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lot SlnztU ZimttS Personal basis. 10 Nov. 11,1973 In addition to COMPTON WAR ON CRIME SPIRALING crime in Compton," said Cochee, "but the media doesn't seem'to care when we produce something like this." But Cochee points out that crime is on the downturn in the. city, a continuation of a trend which began about two years ago and now seems to be accelerating. By picking out the worst part of the crime picture in the city, Cochee is hopeful that the crime totals overall will drop off sharply, at least sharply enough to create a new attitude in the city that Compton is in fact a safe place to live.

tons of pot in Boyle Heights and Commerce. Although the Sheriff's Department claimed credit for "breaking" the case, said Cochee, the men in the narcotics detail did most of the leg work. "It got too big for us," he said. "It takes a lot of money to buy four tons of grass, and that's why we had to contact the county for help." The four-ton "bust" caused some ruffled feelings on the part of some men in the department, said Cochee, since the news media gave credit for the arrests and seizure to the Sheriff's Department rather than Compton. "We always hear about control program will help suppress burglary activity.

In narcotics control, the department also has a federally funded unit for investigation. Many members of the unit are undercover agents so skilled in changing their appearance that Cochee said "at first I found myself looking at them out of the corner of my eye, not really sure if they were for us or against us." After several recent triumphs, however, Cochee said, he is now convinced of the unit's worth. One recent case involved a mammoth marijuana arrest which culminated in the seizure of almost four Low Down! Low Interest! Have the best financing available. Studio Units 2 2 bths. Extremely liberal terms.

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(Later by oppl.) 869-3011 embarked on intensive work in two other areas, burglary prevention and narcotics control. The department has a special, federally funded project for burglary control, which involves a beefed-up burglary investigation detail, and a community awareness campaign. Since much of the burglary problem in the city apparently stems from gang members loose on the streets during daylight hours, Cochee is also hopeful that the gang fhYzrri HTf mm 111 5vi mm mmm mmm mm -y-ifr- St 0 CHRISTMAS IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER mm Pendleton R) Gentleman's Jeans NUVO FLARES SPORTSWEAR flt THE GRANT BOYS carry a lull line of fine PENDLETON sportswear for the man who cares enough to wear the finest in 100 pure virgin wool. Cut for the Man who has a little more to offer. Waist Sizes 32 to 42 Colors Navy Brown Continued from First Page Patrol, has promised to move its orange-jacketed members "into the streets" to intimidate those who might break the law something of an ironic turn for a group which was formed after the Watts riot in 1965 to "watchdog" police activity.

Into this caldron of boiling emotion has stepped the city's new police chief, Thomas Wentworth Cochee, a former professor of law enforcement, a former sheriff's deputy, and a one-time investigator for the county public defender. Cochee (pronounced seems to fully realize the magnitude of the task which confronts him how to suppress and further reduce crime, how to involve the community in the police effort and gain community support, and how to improve the once-flagging morale in his own department. Cochee, 41, did not come to Compton "because of the challenge," as many new chiefs might claim, even though he freely admits the job has a lot to challenge anyone. Instead, he said, he came to Compton after serving four years on the faculty of Oakland's Mcrritt College "because I wanted to be a police chief and it was the only job I could get. Most towns are run by white officials, and I just don't think a black man has much chance to get a chief's job in a town run by white men." Cochee has a low-key personality, a factor which may help him when it comes to dealing with the volatile emotions of many of the city's estimated 200 to 400 "hard-core" gang youth, whom Cochee considers at least the initial keystone to any drive on crime in Compton.

At said Cochee, some members of his 145-man department felt they would be getting a "soft" police chief in Cochee. That isn't true, he said. The attitude probably formed when Cochee five years ago taught a police-community relations class taken by some present Compton officers at Compton Community College, he believes. But even though he realizes the value of a so-called "soft approach," said Cochee, "now is not the time." Instead, he said, the city has to show that crime is going to be taken seriously by the department, and there will be no "gentle approach" to law enforcement for the time being. "I like to think of my role," he once said, "as having a steel fist in a velvet glove.

