
REMINDER
If you have not already done
so, please send in your Reader
ship Survey cards whether you
are a Department member or
not. We want cards and com
ments from everyone. We will
respond personally to as many
comments as we can; many
others will be printed in later
issues of the Star.
COMMISSION FOR CORSENTINO Ptlmn. Anthony Corsentino, 18th
District, receives the oath of office
from his brother, Second Lieutenant
Thomas Corsentino, 24, during a re
cent ROTC graduation at DePaul
University.
The 26-year-old police officer is a
Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army
and received a direct commission in
the Military Police Corps. He is now
at Fort Gordon, Georgia for nine
weeks of orientation.
Corsentino joined the Department
four months ago and has already been
awarded nine Honorable Mentions. He
earned a law degree from DePaul
while working nights on the police
force.
Award of Valor HE AWARD OF VALOR was presented posthu
mously September 19 to Geraldine Stallworth, widow
of Ptlmn. Herman Stallworth. Ptlmn. Stallworth was
shot and killed by a motorist he had stopped last May 23rd.
This is the fourth Award of Valor to be presented to an
officer killed in the line of duty ; it is the 29th to be given
since the Award was established in 1962.
Ptlmn. Stallworth, a father of four, had an outstanding
record as a Chicago policeman. During his eight years of
service, he earned two Honorable Mentions and three
Department Commendations.
In addition, the 37-year-old officer had earned an Associate
Degree from Crane Junior College and had accumulated 68
hours of credit at Chicago College in the field of medical
technology.
T
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Mrs. Stallworth with Supt. Conlisk (L)
Watch Cmdr. Lawrence Lyoll.
and 3rd Dist.
OCTOBER,
1967
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Traffic Men of the Month
Two officers have been named July's
Traffic Men of the Month for the ar
rest of three teen-agers involved in a
robbery-murder.
Harris
Edison
Cited by the Citizen's Traffic Safety
Board were Ptlmn. Charles Harris,
*4492, 2nd District, and Ptlmn. David
Edison, *11758, Task Force Area #2,
(formerly of the 2nd District). Harris ,
30, has been with the Department for
five and one-half years. Edison, 23, has
served for one year.
On July 16th, Harris and Edison
investigated an accident involving three
Pension Revision:
What It Means to You
There's been an increase in your
pension payroll deduction. The in
crease, which took effect September
1st, resulted from amendments to the
Police Pension Law passed by the State
legislature.
Below are examples of how the
change will show up on your paycheck :
UNDER 57 AT THE TOP GRADE
DEDUCTION
old
new
PUmn. . ..... $27 .72 ..... . .. $29.45
Sgt. ..... . . . . 33.40 ........ 35.49
Lt. . . ... ... .. 38.68 ... .. ... 41.10
Capt. .... . ... 42.60 ... .. ... 45.26
OVER 57 AT THE TOP GRADE
PUmn. . . . ... $24.26 . ..... . . $25 .99 Sgt. .... .. ... 29.23 ........ 31.31 Lt. ... . . .. ... 33.85........ 36.26 Capt......... 37.28 .. .. .... 39.94 Amendments and additions to the
Illinois Pension Code are specified in
Department Notice 67-42.
As far as retired annuity is con
cerned: Basically, the changes mean
that at present salary scale, a patrol
man, at age 64, will receive approxi
mately $88 a year additional in pension
payment.
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news .·
news
teen-agers. The youths gave evasive
answers and the officers asked for iden
tification. The driver handed over a
wallet with identification belonging to
a man who had been found dead in
Washington Park earlier that day. The
man had died from multiple gun shot
and stab wounds in the back .
The youths were taken to the station
where detectives established that the
car belonged to the dead man. A .22
caliber revolver and box of ammuni
tion were found in the glove compart
ment. A metal suitcase along with
bloodstained clothing were found in the
trunk.
Later, detectives found the knife
used in the murder. Crime Lab tech
nicians determined that the revolver
was the one used in the crime.
COMMANDCHANGES THREE MAJOR APPOINTMENTS
were made September 18th by Supt.
James B. Conlisk, Jr.
Capt. Patrick Needham, Director of
Planning, was named Executive As
sistant to the Superintendent. Capt.
Raymond L. Clark, Administrative As
sistant to Capt. Needham, was ap
pointed Director of Planning. G.
Hobart Reinier, Executive' Assistant to
the Superintendent, replaced Richard
Golden as head of Data Systems.
Golden, who had been with . the De
partment since 1963, resigned to be
come Assistant Director of the City's
Data Processing ControL The Director
of the City's Data Processing is George
Gorgol, formerly Executive Assistant
to O. W. Wilson. Biographies ·~~li ow.
CAPT. PATRICK V. NEEDHAM.
Joined Department in 1956. Assigned
to Youth Division in 1957, promoted
to Youth Officer in 1960, to Sergeant
in 1961 , to Lieutenant May 1961, to
Captain in June 1962.
Appointed as Direc
tor of Records and
Communications iIi
1964, appointed Di
rector of Planning in
1966.
Attended St. Bonaventure School ,
DePaul Academy, University of Chi
cago. Was first American selected to
ew
DO YOU KNOW ..• That in 1966 the Public Informa tion Division: • Issued 4463 credentials (press, of
ficial business, consular, emergency,
medical, etc.).
• Arranged for 2,631 speaking en
gagements for Department members.
• Set up 965 ride-alongs.
• Took 40,759 people on conducted
tours of Headquarte·rs.
• Issued 487 press releases.
• Handled 87,010 information requests
by letter or in person and 122,804 by
telephone .
• Supervised 906,104 visitors to the
Exhibit Cruiser.
• Distributed 181 ,640 copies of the
monthly Police Star.
attend Senior Staff Course at Bramshill
Police College, England .
Served III U.S. Army 1950-53.
Earned two Department Creditable
Mentions.
34, married , six children .
CAPT. RAYMOND L . . CLARK.
Joined the Department in 1948. As
signed to the Traffic Division, to De
tective Division in
1953, promoted to
Sergeant , 1960, to
Lieutenant 1961,
transferred to Patrol
Division and promot
ed to Captain in 1962,
assigned to Planning Division, 1967.
Attended Wright Junior College and
DePaul University, graduated from
Northwestern University Traffic In
stitute.
Served with U.S. Navy 1943-46.
41, married , six children.
G. HOBART REINIER. Patrolman and sergeant in Zion, Ill. Research As
sistant for Department of Safety, Mich
igan State University. Appointed Adm. Asst. to Chief of Police, S!. Louis , then ap
pointed Manager of Operations of Data Systems. Named Ex ecutive Asst. to Superintendent in 1966. Attended Albion, Lake Forest Col
lege, Michigan State University. Earned
Bachelors Degree in Police Administra
tion in 1960.
35 , married, four children.
THE BLUE LIGHT 1st District: Our condolences to Ptlmn.
Charles Mandel and family on the death
of his brother and to retired Ptlmn. Fred
Brennan on the death of his son . . .
Vice Off. Ed Holden passed out (cigars
that is) after wife Melodee gave birth to
Shannon Eileen 24 August. Not to be
outdone, Ptlmn. Ken Wilcox gave out
cigars after wife Catherine presented
him with Thomas Joseph on 6 Sept ....
Affable Ptlmn. Mike Connolly resigned
on pension 1 Sept. . . . Congratulations
to Ptlmn. Jim Hays, Mike Bresnahan, Art
Bischoff and Dennis Krasinski who
earned Honorable Mention Awards for
good police work. Spare time will run
out for Ptlmn. Mike Hurley on 30 Sept.
for thereafter he will be known as Mrs.
Mike Hurley's husband ... Capt. Harold
Fleming will have camping equipment
to sell when he returns from furlough.
We hope his vacation was as enjoyable
as it is for us to be associated with
him ... Polwmn. Boles went on disabili
ty pension . . . Ptlmn. Irvin Johnson re
signed 27 July . . . Words cannot ex
press my sincere appreciation for the
assistance rendered me by Irv Hayden
who helped me move recently, "by
truck. "
-Ptlmn. George Thiese
2nd District: Cmdr. Robert M. Harness'
Youth Program sponsored 52 boys and
girls to Expo '67. W. Dugan, W. Glass
and K. Smith were on hand to assure a
happy trip and safe return . . . Newly
assigned job, "Officer Friendly," was
awarded to Ptlmn. M. Sykes, a dedicated
worker. Good Luck .. . Commendations:
Traffic Man of the Month Award went
to D. Edison and C. Harris who, from
a traffic stop, took into custody two
felons wanted for murder. Also cited
were Ernest Jones and Ed Kodatt for
the arrest of two youths charged with
the rape of a 16 yr. old girl .. . Honor
able Mentions were awarded to Phil Bur
ton and J. Battistella for preventing a
jewelry store robbery and to M. Ryan
and C. Patnode for apprehending a bur
glar with the proceeds. Good work .
Celebrity: Bob Miller, a drummer, is re
cording a rock and roll hit record . . .
Sports: Our soft ball team finished
strong this year, but lost i n the play-offs.
Nonetheless, our basketball team will
surprise all . . . New borns: I'll take 10
lashes with a wet duck feather for for
getting Jon Eric Simmons, born to Char
lene and Johnny. H. Liggett's wife pro
duced an 8 lb. 11 oz. robust boy. 1 cigar
please . . . Wm. Kristovic's son Robert
is serving Uncle Sam and is stationed
at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. . . . Sick
Bay: G. Lenzy is still recovering from a
bullet wound. I visited H. Donegan and
K. Manuel, both at Michael Reese Hos
pital recovering from an illness and in
good spirits .. . Sincere condolences to
Sgt. Breckenridge whose father passed
away and to DeCuir on the loss of his
brother ... In the case of Sgt. Fowler's
missing lunch bag, check F. Hackle's
file cabinet.
