A TRIBUTE TO THE POLICE

To the Editors of the Crimson:

In these days and times when law-enforcement agencies (especially the police) in the U.S. are being disparaged by people whose interests and activities are best served by lawlessness and anarchy, I would like to pay this modest tribute to the police.

I am a foreign student at Harvard (GSAS). On Saturday, May 13, 1972, about 7:30 p.m., I was attacked on Kirkland St. by three young hoodlums who roughed me up and robbed me of my expensive camera and photo equipment. My cries for help moved only two young gentlemen, who started chasing the robbers; but, in view of the situation, I almost despaired of seeing the runaways caught. Fortunately, somebody alerted the Harvard Police, who arrested the robbers in a lightning action supported by the City of Cambridge Police. Hardly did fifteen minutes elapse between the robbery in front of William James Hall and the arrest of the third accomplice around Harvard Square.

Although my camera and photo equipment have not been found yet. I would like to record publicy my thanks and appreciation for the alertness, prompt action, and the subsequent sympathetic help of the Harvard Police (especially the arresting officers, Mr. Francis Wigfall and Mr. Leon Brathwaite) and their colleagues at Cambridge Police headquarters. Hooshang Aslam