"For some, the velvet is two inches thick, and for others, the velvet won't be so thick." Still, although Cochee has installed a number of innovations to increase the intensity of the police response to crime most importantly, two "night cars" which patrol gang spots exclusively Cochee also expresses an academician's approach to crime as a sociological problem. "What causes crime in Compton?" Cochee poses the question abstractly, as if he were about to begin a college lecture. "The causes are socioeconomic and racial, causes," he said. "Unemployment, underemployment, prejudice and discrimination, and these factors' complicated link to education, housing, income." All of these things tend to create "negative attitudes, or lowered expectations" on the part of some individuals, said Cochee. "A person can look around him, see his inferior education, see supermarkets overcharging for poor quality goods, furniture stores ripping off his friends and neighbors, see houses deteriorate because absentee landlords are rich enough to allow the deterioration for tax purposes.

"If all these things tell a person that he's second class, chances are some people will act second class." The atmosphere can actually help some individuals reach a logical rationalization for anti-social or criminal activity, said Cochee. "There are some young black cats who feel the 'system' owes them something. They feel the system is always ripping them off; it won't give them a decent education, it won't allow them to find a job which lasts, it denies him advantages he can see others have. "So he decides if the 'system' is going to rip him off, it's only fair for him to steal from the system so much each week to balance the scales." Cochee also makes it clear that he feels the main core of the crime problem in Compton is not adult criminal activity, but juvenile crime activity. The vast bulk of juvenile crime activity is not generally thought out, planned, and executed as a criminal occupation, but is more, accurately considered spur-of-the-moment crime, most of it emanating from youth gangs.

In many cases crimes committed by youth gang members have no overriding monetary considerations, but are instead part of a psychological "game" in which courage, "adulthood," and other expressions of individualized behavior occur. For example, a large part of the crime problem in Compton involves gang youths assaulting and robbing other youths, who themselves may be members of other gangs, which in turn leads to retaliation. Frequently it is the "conquest" of opponents that matters, not the loot taken. In describing the gang problem confronting the police in Compton, Cochee notes there are as many as 20 different gangs holding power in various sections of the city. However, there are two major gangs which seem to cause the biggest headaches, the Crips and the Pirus.

"Hardcore members of these gangs are the gun-toters, 'on call' for wars," said Cochee. "These are the kids who don't go to school, but who know other kids who do. "The schools are the recruiting grounds for the gangs," said Cochee. "Earlier this fall, when school started, we had a little trouble between rival gangs competing for new members. Now it's settled down somewhat.

"Centennial High School is the Crips' school, while Compton High School belongs to the Pirus. Dominguez High School, you might say, is up for grabs." Coping with the gang problem is not just a police problem, Cochee said, but a problem which involves just about everybody and every institution in the community. "We need talented, knowledgeable people to deal with this problem," said Cochee. "First of all we've got to produce jobs, we've got to have skilled training, remedial education, tutoring, and organized recreation." These are aspects of the gang control problem which the community has to confront and make available, he said, in an effort to turn as many gang-oriented youths away from destructive routines. On the other side, said Cochee, the Police Department has to make those same destructive routines painful to those who pursue them.

The two approaches will constitute a "carrot and stick" strategy. One of Cochee's innovations in this respect is the use of the night juvenile crime cars. "They work the gangs, trouble-shooting the hot spots. They handle citizen complaints about gang activity, identify gangs and their members, learn their nick-names, their hangouts, their girlfriends, their cars, their parents' names, their addresses, everything about them that enables the officers to deal with the gang members on a one-to-one, 27 and up AM. Men's Body Shirts Turtle Neck Pullover Sweaters Famous Names Like MALER LEVI'S Melius 1 99 Reverse Ribbed Cotton Baggy Shirt.

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