-Ptlmn. Louis Shelley
3rd District:
The month did produce
a few sad moments including the death
of Ptlmn. Johnny Boyd, the mother of
Maurice (Goodie) Brown and the mis·
fortune of Brian Regan and his wife
Lorraine . . . Jim McCloud and Loretta
were blessed with another son and his
name will be Ivan . . . Sad but happy
Joe Urbas has retired after 25 years of
honorable service . . . We lost a fine
supervisor in Lt. E. Walliser who has
been transferred to A. #2-Burg. Other
standout transfers are Sgt. Jim Gorman
to 6th Dist. and John Gallagher to CCR.
Best of luck fellows . . . Our new Vice
Coordinator is Bob Walsh. Congrats,
Sarge . . . Congratulations to our honor
roll for the month of August and give
special homage to Luther Arnold, Frank
Rappaport, Carl Harris, Don Swanson,
Tom Farogoi, Phil Cullotta, Norman
Stubitsch, Dan Benoit, Sgt. Dick Scan
lon, Sgt. John Kelly for their apprehen
sion of persons involved in purse snatch
ing, armed robbery, grand theft and at
tempted murder . . . C. U. Black and
Harold Carroll also did a fine job while
apprehending a rapist . . . Our "Three
Star Salute" goes to Larry Britt and Earl
Davis w~o captured two armed robbers
in the act of kidnapping and robbing a
0 e Collecting Agent . . .
Bell Tp.'
Make way for the grand parade. Our
Drum and Bugle Corps, under the su
pervision of Paul Yarber, now has real
in stru n ,ents . . . Back to school for
Jerry Kull who is majoring in biology.
Luck, Jerry . . . Our Basketball team ,
under the leadership of Jim Patterson,
is expected to do very well this season ,
-Ptlmn. Art Kimber
4th DI 'rict: All the members of this
District and others wish to express their
sympathy to Off. Sherry on the untimely
death cf his beloved father, formerly of
the 10th D:strict . . . As we said in one
of the previous issues, the 4th District
was going to be the team to beat this
year in the intra-Departmental softball
league, and sure enough we took home
the Superintendent's Trophy. A job well
done fellows! . . . Speaking of jobs well
done, our own Off. Bullwinkle, the pride
of Hegewisch, and Off. "Gripe and
Groan" Lebeter did a tremendous job
filling the shoes of men on furlough .
Offs. "Loose" Loughnane, "Looney"
Lyza and "Befuddled" Butler have been
doing a top notch job of suppressing
crime . . . Congrats to Mr. Baio and
wife on that 9 lb. bouncing baby boy!
. . . Someone overheard Lt. Cronin
bragging about his stock in several
raisin processing companies. What's the
story, Lieutenant? . . . I understand
Crossing Guatd Edna Outland bought
herself a solid gold frame for her recent
Department Commendation . . . Con·
grats to Crossing Guard Pansy Ogrentz'
daughter (Oh what a beautiful doll),
chosen queen of the East Side. 6-4 and
even!
-Ptlmn. Michael F. Fogarty
5th District: Hello There, Welcome to the
Club. Yours truly has just come back off
his annual furlough. The vacation was
fine . . . I only wish that I could have
had an extra day . . . I hear that Miss
Marlyn Brooks spent a nice vacation
in the Bahamas . . . Off. Deotis Leving
ston is trying to get the 5th District
Basketball team together for the season.
All District personnel who are willing to
play, get in touch with Off. D. Leving
ston . . . I understand that a nice offer
has been made Robert (Cousy) Peters
to be the player-coach for the coming
year . . . Charlie Perkins, the chief cus
todian for the 5th Dist. station, is doing
a very fine job, keeping the station
clean and passing on sad jokes to his
fellow workers . . . Off. A. Frazier is very
happy to see the hot weather leave.
Now he won't have to take his hat off
. . . Congratulations to Sgt. S. Johnson
and Youth Off. King for taking the kids
to the ball games this year. I know that
a good time was had by all . . . Hello,
Bill Bonner, how was your vacation this
year? I hope that you and yours had a
-Ptlmn. Robert B. Peters
nice time.
6th District: Welcome to our new cadets,
Pat MacKinney and William C. Bernjelm,
and to Sgt. James Gorman ... Vacation
rebounds-Sgt. Anton Grisz (our favor
ite model), Capt. Satunas with a deep
suntan, and Lt. Con Ryan (slightly heav
ier) and ditto yours truly . . . We were
all delighted to see our good Captain
Doheny return and he is well on the
mend ... Now we are all pulling to see
Sgt. L. Kenney and Ptlmn. Wally Graeber
back in good shape . . . Our Softball
team made the playoffs but only to
strike out-Better luck next year to
Sgt. Kenneth McCann and company ...
Our Commander J. McDermott com
mended 45 of our boys for their excep
tional dedication in clearing up a num
ber of burglaries and auto recoveries.
Ptlmn. James Morton cleared up two in
one night. . . . . Congrats to Ptlmn.
Daniel Williamson and his lovely bride
and Ptlmn. Thomas Quirks and his bride.
The Ed Danahers are all set up in their
new home. Congratulations to Ptlmn.
J. McEnroe on his engagement to Mich·
ele Mikulski . . . It won 't be long now,
our Barber Shop boys will be crooning
again. Secretary Thomas Walsh is back
home recuperating from his trip to Little
Company of Mary Hospital . . . Ptlmn.
Dennis Novak's little son is missing his
two front teeth after a fall. We'll know
what he wants for Christmas . . . Little
five-year-old Jocelyn Allen is now in
Kindergarten. Now her daddy. Ptlmn.
Leon Allen. is her chief worry. She's
wondering who's going to take care of
him while she's in school. So is Steno
Joyce Allen.
-Marian Devenney
7th District: "Top cop" here at 7. Cmdr.
Harold Miles, is on a well deserved fur
lough. We here know how hard he had
labored in keeping the area "cool" . . .
The roars you hear coming from the
front office now are from the Acting
Cmdr., Richard Lionhood . . . Sgt. Wm.
Rafferty and his bride Antoenelle (Toni)
have been blessed with a son Lawrence
William. 8 Ibs., 8 oz. That's three Kings,
one Queen . . . Ptlmn. Eugene Rainey,
Sr. and wife Mary blessed with their first
born "Jr.... 7 Ibs. 15 oz.-Jr. is now
ready for a haircut . . . Ptlmn. Paul Po
tocki passing out the cigars-bouncing
baby boy-no further particulars . . .
Ptlmn. Sam Faro and wife Erno-first
time grandparents--of a beautiful girl.
Michelle, 7 Ibs .• 12 oz. . . . Rumor has
it that "what's-his-name" has sold all his
stock of the "pill" . . . Our Asst. Dist.
Sec'y "Bill" Harvey and wife Janet re
ceived a bundle from heaven, a darling
girl. Donna Marie, 7 Ibs. 15 oz. Tony
LoBianco, the "top" sec'y, has previous
ly tagged Harvey as a duffer on the
links. Now duffer Harvey has come up
with a trophy . . . Asst. Desk Sgt. Rob
ert Vanderploeg. 33 on the Sgt.'s list,
is getting mighty impatient . . . Our
suave, cool and calm Asst. Desk Sgt.
Tony Mascolino and his bride Margaret
(Marge) have just returned to the States
from an extended tour of London and
Wales visiting Marge's folks , who live
in London . . . Our two sleuths , Ptlmn.
Ceasar Gay. 240 Ibs., 6'3 " and his part
ner, Thomas W_ Bell, 250 Ibs., 6'2", the
watchdogs of the Englewood business
area, are mighty proud as we are here
at 7, about their winning a commenda
tion from the Englewood Business Men's
Association.
-Ptlmn. Wilbur Higgins
8th District: Welcome to Ptlmn. J. Salle
and T. Glynn . . . As of this writing our
Commander Marty O'Connell is in Holy
Cross hospital doing very well after sur
gery. All his gang here at "8" wish him
a speedy recovery. The bowling season
is with us once again. John Pitak in
forms us that the league is comprised
of twelve teams this year. Pitak also
said (Quote), that his Pink Elephants will
go all the way again this year. (The
Champs for the past two years) . . .
The Crossing guards are back in full
swing. We also welcome two new guards,
Marge Altman and Dorothy Norberg ...
The boys are getting all keyed up over
their coming 8th District golf outing to
be held 25 September. "FORE." I'm
sure all will have an enjoyable day . ..
Helen Hannon. Bill Hannon's wife, is
home and recovering after minor sur
gery at Little Company of Mary hospital.
-Ptlmn. Vince O'Grady
13th District: All at 13 wish a speedy
recovery to Sgt. John Higgins, who while
on furlough in Miam i Beach was taken
seriously ill. and at this writing is under
intensive care at St. Francis Hosp_. Fla.
· .. Cadet Patrick Dwyer donated a pint
of blood to a 6-yr.-old boy who went for
ear surgery, and then Pat turned around
and got married to a very lovely girl.
Anna Marie . . . I was told that some
of the men in our M.C.U. are getting
married. but as yet have no names . . .
Ted Janus still refused to buy the new
hat even after his dog chewed to threads
his old one . . . Jim Hester spent his
vacation in northern Wis., and all he
could say about it was " The fishing was
lousy" ... Our Steno Irma Moody spent
her vacation in the Wisconsin Dells, en
joying swimming and horseback riding
· . . John Gorman's nephew, Frank
Smith, qualified for the Natl. Amateur
Golf Tournament at a cold shooting, 308
· .. From the CCR, I was talking with
R. Hynes, H. Hewitt, and T. St. John,
asking them how everything was in Z-4,
and leave it to H. Hewitt to say "Hmmm
you mean Adverture land" ... Welcome
back to John Gianos after spending four
months with the Army reserves . . . A
little credit must go to Lt. Garcia for
the many hours he spent typing up
those Honorable Mentions our men have
earned . Please let me know if you had
an honorable mention lately and I failed
to mention your name . . .
-Ptlmn. Patrick Shannon
Sgt. J. Martin and wife
15th District:
had a fourth blessed event on 26 Au
gust with the birth of Joan Terese who
weighed in at 5 1/ 2 pounds . Congrats to
the "Sarge." . . . R. Morse seems to
be smiling a lot lately. maybe 'cause he
tied the nuptial knot on 5 August_ Best
wishes to both .. . D. Doyle is develop
ing the best legs in the Dept., thanks
to beat 1513 and the "L" station . . .
J. Dowling and C. Greco grabbed a bur
glar on a drugstore roof on 13 Sept.
They had some help from yours truly.
Fine work men . . . Believe it or not,
J. Severino pinched two men for bat
tery on 12 Sept. . . . R. McCutcheon
seems to be spreading around the belt
line since he landed that White Castle
job. Good hamburgers, Mac??? . _ . A
late but hearty welcome to J. Kozaritz
who recently joined our small but jovial
family at 15 . . . C. Cannella got a bur
glar who was trying to score on a fellow
officer's apartment on 12 Sept. . . .
15's building manicurist M ax Sikora is
touring Europe at this writing and leav
ing all the work to F. Breen, his as
sistant
-Ptlmn. John Melody
16th District: Our sincere sympathy to
Crossing Guard Bridget Cassata on the
loss of her dear son Orrin who was killed
in Viet Nam. We also express our con
dolences to Shane Sarathian on the loss
of his father. George ... Congratulations
are in order to Sgt. Joe Rylko and his
Tactical Unit. Since being formed. thE
Unit has been responsible for numerous
arrests for all types of violations rang·
ing from narcotic offenses, auto theft,
glue sniffing, including clearing our
parks of the youthful alcohol imbibers
and trouble makers. There is a long
waiting list of members who wish to
become a part of this Unit. Heading the
list are John Garvey, Joe Sofere, Hank
Burzych, etc. . . . Tom Angelo is the
proud father for the 1st time-his lovely
wife presented him with a baby girl
Jill Marie. Miervaldis Leititis is also a
proud father. His sweet wife presented
him with their 3rd child. a baby boy,
Peter . . . There are a lot of stories
going around as to how my nose was
broken-i.e.: the boss did it because he
caught me taking his cigars from his
desk drawer, because I took his French
donut, my wife did it because I pay all
other members' wives compliments and
not her. Well, none of the foregoing are
true. I walked into the door leading into
my office. I know it sounds unbelievable,
but it is the truth.
-Ptlmn. Louis Bruzzini
17th District: Offs. Jim Cavanaugh, Jer
ry Soskin. Richard Hyland and John
Herold were visited by the stork just
recently and, at this writing, Off. Tom
Skelly is standing by awaiting the arrival
of his new addition. Ptlmn. John Kachka
is nervously waiting for a call to take
his ever loving to the delivery room for
his first bundle of joy. Congratulations
to all the happy parents . . . Ptlmn.
Donald De Franza will be married on 9
September and is taking his bride to
the Poconos for the honeymoon . . .
We welcome Ptlmn. Fred Harmon. Rob
ert Lumpp and John Ryan to our happy
group and we are glad to have the two
new Cadets on board. Cadet Christopher
Wojtkiewicz and Cadet William Duffy ...
Congratulations to Ptlmn. Robert Fran
cesoni. David Gould and Philip Onesto
on receiving Honorable Mentions for
outstanding police work. As a result of
their diligent investigation, they rid the
streets of Chicago of an armed and
dangerous felon who had an arrest rec
ord dating back 20 years.
-Marge Happs
18th District: Cynthia Gruber. wife of
John Gruber Jr., the Asst. Sec'y at 18,
is expecting a little stranger around the
27th of Nov. They are hoping for a boy
. .. Condolences to the families of John
Ryan on the death of his father and
George Swagler on the passing of his
mother . . . Sgt. Joe Loporchio suffered
a slight heart attack and is in Grant
Hospital. Send him a card to help him
get better ... Tom Ullrich and his bride
Susan are spending their honeymoon at
the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev. He
has a bottle in the room so that any
visitors from 18 who arrive can toast his
new bride . . . AI McCormick tells me
his daughter Lisa Ann is going to cele
brate her 1st birthday on 17 Sept We
are sorry that we omitted her arrival.
We are now squared away, Delores Mc
Cormick __ . SP / 4 Peter Nicolini Jr. was
killed in Viet Nam and his father, Peter
Nicolini Sr., was awarded two Bronze
Stars for action his son performed while
trying to save two other wounded bud
dies . _ . Welcome to Kay Langerman
(Bub) who came to us from the 20th
Dist. Their loss is our gain . . . Gordie
Morris is still selling his home on the
Northwest side . . . The 18th District
placed 3rd in Softball Finals. _ . "THE
LITHUANIAN EAGLE."
-ptlmn. John R. Daciolas
20th District: Best wishes to Sgt. Bud
Connors on his retirement. A party at
the Elks Lodge will be held in his honor
. . . Harry Delaney will retire in the
near future. He has 100 years with the
force but wants one more year for a
better pension . . . Our deepest sym
pathy to Chester Olech, the 20th District
custodian, on the passing of his mother
. . _ Honorable Mentions were given to
J. Moynahan, R. Einwiller and J. Smith
ers, for outstanding duty . .. Dick Mor
ask made a good arrest in a gun case
but failed to be recognized. This will
bring some attention to his good work _
Dick has been lockup keeper for the past
month and everyone has commented he
looks natural behind bars . _ . Bernard
Finnigan and wife Cathy had an arrival
at their home. The baby boy weighed
6 pounds.
-ptlmn. Dennis Salemi
Communications Section: Congratulations
to Ted Gabryszewski, Harry Kenerson,
John Krettler and John Wagner upon
receiving a 3rd Marksman Trophy at the
I.P.A. Summer Shoot. We can always
depend on them to bring back a prize
_ . . Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Edward (Batman) Adams who celebrated
their 30th wedding anniversary on the
21st of August. Ditto to Mr. and Mrs,
Harold Osmundsen who celebrated their
32nd wedding anniversary at Pell Lake
__ . Peter Balskus wishes to extend his
gratitude to those members, especially
a certain Zone 3 Dispatcher, who con
tributed to his well being at the last two
golf outings . . . Lt. James Council and
Mrs. have moved to their new apart
ment on 1130 So. Michigan Ave. No
more transportation problems travelli ng
to and from work! _ . _ A hearty welcome
to new telephone operators , Ann Cun
ningham, June Lilly, Helen Badzmierow
ski and Evelyn Sloan. A fond farewell to
Helen Dombrowski, Winifred Nee, Elaine
Duddleston and Helen McGuire . . .
Mable Higgins spent a happy reunion
with her sisters in California during her
furlough .. _ If you have any problem
with flying mice, see Eddie Adams. He's
a top hunter in this field! Auf Wieder
sehen!
-Sgt. Edward T. Haas
Office of the Superintendent: Miss Dar
lene Hawes of the Personnel Division,
Medical Section, has announced her en
gagement to Mr. William Pierce . . .
Our sincere condolences to Cliff Dorn
and his family on the recent death of
his father .. _ Tom Kelly was angered
with me for not announcing the latest
addition to the Kelly clan-this is num
ber seven. Records are made to be
broken. _ . We have heard that the Per
sonnel Panthers will not field a football
team this year because of the bruising
defeat they suffered last year at the
hands of the Planning Division TIGERS
. . _ Wayne Kerstetter of the Planning
Division recently took the bar examina
tion-the best of luck from all. (Are
the services free?) . . . If you're in need
of advice on the stock market, see Sgt.
John Keady (the buy RAM kid) . . _
Norris Berenzweig is leaving the Depart
ment for the armed services (six month
tour) and promises to return . . . We
have heard from an unreliable source
that Peggy Collins now carries a can
of gasoline whenever she goes out.
WHY? . . . PID says good-bye to Sgt.
Sherwyn Bloome. His staff-meeting hu
mor will sure be missed. And a welcome
to Cadets Bud "Seig Heil" Krause and
Stan "Pax Directory" Turner . . .
-ptlmn. C. Maynard Farber
Bureau of Staff Services: A retirement
party honoring Chief Clerk Jerry Keenan
of the Record Inquiry Section was held
on Tuesday, Oct. 10. . .. Congratula
tions to Lt. Raymond D. McCann, Com
manding Officer, Automotive Pounds
Section, and Patricia J. LaTessa who
were married on Sept. 16th . Lt. McCann
has taken a leave from the Department
and his duties have been taken over
by Sgt. Walter Mooney . . . We wish
many years of health and happiness to
ptlmn. Stanley Kozel, Central Detention,
on his retirement . . . Sgt. Tom Barrett
and ptlmn . Joe Schelka, Central Deten
tion, were in Wisconsin on their fur
loughs ... ptlmn. Charles Lavelle toured
Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona,
while ptlmn. Jim Bouse headed for
Florida , and Police Matron Dorothy
Sheehy spent a long weekend in Las
Vegas . . . We would like to welcome
back ptlmn. Dan Hayes after his long
and serious illness .. . Congratulations
to Rita O'Leary, the daughter of Police
Matron Betty O' Leary, who was awarded
the title "Miss Congeniality " by the Pa
tricia Stevens Modeling School . . . We
would like to welcome Thomas Tatum
and Nadine Weber to the Reproduction
and Graphic Arts Section .. . Off. Wil
liam Malito and his wife Shirley, along
with Off. Robert Rettenbacher and his
wife, will take a beautiful trip abroad.
Congratulations and best of luck to Dir.
Richard Golden, Data Systems Division,
on his new appointment to Assistant
Director of Data Processing for the City
of Chicago . Good luck to G. Hobart
Reinier, Executive Assistant to the Su
perintendent, who will be the new Direc
tor of Data Systems Division.
-Audrey LaBash
Bureau of Inspectional Services: Forgive
my truancy for the past couple of edi
tions. Missed deadlines owing to pres·
sure of other preoccupations. Did you
miss me? Anyway, will try to catch up
now on some of the scuttlebut, etc.
. . . Birth greetings to all my friends
under Libra and Scorpio; Messrs. Gor
ski, Klasen, Kaufman, Hart, Turner, et al.
Many happy returns . . . Belated bien
venido to "UII" Gusich after her ' siege
in the hospital. She seems to be her
old charming self again . . . Also be
lated-welcome to David Coffey from
VCD and farewell to John J. Walsh who
retreated to his pension. Understand he
is now in r.e. biz. . . . An accolade to
Lt. Harold Niemann and Sgt. Dave Mo·
zee by Personnel for the valuable as
sistance with the Spanish class. Estan
dos hombres agudos! . . . Sgt. "Elmo"
Suerth has a talented daughter active
in summer stock. She recently jetted to
New York to attend a drama convention .
Nice to have a good actress in the fam
ily! . .. Director Ryan's "Buckeye" bud
dy, our famous Mike "Z," is back after
some rather irksome surgery. He's OK
now, though; we knew he'd be all right
in the end . . . Dir. John Neurauter
again added to his fabulous Maraca col·
lection while on furlough . . . Leaving
on my furlough now, so toodle·oo hasta
mes proximo.
-Art Curda
Task Force: Hdqtrs.; Tom (the bomb)
O'Malley will be coming back from Yel
lowstone Pk. and Hank (the fisherman)
returned also . . . Goodbye and good
luck to Helene Newman . . . Sgt. Walsh
will be leaving us when Sgt. Marcinak
comes back from furlough. It's been
nice, Sgt. Walsh, but we miss George
. . . Area # 1: Congrats to Pltmn. Mc
Govern for the certificate of achieve
ment received from the Amer. Legion.
It was awarded for outstanding services
rendered to his community . . . Con
grats to ptlmn. Lacien, and to ptlmn.
Plebanski .on their recent additions of
little boys. Area # 2: Brian Miller and
Pat are expecting a new baby any day.
LeRoy Marcianik is going to be a father.
Congrats on # 11 .. . John Malone has
been put on a disability pension . . .
Kinsella is going on a diet . . . Bob
Connelly bought a cottage on Loon Lake
. . . DiGrazia is going into the Army in
Jan . . . . Area # 4: Congrats to the base
ball team headed by Capt. Mikrut. With
his help, the team came in first . . .
Congrats to ptlmn. Masenis for the new
addition to his family . . . A speedy
recovery to Sgt. Sheridan ... A welcome
is extended to Cadet Kelly and good luck
to Ciamprone who is leaving for the
Army. Area # 6: Theme song is "Don't
sleep in the Subway Darling." Congrats
to Ray Minas and his new Mrs. . . .
-Helene Newman
Detective Area # 1: Congratulations to
Youth Division's recently married police
women, Cathy (Ingram) Johnson and
Judy (Heelan) Pierce . . . It looks like
this is the season for Granddads . Ken
Rose is very happy to announce the
birth of his granddaughter Dianne Lynn
Rose, the 1st girl born in the Rose fam
ily in 50 years. Just in time for Ken's
28th year wedding anniversary. Tony
Leuver was so happy with the birth of
his granddaughter that he passed out
cigars. Not to be outdone was Det_ John
Sullivan. His son John and his wife
Janice, presented him with Kevin Pat
rick on 18 July. John's son is an Army
Sgt. stationed at Fort Hood, Texas . . .
Best of luck to Det. Robert Utter who
recently took a leave of absence to
work as an investigator for the Govern
ment in Viet Nam . . . Roy Olsen is in
fair condition at the South Shore Hos
pital after an automobile accident 8 Sep
tember 1967 . . . Condolences to Ed
ward Wodnicki and John Ferguson, both
of whom lost their mothers recently
. . . JoAnn Tomlin's new electric type
writer certainly has shocked the girls
and left them drooling . .. Retired Ken
Blue, now living in Florida, payed a
visit to Area # 1 and said hello to all
of his friends.
-Det. Donald Bullington
Detective Area #3: Adolph Urban, Area
#3 Desk, has just returned from his
annual weekend at the Boy Scout Camp,
states the meals were excellent, but
the jiggers were awful. While at camp
he certified 30 Junior Policemen to
squelch the itch .. . The Youth Division
welcomes back the School Patrolmen
after being detailed away for the sum
mer months, and especially to William
"Ali" and Peter "Gallagher," who are
newly assigned to Area #3 . . . Nobody
enjoys a joke as much as Sgt. Flynn,
especially when he tells it. He laughs
so much, he isn't able to finish it .. _
Anderson and O'Connor are life-long
members of the Detectives Admiration
Society . . . Dets. S_ Porrevecchi and F.
Salvatore, along with W_ Griffin and F.
Juraska, joined forces and exercised a
great arrest to exterminate an offender
from society . . . O'Shea and Crescenzo
were really up in the air while on extra
dition to San Diego, California . . .
Just about everyone has lost a few
pounds since Frances Walters has been
home recuperating from a recent auto
mobile accident. Everyone wishes her a
speedy recovery . . . Marge Ke lly spent
most of her vacation studying for final
exams . . . Lt_ Vrodolyk recently cele
brated his 10th Wedding Anniversary.
Congratulations! . . . Sgt. Pazak wasn't
exactly complaining about the cool sum
mer, but it was the constant strong head
wind his pigeons had to fly into all
summer.
- Marge Fallon
Detective Area # 4 : General Assignment
-Detectives will come and go but one
will live in memory for many years as
the true image of an ideal public ser
vant. He is Frank Novak_ With mixed
emotions, Frank retired on Sept. 1st,
leaving a void that will be hard to fill.
Happy and healthy retirement . . .
Autos-Roger Stack met with a near
tragic accident wh ich necessitated hos
pitalization for a month . Best wishes for
a speedy and complete recovery . . .
Sgt. John Ouch seems on the road to
complete recovery from a long illness.
Welcome back . . . Homicide--We wel
come Joseph C. Cavanaugh, a transferee
from the State's Attorney, and we bid
farewell and best wishes to Arthur Han
ratty, transferred to V.C.D. . . . Robbery
-Farewell to Lou Cuddy, transferred to
V.C.D., and Dan Tow nsend, now with
Area #6-Burglary .. . Congratulations
to Frank Haidinyak on the birth of Na
dine Marie. Mother and daughter are
doing fine . . . Burglary-Tim O'Meara
has returned to duty after a prolonged
absence due to an accident. Welcome
back.
-Jo hn R. Bodkin
Detective Area #6: Ray Walztoni and
family had a great time on their camping
trip even though they had nightly visits
from a stubborn raccoon who insisted
in sharing their tent . . . OOOPS, I
goofed Dept. Han k Machina was not con
fined to a hospital, it was his wife, and
she presented Hank with a lovely new
daughter. Congratulations . . . Jean
ette LaRue has been made secretary
of her bowling league . . . The whole
building is talking about the wonderful
job done by Actg. Lt. Horkay during Lt.
Feindt's furlough . .. Roy Jablonski is
moving to his new home, and Sgt. Cag
ney is worried that his pool table won 't
fit . . . Dets. Starzyk and Demko were
at their usual fine style at Jim Madden's
daughter's wedding, and a good time
was had by all .. . Welcome to Joe Zac
caganini, assigned to GA . . . John De
vine had a spectacular trip thru the
Canadian Rockies, but as yet no one
has been able to find out who the friend
was that accompanied him .. . We have
found it was sheer coincidence that saw
Ann McAdow and Ed Sween ey ask for
time due on the same weekend . . .
Willie and Tom Ryan were kept busy
this period and made two fine arrests.
Great work from this father and son
team . . . Cindy Pontoriero is in train
ing school and soon will be known as
Policewoman Pontoriero . Best wishes
Cindy, and lots of good luck.
- Catherine Howson
Traffic Area # 1: Our frustrated athletes
are now attempting to field a basket
ball team. Among the many notables
who have signed the roster is one "Jim
Shoe" who should prove to be a real
winner. _ . Lt. Hubert's daughter, Mar
garet, was married recently during the
Lt.'s furlough . . . Charlie Baumer spent
his baby furlough sitting in a tent up
in the wilds of Canada. Jim Monahan
and Betty are spending their vacation at
Disneyland and Hollywood. Jim hopes to
be discovered while in the film capitol
. . . Dan Creamer added #7, a boy, to
his list of dependents. That makes the
count 4 boys and 3 girls. Have to even
that up, Dan . . . Would you believe
that "Bundles" Collins cut his nose
while shaving, or that "Casey Stengel"
Lyons led his little league team to the
championship . . . The assistant pastor
at St. Peters, Marty O'Brien, retired re
cently. Also, Harry Iwicki. Good luck to
both of you . . . Ray Sullivan turned
frogman recently and rescued a man
from the river for which he was awarded
an Honorable Mention . . . Memo to
Mrs. Glynn: If a husband of mine was
dying his hair black and trying to lose
weight, I'd be suspicious. Bob claims
the dye job was an accident.
-ptlmn. Charlie Jenkins
Traffic Area #4: The honeymooners are
back from Miami Beach . Congratulations
to Jimmy Leyden and his bride. They
spent the month of August in Florida,
while the rest of us spent August on
Details . How about that? . . . Off. Mar
cantonio received a Department Com
mendation for his outstanding job pur
suing, wounding, and disarming a gun
man singlehandedly. The man fired a
shot at Judge Geroulis and wounded a
police officer. Off. Marcantonio showed
courage and exemplary performance-
a credit to his fellow officers . . . Joe
Molino, Traffic Area #4 Custodial Engi
neer, has been put under terrific strain
during the past months with al i the
extra personnel passing through · Area
#4, due to the many details . Joe still
has been able to run a tight ship. Ready
for Award #2, Joe? . . . Lt. Redding
d idn't make it to the Continent but will
try again next year. He wanted to prac
tice his golf game a little more . . .
Sgt. Golden modeled his new checkered
hat. Looks grand with that white top.
. . . We are all looking forward to the
return of our wheel men. Their vehicles
are gathering much dust and no mile
age. Come home boys, your index is
down . . . After a brief absence, Area
#4 has returned to first place again .
The personnel here felt it was time to
let someone else know what it's like to
be number # 1. Well, our generosity has
run out, and we have reclaimed our
position once again . A notice to all other
areas-#2 has to try harder . . . Sgt.
AI Apa is away on furlough and his brief
absence is being felt by all. Come home,
AI . . . Sgt. Vince Santoro has been as
signed Chief of Operations for Area #4's
loop subway Details. From Fireman to
Conductor. What's next, Vince? . .. Sgt.
Cummings is awaiting the arrival of the
new 1968 Police Cars. We have inside
information to the effect that Sgt. Cum
mings gets the first '68 to arrive .. .
One of the Unholy Three, your reporter,
-ptlmn. Rick Luzin
MOSC OW, Russia- -Dur ing the last
year, the Soviet Union has been
battling rising crime. Police pow
ers were increased and penalties
stiffened. The Minister for the
Protection of Public Order, Rus
sia's top policeman, commented that
"i t is necessary to talk less about
rights and more about duties." He
said greater effort was needed to
co~trol "hooligans and drunkards,
th1eves and rapists in this coun
try."
MONTE CARLO, Monaco--Prisoners in
this principali ty will now be able
to spend only Saturdays and Sun
days in jail provided their sen
tence is three months or less. The
new "weekend" penal code stipulates
that each weekend will be counted
as a full weeks' detention.
KANSAS CITY, Kansas--The 18-year
old loyalty oath for public offi
cials and employees has been struck
down by a three-man Federal court.
The state statute was declared un
constitutional after it was chal
lenged by a University of Kansas
psychologist.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--The switch-over
from driving on the left to driving
on the right seems to agree with
the Swede~--at least statistical
ly. Las{year, during the first
week of September, 27 were killed
in .traff ic accidents. The sa.me
week this year--after the change-
showed a toll of nine.
MILA~" ItalY--Rice-throwing is not
just for weddings, as a dismayed
storekeeper discovered. As the wo
man was sweeping up rice from the
sidewalk outside her drugstore, a
thief slipped in and stole $600.
He had scattered the rice as a di
version.
From t he Library Following are a few new books avail
able at the Police Branch of the Mu
nicipal Reference Library, 720 W.
O'Brien.
Materials may be requested, deliv
ered, and returned through Police Mail.
Call Bell 538 or Pax 473. Identify
yourself by name, unit, badge number.
and Pax or Bell number. Books can
be signed out for two weeks and re
newed for two weeks if not in demand.
Visit the Academy Library-come in
and browse!
~EW YORK , N. Y. - -Misdemeanor parole
1S now the complete responsibility
of the State Division of Parole.
Under the revised penal code and
added legislation in 1967, the Ci ty
Parole Commission was disbanded.
As a result, 4276 cases passed to
the control of the state. The City
Parole Commission had been in op
eration since 1915; its staff con
sisted of three full time commis
sio~ers,
53 professional parole
off1cers and a 21-member clerical
staff.
STONY POINT, N.Y .--Four youths
were arrested here by State Police
on drug charges. The four were us
ing an ice cream truck as a front
for their drug-selling operations.
They use d the wagon to set up con
tacts wi th buyers of marijuana and
LSD.
ST. LOUIS, MO.--A liquor.raid a day
keeps the doctor away, or at least
k~eps the old folks happy in this
C1ty. Once a year, the police de
partment delivers confiscated
spiri ts to four homes for the aged.
The spirits are served under medi
cal direction for various thera
peu tic reasons. Only full, capped
bott les with contents intact are
sen t out; home brew and half-empty
bottles are dumped. Deliveries made
in June included 18 cases of hard
li quor, 36 cases of wine, and 109
o1:l.StlS of beer.
Hellhole, by Sara Harris. Dutton, 1967
The shocking story of life in the New
York City House of Detention for
Women. Using the life stories of a few
of its former and present inmates, the
author points out the need for prison
reforms.
The Suspect and Society, by Walter B.
Schaefer. Northwestern University
Press, 1967
The author, a Justice of the Supreme
Court of Illinois, .discusses the legal
problems of police interrogation of SllS
pects. While analyzing the constitu
tional privileges against self incrimina
tion, he offers his solution of a fair
and workable system of criminal pro
cedure with interrogation taking place
before a judicial officer.
NEW YORK , N. Y.--By fall of 1968
New York State will have its first
half-way house for former narcotics
addicts. The center, to be built
in Harlem, will cost $5-$6 million
and will hold 800 occupants. The
half-way houses are part of the
massive rehabilitation program
started in New York April 1st. The
state is now operating seven first
stage residential centers. Eleven
more are planned for the future.
The half-way house takes those who
have completed treatment in the
r~side~tial ?enters. The patient
w111 f1rst 11ve full time at the
home, then spend only days there,
and finally live at home and report
regularly for supervision.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--Crime-fighting
has become harder in the last five
years, Swedish policemen say, be
cause the public will not help.
Kurt Lindroth, general director of
the State Police Board, says that
in the last year and a half, there
have been 941 cases of maltreat
ment, some very serious. In 87 per
cent of the cases, however, police
men were not injured. What worries
authori ties is that, in half of the
cases, passersby simply watched.
WASHINGTON -- The campaign in the
United States for safer cars and
highways is spreading to Europe and
a number of countries in Latin Amer
ica and Asia. Government officials
abroad are making intense studies
much as their American counterparts
have done. The soaring traffic
death is now about 200,000 annually
for the wor Id.
BRAWLEY, Calif.-_This was a real
case of "bugging." Police re
sponded to an alarm in a pay tele
phone booth in a supermarket. It
was a false alarm. The alarm had
been set off by insects.
The Seventh Step, by Bill Sands. New
American Library, 1967
Continuing the story begun in My
Shadow Ran Fast, the author describes
his project of the Seventh Step move
ment which helps ex-convicts in the
world outside prison walls. Mr. Sands
used pre-release training classes at the
Kansas State Prison. His project re
sulted in a certain degree of successful
rehabilitation.
Black Chicago, by Allan H. Spear, Uni
versity of Chicago, 1967
A study of the formation of a Chi
cago Negro community from 1890
1920. The author studies the Ghetto of
that period, analyzes its impact on cur
rent racial tensions, and concludes
there is little difference between the
problems of then and now.
OCTOBER,
1967
13
Sgt. Walsh Enrolls
As Berkeley Student
A MONTH AND A HALF ago,
Sgt. John J. Walsh, 13th District,
packed up one wife, seven children,
and belongings galore and headed for
California. The Sergeant is not vaca
tioning-there is a full year of hard
work ahead. And he's not seeking his
fortune in the West-a $3400 scholar
ship is already in his hands.
Walsh's exit is for
professional reasons.
The 36-year-old Ser
geant has been named
a Fellow under the
Federal Law Enforce
ment Assistance Act.
During the next year, thanks to the
New General Order Regulates Uniforms Making out your Christmas present
Jist? Don't forget to add a handcuff
ci!lse for yourself. You 'll need the
official one anytime you carry cuffs
after May 1st, 1968 . And be sure to
get the black, pre-shaped leather case
with one white metal snap-fastener
specified in General Order 67-18A.
LEAA grant. he will earn his Masters
degree in Criminology at the Univer
sity of California at Berkeley.
In all, thirty officers from across the
country were selected for the Masters
program. Ten will study in Michigan,
ten in New York, and ten in Cali
fornia. It's the first such Masters pro
gram backed by LEAA funds.
Walsh has a degree in Education
from Chicago Teachers College and
has been substitute teaching in Chicago
elementary schools for the past five or
six years. He was born in Chicago,
graduated from Sullivan High School
and now lives on the Northwest side
with his family of eight: his wife Mar
garet, five boys and two girls. The
Walsh clan plans to stay with an uncle
until a furnished home can be located
and rented in California.
Walsh has been a police officer for
ten years. His brother, Sgt. Don Walsh,
works in the Internal Investigations
Division.
becomes regulation tor uniform mem
bers on May 1st next year. The de
scribed cartridge case and holster are
regulation right now and are the only
type members may wear while in
uniform.
Starting May 1st, uniform members
will wear two belts : a trouser belt and
over that, an equipment belt. They will
carry only those leather items outlined
in the Order.
Equipment in addition to that au
thorized by the Order may be worn
only with the permission of the uni
form member's Division head .
PERSONNEL AND TRAINING
The General Order also specifies an
official equipment beit and baton hold
er, and restates the existing specifica
tions on regulation holsters and car
tridge case.
The equipment belt and baton holder
-exactly as illustrated in the Order
14
CHICAGO POLICE STAR
Recruit training resumed in Septem
ber after a halt of three months be
cause of lack of fund s.
Trai ning began on September 5th
with a class of 15 policewomen . This
is the second class of policewomen
since September 1966 to be taken from
the recent Civil Service list. Then, on
the 11 th and 18th, two classes of patrol
men began training, each class with 35
recruits.
An additional 420 men certified by
the Civil Service Commission will be
appointed to the Academy during' the
last three months of 1967.
This year, as of September, 565 re
cruit patrolmen had been graduated.
Of these, 225 had been taken from the
list during 1967; 340 were called in
1966 but graduated in 1967.
Detective Named
Viet Civilian Advisor
Agency for International Develop
ment, Public Safety Advisor. Duty
Station-Viet Nam .
Th at's the latest
entry in Det. Robert
Utter's P.ersonnel
jacket. There won't
be another entry for
30 months, because,
if pl ans hold, the De
tective will be working for two and one
half years in Viet N am-as a civilian,
not a soldier.
Utter's new assignment began when
his brother Tom was killed in Viet
Nam. The Detective wrote President
Johnson thanking him for the letter
of condolence. The Pre;ident , aware
of his Marine Corps stint in Korea and
his eight-year record with the Chicago
Police, offered him a job with the State
Department. Utter accepted.
Job training in Washington ended
Oct. 10th. Utter headed for Viet Nam
a week later.
Once there, his basic job will be to
help the Vietnamese with perimeter
security problems around their villages.
Utter, 33, and a St. Phillips High
School grad, has earned one commenda
tion and two honorable mentions. He
and his wife Helen live on the South
side; they have two children: Debbie,
five, and Robert, Jr., two.
Before going on leave, the Detective
worked in Area # I-Robbery. Up
until three months ago, he had not once
changed partners, David Olsen, Vice
Division, Gambling, worked with him
ever since the two came on the job
together in March 1959 . They worked
together in Englewood, in the Task
Force and finally in Area # 1.
CORRECTION: Excuse us! Re
ferring to page 18 , October Star
"New Laws Passed in Springfield."
A driver is considered drunk if
alcohol in his blood measures .010
per cent, not .10. Per cent re
quired before was .015, not .15.
Thank you, Ptlmn. Dick Potesta.
Recruit Trai ning Gets State Boost CPD and Loop College
Construct Degree Program
EEPING PACE with the grow
ing complexities of police work
is no simple matter. Officers must be
better qualified, must know more about
more things than ever before. Police
Departments, in cooperation with uni
versities and colleges, are beginning to
fill this need.
This month , a specially-designed law
enforcement program became available
through the Public Service Institute of
the Loop College. It was designed in
cooperation with the Chicago Police
Department, the Chicago Civil Service
Commission , and the University of
lllinois .
The program is designed to meet
widely divergent needs of both pre
service and in-service training, sup
plementing the work of the Training
Division. Persons already working in
the law enforcement field may take
courses toward a two-year degree or
seled courses for their own benefit.
High school graduates interested in
law enforcement, after completing their
degree, have the choice of :
-Possibly joining the Chicago Police
Department through regular Civil Serv
ice procedures, or joining a police
force in another jurisdiction;
-Transferring to a college offering
Bachelor's degrees in law enforcement,
such as the Administration of Criminal
Justice Program at the University of
Illinois, or which presents programs
related to law enforcement such as the
Public Administration Program at the
Illinois Institute of Technology.
The Loop College Course consists
of some basic courses in English , So
cial Science and Humanities, as well
as specialized courses in law enforce
ment and public administration , police
organization and management.
These are not " how-to-do-it " courses,
but are historical, theoretical and philo
sophical-the whys behinds the hows.
Dr. David Heller, Loop College ,
speaking on the importance of such
a program. said that never before in
history has the law enforcement field
faced such serious problems.
K
"The program is a two-way street of
cooperation and communication. We're
depending on you [the Police Depart
ment] to keep us tied to reality."
If you want further information.
write to Law Enforcement Program ,
The Loop College, 64 E. Lake St. ,
Room 1402, Chicago, Illinois 60601.
or stop in to the Personnel Division.
3rd floor, Headquarters.
Congress Proposes Federal Comp For Local Police WE RECEIVED A LETTER recent
ly from U.S. Congressman Roman
Pucinski (11 th District, Illinois) . The
letter alerted us to something worth
noting.
The House Judiciary Committee has
reported a measure which would pro
vide a compensation equal to 66%
per cent of a policeman's monthly pay
if he is disabled while apprehending
persons committing Federal crimes. The
payment would continue during the
period of disability. The proposed legis
lation would also provide a police
man's widow with 45 per cent of his
monthly income and an additional 15
per cent for each child, the total not
to exceed 75 per cent. These are the
same benefits provided by the Federal
Employees Compensation Act. The
amounts paid would be reduced by
that paid by the state or local govern
ment. The bill is limited to only law
enforcement officers. It excludes fire-
More than $3 million in state funds
is now available to Chicago and other
Illinois communities for the training of
police officers.
First came H ..B. 2156, signed by
Governor Kerner on July 12th. This
appropriated $860,880 for the con
tinued training of recruits outlined by
the Illinois Police Training Act.
Three weeks later, S.B. 293 was
signed, bringing with it $2,194,000 for
the 1967-68 biennium to train perma
nent police officers in advanced , spe
cialized and in-service areas. Human
relation courses have been added to
the curriculum of all schools .
Any local government which wants
to qualify for funds must first pass an
enabling resolution. As of August, 172
municipalities, or 70 per cent of the
state total , have passed sllch resolu
tions, including Chicago.
Under the Senate bill, participating
governments can be reimbursed for
one-half the cost of training permanent
officers, or $500 per man, whichever is
less . No more than 50 per cent of any
appropriation can be spent in any city
with 500.000 or more population.
men, who will be considered separately.
At the hearing April 5th, Assistant
Attorney General Fred M . Vinson
stated :
Neat jurisdictional lines are
not observed in the task of law en
forcement. Frequently, for example.
the apprehension of a Federal criminal
offender is the result of cooperation
between local and Federal law enforce
ment officials."
About death benefits, Vinson said :
". . . Compensation to the non
Federal officer's survivors would serve
as an official ac:knowledgement of the
debt the Federal government owes ..."
At the same time the House bill is
being considered, the Senate Judiciary
Committee has reported a bill which
would pay up to $25,000 to law en
forcement officials disabled or killed
while apprehending, or attempting to
apprehend, persons suspected of com
mitting a Federal crime. A disabled
policeman would receive $250 a month
for the period of disability, not to
exceed 99 months. A similar payment
would be made to his widow .
The Star will report on the progress
of the measures when final action is
taken.
OCTOBER,
1967
15
words, they'll want to be,
Officer Friendly or Inbe other
like, policemen. And the officers
have three chances to make the
Goes City-Wide will
impression lasting and good.
Plan
With 20 Officers There are 3-Visit
27 school Districts in
MISS BARBARA JOHNSON
explained: "A roomful of 40
six-year-olds can be pretty
frightening if you don't know what to
do with them. "
Miss Johnson is Assistant Director
of Curriculum for the Chicago Board
of Education. She was talking to 20
policemen who are now in the midst of
deciding what to do with 300,000
school age youngsters-all third graders
and below.
The 20 officers are the Department's
new Officer Friendlys. Before their
first day of school September 18th, all
20 had had two full days of training
at Headquarters. Picked from 116 ap
plicants, the Officer Friendlys are all
young-. some under thirty -and are all
neat, articulate, and most important,
interested in children.
"We want the children to see the
policeman as someone to emulate,
someone to respect," Miss Johnson told
the officers. "If we catch them at 5, 6,
7 ~r 8 years old, we can nip disrespect
in the bud. By the time they reach
secondary level, they'll think of law
enforcement as a good profession to
have."
A
Chicago and 773 elementary schools
Public, Catholic and Lutheran. This
year, each Officer Friendly will have
an average of 25 schools to visit in his
assigned Police District. He will visit
each school three times during the
next six months, talking to every class
of kindergarteners, first, second and
third graders.
The first visit is short-maYbe ten
minutes or less. Officer Friendly intro
duces himself to the youngsters and
gives the teacher the prepared guide he
or she should use during the weeks
that follow. The teaching guide has
recently been revised by the Board of
Education and serves to outline the
best way for the youngsters to learn
about the police and to work toward
Officer Friendly's second visit.
As Miss Johnson said: "We want
the kids primed for you when you
return."
The return visit means bringing along
plenty of visual material to interest the
youngsters. Flash cards, posters, colored
traffic lights, traffic ponchos and hand
cuffs all come in handy. The children
are taught safety, good citizenship,
traffic-directing and anything else there
is time for.
A Big Windup
The finale in the spring is usually
the most exciting for the youngsters
and for the teachers. Officer Friendly
lets the class sit in the squad car, op
erates the siren and blue light, and
hands out Junior Citizen certificates.
This three-phase program is a far
cry from the first Officer Friendly back
in March 1966. Ptlmn. Tom Loftus,
the original Officer Friendly, began
making visits in 10 northside schools
in one school District. Loftus reached
about 10,000 youngsters that year. In
1966-67, six officers visited 20 -per cent
of the elementary schools and reached
58,000 youngsters. And this summer,
four officers worked in 60 special sum
mer schools and talked to 20,000
youngsters.
Now the program has gone city-wide,
thanks to a $] 0,000 check from the
Sears Roebuck Foundation. The Foun
dation, the Board of Education and the
Chicago Police Department have co
operated on the program from the
beginning.
"I've done so much talking about
Officer Friendly that I can explain the
program blindfolded," laughed Miss
Johnson.
And well she might. She's already
convinced several cities throughout the
country that Chicago's Officer Friendly
Program is well worth trying.
*
The twenty Officer Friendlys
and their assignments are:
From the "O//icer Friendly Coloring Book"
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
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Maurice Sykes John Jordan Roland Myers John Wrights Pleas Ransom Clarence Madison
John Healy
Gerald Sheehan
Jimmie Pittman
J. G. Smith
Wayne Wiberg
Kenneth Cullon
John Iwanski
William Kouvelis
George Salituro
Robert Shanahan
Eugene McClaughry
John Manley
Thomas Loftus
Donald Williams
Dr. Kelleher
OUT 25 PERSONS each day
are brought to the attention of
the Psychiatric Institute after
arrest. That's about 6,000 persons a
year.
. The Institute, with offices on the 10th
floor of Headquarters and at the House
of Correction, is part of the court
system.
"We're here for
the same reason the
courts are here," said
Dr. Robert Reifman,
one of two full-time
psychiatrists on the
Dr. R ei/man
staff. The other is the
Institute's director, Dr. Edward Kel
leher.
"More than 95 % of the people we
see have been arrested," said Dr. Reif
man. "The biggest source of our re
ferralS are Women's Court, Domestic
Relations Court and Boys' Court."
A
How theCourt Helps the MentallyIII Reasons For Referral
The most common charges for ar
rest which lead to a referral to the
Psychiatric Institute are disorderly
conduct, safekeeping, loitering, inde
cent exposure and attempted assault.
When is an arrested person referred
to the Institute? The areas are broadly
defined: W hen the person is unable to
care for himself, when he is in danger,
when he presents a danger to others
or to himself, when he is a public
nuisance, or when he is felt to be emo
tionally disturbed in general.
"A man walking down the street
talking to himself generally isn't a
public nuisance," explained Dr. Reif
man. "But if he walks out into the
intersection of State and Madison and
starts talking to the cars, he is ."
Sometimes the police officer is the
complainant. Depending on the circum
stances, he mayor may not realize at
the time of the arrest that the person
is mentally ill. Sometimes it isn't until
later that he realizes that what looked
like disorderly conduct was really men
tal disorder. Referrals can and are
made by police officers, lock-up keepers
or matrons, the state's attorney, the
public defender, the judge, or the
person's family.
The complainant might also be a rel
ative, perhaps a neighbor or even a
witness who sees someone wandering,
obviously disoriented, and likely to be
harmed .
The person taken into custody is
brought before a judge. The complain
ant or others involved in the case may
give an opinion that the person is men
tally disturbed. The judge then refers
him to the Psychiatric Institute for ex
amination. At this point, the Police
Department no longer has jurisdiction
over the patient.
Several members of the staff examine
the person and talk to the family or
complainant, if possible, to determine
what would be most beneficial and
practical-out patient care, referral to
Alcoholics Anonymous or to the Chi
cago Alcoholic Treatment Center, re
ferral to a private physician, a marriage
counsellor or to a state hospital or
clinic. This is the second area in which
the Police Department cooperates with
the Psychiatric Institute : The Depart
ment provides transportation to state
hospitals in about 25 per cent of the
cases.
Cooperation with Medical
A third area of cooperation is
through the Department's Medical sec
tion. The Institute diagnoses any De
partment member referred by Chief
Surgeon Dr. James Carroll. This refer
ral originates with the member's com
manding officer who realizes the person
needs help.
The Institute also conSUlts, on an
informal basis, with the Police Depart
ment administration about psychiatric
problems. For example, does a particu
lar individual have the psychiatric ca
pability to commit a certain crime? Is
a particular witness likely to be reliable?
The Psychiatric Institute has an au
thorized strength of 51-although it's
a little short-handed right now. In addi
tion to the two full-time psychiatrists,
there are 10 part-time psychiatrists, 1 I
psychologists, 10 social workers, an
electro-encephalogram technician (the
Institute has one machine) , and a
clerical staff.
*
DEPARTMENT COMMENDATIONS Patrolmen Nicholas Smajo, *8221, and
James Wise, *5780, Traffic - Warrant
unit, were assigned as the Special In
vestigating unit for the City Clerk's Office.
Their job was to investigate trucking com
panies who failed to buy Motor Vehicle
License ta gs. During six months, Smajo
and Wise investigated 185 companies re
su lti ng in 100 arrests. The officers also
worked on 50 joint actions with the Secre
tary of State's Police to uncover licensing
violations. Their efforts resulted in in
creased revenue for the City and greater
adherence to truck licensing provisions.
PtImn. Michael Jones,
*12272, 5th District,
was off-duty and driv
ing near his home .
Jones spotted a man
whose picture had been
in the Daily Bulletin.
The man was wanted for armed robbery.
The officer followed the man for several
blocks and then hailed a patrolling beat
car. Then Jones and the other officers
curbed the suspect's car and arrested him.
The man was taken to the 9th District
where Are a # 3 Robbery detectives began
the followup investigation. The arrest re
sulted in a robbery clear up.
PtImn. Howard Mahoney, *5229, 3rd
District, went in on a call of policeman
shot at Cott age Grove and Marquette. At
the scene, two officers had been shot, so
Mahoney radioed for help. PtImn. Johnny
Coleman, *5286, 3rd District, arrived and
he and M ahoney began chasing a man
who was running north on Maryland. The
man ran into a building and barricaded
himself in a third floor washroom. Ma
honey and Coleman were joined by Dets.
Raymond Hederman, *7903, and Clar
ence Domanski, *3025, DDA #2-Rob
bery. After an exchange of gunfire, the
man threw his gun in the hallway and
came out. He identified his accomplice
and the man was later arrested at the
scene of the shooting. The first man ar
rested was positively identified by a wit
ness. Both were ch arged with the murder
of Pltmn. Herm an Stallworth and the at
tempted murder of Ptlmn. Eugene Ervin.
18
CHICAGO POLICE STAR
Sgt. Harry A. Blackburn, *969, Vice
Control Division, has been awarded a
commendation for the work he has done
for the annual Police Recognition cere
monies conducted by the Public Informa
tion Division. Blackburn has been Co
ordin ator for four shows in the last six
yea rs. He volunteered for the responsi
bility in each case, and worked off-dut y
hours for three months in planning the
shows in addition to workin g a t his regu
lar assi gnment. ' The Sergeant arranged
for the theatre, lined up entert ainment ,
recruited Department and citizen cast
members and obtained stage equ ipment
and technical assistance. The show this
ye a r, seen by 3500, involved 125 people
a nd three vehicles on stage. Working
closely with the producers and directors.
the Sergeant di rected a pre-show rehear
sal. and then , for three hours, m ade sure
th at all J 25 were where they should have
been when they should have been .
On May 21st, Patrol
men John H. Johnson,
*6897, and Artis C.
Jenkins, *4222, 2nd
District, were assigned
to watch a meeting in
Washington P a r k 0 f
Ptlmn. Jenkins
Black Muslims, Black
N ationalists and other groups. Approxi
mately 250 gathered, and during the meet
ing, began to assault two women who were
not wanted. Johnson called for help and
then took a position with Jenkins and
three other officers. The five officers identi
fied themselves and then held off the
crowd with guns drawn. Other police
men arrived, but a riot broke out. Several
policemen were injured, police vehicles
were damaged and 46 persons arrested.
Patrolmen James KnightIey, *12091,
and Patrick O'Brien, *4076, 3rd District,
were patrolling when they heard a robbery
in progress call for the Jewel supermarket.
The broadcast described the robber and
gave the direction in which he ran.
Kni ghtley and O'Brien canvassed the area
and spotted a suspect in a vestibule. The
man fired twice as-the officers approached.
Knightley was shot. O'Brien fired three
times and also was shot. Then PtImn.
Alfred Schultz, * 4496, 3rd District, ar
rived and joined in the gun battle. The
robber was fatally wounded; the proceeds
of the robbery were recovered .
On July 12th, PtImn.
Anthony Marcantonio,
*5929, Traffic Area
#4, was eating lunch
in a restaurant near the
Criminal Courts build
ing. Suddenly he heard
outside. He was told a
man running west on Cermak had just
shot a policeman. Marcantonio began
chasing him. The m an fired at the officer
but was wounded and disarmed. The man,
moments before, had fired a shot at a
Criminal Courts judge and then run from
the building and shot a 10th District
officer.
Nomatter how
well yo ufeel
there are two things
you should do
about cancer: Have a health
checkup every year. Learn
Cancer's Seven Danger Signals: 1. Unusual bleeding or discharge. 2. A lump or thickening in the breast
or elsewhere.
3. Asore that does not heal.
4. Change in bowel or hladder
habits. 5. Hoarseness or
cough. 6. Indigestion or difficulty
in swallowing. 7. Change in!
a wart or mole.
If your signal lasts longer
than two weeks, see
your doctor without delay. ®
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
CANCER IN CHILDREN
More school children die of
cancer than of any other di
sease. Cancer took the lives
of about 5,000 youngsters un
der the age of 15 in 1966. Al
most half of them died of leu
kemia, cancer of the blood
forming tissue. A contribution
to the American Cancer So
ciety will help support re
search in leukemia and other
childhood cancers.
Want A d s - - -
CAR FOR SALE: '66 Chrysler, 4·door sedan , light
beige . Power steering, brakes. Air cond o Loaded with
many other extras. Very low mileage-16,OOO miles.
Very clean . Forced to sell. Best offer. Call 267-9147 .
POOL TABLE FOR SALE: Slate top. 6'3" X 3'7". Good
cond o $200. Call Elmer Marshall, 13th Disl. or BE
7·4230.
UNIFORM FOR SALE: 1 winter coat & pants . sz. 38.
New pants, summer, sz. 32·32 . 4 long , 4 short sleeve
shirts . Hal. Call 721 -2982 .
UNIFORM FOR SALE : Complete patrolman's uniform,
sz. 38. Call after 6 p.m. 238·9445 .
DOGS FOR SALE: 2 black min . pood les, male and
female . A.K.C. reg. 6 mos. old. Had shots . $75 each.
call evenings, 778-8271.
GUN FOR SALE: Smith & Wesson , police special , 4"
barrel. 38 ·cal. Best offer. ES 8·6052 . (Must comply
with Depl. G.O. 62·32.)
PUPPIES FOR SALE: Great Dane. 5 mos . old , black
males . Call evenings after 6 p.m . 735-69 16.
HOUSE FOR SALE: Jeffory Manor. 5 rm. Georgian , tile
bath , side drive . Carpeting, stove. refrigerator. $500
down. Call 221 - 1778 .
CAR FOR SALE: ' 63 T-bird . Full power, factory air
'and. $1195. Call after 7 p.m. 925 ·0276.
UNIFORM FOR SALE: X·ing guard uniform and over
coat, SZ. 20. 2 blouses-l long, 1 short sleeve. 1 yr.
old. Call 927 ·0167 .
WANTED TO BUY : 9 mm . Lueger pistol. Call FI 6·
5500, exl. 775 . Ask for AI. (Must comply with Dept .
G.O. 62 ·32 .)
UNIFORM FOR SALE: New reefer, sz. 38R, $50 .
Leather jacket , sz. 38R, $25 . Blouse, sz. 38R, like
new, $30. Call Off . Davidson , 4th Disl. or 493·6004 ,
DO 3·0150 after 6 p.m .
TIRES FOR SALE: '2 VW sedan sn ow tires . U.S. Royal ,
wh itewall. Only 1,000 miles of use . Call Bonnie
Forkosh , Public Information.
DO YOU KNOW ... What constitutes an "infamous" crime? An infamous crime is arson, bigamy,
bribery, burglary, deviate sexual as
sault, forgery , incest or aggravated in
cest , indecent liberties with a child,
kidnapping or aggravated kidnapping,
murder, perjury, rape, robbery, sale of
narcotic drugs, subordination of per
jury, and theft if the punishment is
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
What does conviction of an "in
famous" crime mean?
A person convicted of an infa~ous
crime can not hold an office of honor,
trust or profit, cannot vote in an elec
tion, cannot be a juror. These rights
can be restored by a pardon from the
Governor.
AUGUST RETIREMENTS
Years of
Name
Unit
Service
PUffin. William J. Clancy ., ... Detective Division Area #5 ... ..... 24
Ptlmn. Michael Connolly .... . 1st District ........... _...... ... . 26
Sgt. Gerald P. Connors ...... _20th District ...... _.............. 28
Ptlmn. Edmund R. Donovan . . . Administrative, Patrol Division .... _.24
Sgt. Joseph R. Gill ........... LOA, Personnel Division .......... 21
Ptlmn. Harold C. Hansen ..... Loop Intersection Control ... .... . .. 37
Ptlmn. Harry 1. Iwicki . . ..... Loop Intersection Control ......... . 25
Ptlmn. Edward Kasperski .... _Automotive Maintenance Division ... 29
Ptlmn. Stanley Kozel . . _ .... . . Central Detention Section . ....... .. 27
Ptlmn. John R. Molnar ... .. .. Communication Center ... , ..... .. . 25
Ptlmn. Frank A. Monahan .... Automotive Maintenance Division . _ .32
Ptlmn. Frank J.Novak Jr. _... Detective Division Area #4 .... . . .. 25
Ptlmn. William F. Reilly ...... Automotive Maintenance Division .. . 38
Ptlmn. Fred Sternstein ........ 11th District . . ...... . . . _.... _.. .. 29
Ptlmn. Charles Swaine . _.. .... 10th District .. .. ...... ... ........ 26
ptlmn , John D. Sweeney ...... 18th District ....... . _ . _ . _ ........ 23
Ptlmn. Otto A. Speiser ....... 8th District ....... .... .... . .. __ .. 22
AUGUST MEMORIAL ROLL
Years of Date of
Name
Unit
Service
Death
Prlmn. James L. Flanagan .. _ . Traffic Division Area #5_ .13 .... .. . 8 Aug.
FACTS ABOUT COOK COUNTY • Created January 15, 1831
• Named after Daniel P. Cook, Mem
ber of Congress and first Illinois At
torney General
• Population-5,300,000
• Area-956 square miles
Chicago-227 square miles
126 suburban cities and villages
425 square miles
Unincorporated areas- 304 square
miles (Unincorporated 1960-
383 square miles)
• Audy Home- ll,136 delinquent,
truant and mentally deficient children
were received. An averag~ of half of
those received were released after 48
hours or less. Five per cent of total
day's care for all children at the Home
was spent on the mentally deficient.
1966
• Herrick House-Opened in 1964
as temporary shelter for dependant
and neglected children. Located on 12
acre area west of Bartlett. In 1966,
cared for daily average of 50 children
from 4-14 years old. Children stayed
at Herrick average of 89 days.
• Cook County Hospital-22 build
ings on 18 acres, 2,747 beds available.
83,802 persons admitted to the General
Hospital, 363,913 were given emer
gency first-aid , 273,224 were treated at
Fantus Outpatient Clinic.
• Forest Preserve District-55 ,671
acres. Has already received $5 million
in Federal grants for land acquisition .
District operates three swimming pools,
six golf courses, five toboggan slides,
three nature centers.
o·
THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
"Do you suppose we should curtail his library privileges?"
OCTOBER,
1967
19
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Chicago, Illinois 60605
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In addition to the Superintendent's
Trophy, the boys from 4th DisL will
be wearing new blue jackets. The 9th
and 18th Districts get team and indi
vid ual trophies.
In the consolation bracket, Gold
Cups and individual trophies woot to
Area #4,with a Gold Cup to Area #1.
Again, congratulations to Command
er Ed Sheehy a nd his champions.
Intra-Dept. Golf
Softball-4th Dist. Wins Title " If you think the fans had it tough trying to keep the Cubs and Sox in first, you should have been following
our Intra-Dept. Softball League. Sea
son 's play wound up with eight teams
gOing for jackets, trophies and plaques.
1n quarter-final eliminations, the 14th
DisL bowed to Area #2, the 6th DisL
yielded to the 18th, and the 4th Dist.
won over the 2nd. The 9th was given
a bye.
In semi-final play, the 4th Dist. put
together one of the most devastating
attacks of the year to eliminate last
year's champs (18) from a repeat of
their previous championships. Led by
their team captain, Jack Johnson, they
put together 43 hits (12 of them for
extra bases including 6 home runs) to
account for a 33 to 11 victory over
East Chicago. (This game might also
have broken a record for time.)
In the other half of the semi-finals,
the 9th DisL scored an easy victory
over Area #2, thus paving the way for
the championship series which was
won by two straight games by the 4th
Dist., 7-6 and 10-2. This was the sec
ond time the 9th DisL went for the
pot-o-gold only to have it slip through
their fingers.
Here's a look-see into the upcoming
matches that will win beautiful revere
bowls for eight of ten golfers in our
summer long tournament.
Championship Bracket
John LaMOnica, 11 th District., vs
Paul Quinn, SupL Office.
A Bracket
Vic Fr~mkswicz, 8th Dist., vs J. Biebel,
20th Dist.
B Bracket
Ted Pytel is waiting to play the winner
of the match between Capt. F . Hart
man, 10th DisL , vs Sgt. H. Thomas,
Youth Div.-Area #4.
C Bracket
Jim O'Brien, 3rd DisL, is also waiting
to take on the winner from the match
between Bob Gerich, Detective Div.
#4, G.A., vs John Anderson, 10th Dist.
Winners and runners-up in each bracket
wilJ receive awards.
Basketball
Season starts Sunday, 12 November,
at Foster Park, 8400 S. Loomis. Plan
to come out and see the action.
WILL YOUR DOOR BE OPEN WHEN OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS? So often people aren't ready for op
portunity. Are you? You aren't if you
1.) TOOK ADDITIONAL
SCHOOLING
2.) OBTAINED A COLLEGE
DEGREE
3.) DEVELOPED A NEW SKILL
4.) LEARNED A NEW
LANGUAGE
5.) IMPROVED ON A SKILL OR
LANGUAGE
and didn't tell the Department about it.
To be sure you are given considera
tion for the many opportunities that
will be avail able in the Department in
the future, keep your records up to
date by notifying the Special Projects
and Research Section of the Personnel
Division.
BOOK REVIEW
Highway Collision Analysis, by
James C. Collins, Charles Thomas,
1967.
This is an excellent book.
Police accident investigators can use
it to develop a better understanding
and application of the concepts of ac
cident reconstruction. The book will
aid police to further develop skills in
the use of physical evidence.
The book is especialiy timely, since
the Police Department is in the proc
ess of upgrading accident investigators
in using rel ationships between skid
marks, stopping distances and speed.
The chapter on skidding and stopping
is particularly useful.
The authors are commended on the
comprehensive and simplified explana
tion of mathematics.
-PUmn. John O'Connell
Safety Education Section
Traffic Division

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