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Professor-ti By JOHN KOZMA ( aniocock Staff Writer Police officers face problems more diffi#?iilI Ihnn lhn<;p pnrnuntproH hv ;inv olhpr segment of the criminal justice system, said I>r. (Jeorge Kirkham, a criminology professor turned policeman. Kirkham, who obtained a doctorate in criminology from University of California at Berkeley, is presently a part-time l?eat policeman in Tallahassee, Fla. and professor at Florida Slate University. He spoke at I he Legal Fr.rum at 'he Law Center \\ ednesday. "If anyone had i< t; c six years ago I'd he a police officer 1 d have told them they wore nuts, kirknam said. When I started off. I u;is no great lo\er of police." HI T AS A IUXjINNIM; instructor in law i ^4 ^ r fli EzJCOkHtll ARMS HWKWCY.^ I ^^?3 phonc 709 150<t * sajmte* * ptNcir?onm. coiumo>a.s.c. OPEN 7 AAA-1 1 PM <: JOVAH $7 00 -^O AAUSK OIL f PERFUME V Chanel No. 5 Perfume Cologne Jusf powder White Shoulders P e rt,j rr e Das' powder Shalimar Perfume To;!e! water English Leather Mon Triomphe British Sterling Canoe Wind Sona I Heaven Sent Vitobath V ; Patene Shampoo \\ mna KiccI Bonnie Bell OPEN 7 AM-1 1 PM | f, I OlMfCBWBl ARMS RWMACVZ/ I *rfJU~""pHONe 760-1306 t 1 sCWTt? * KMouiwitn. coium?w.s.c. y jrned-cop sc enforcement at FSU, Kirkham said, he was in the company of many former police officers in his class. He likened it to "putting electrons next to each other," and as theories were discussed, " he cops in the class always came back to one point-all this is fine and good, but you've never been out in the street." One of these discussions happened over the second or third pitcher of beer one day toward the end of the quarter. "You really don't think one of us bubble headed professors could make it as a police officer," Kirkham retorted, but his student persisted. Finally taken in, he accepted the challenge-"What if one of us could go out on the street and come back unchanged?"' Kirkham said one of his students ap proached his superior with the proposal that Kirkham spend threfctp four months as a uniformed cop in a '^4q?h stress" area. He /'}> $ ipi mill ays police w Kn/4 01 rrtapI fn^rtAf(an aKniit llin u4mln Ihina I let Li (lllliuoi iui gMiivii awui uiv niiv/iv 1111115 when the superior contacted him with his approval. After Florida mandatory police training, polygraph tests, background investigation and other such prerequisites, Kirkham said, he found himself in uniform on the steps of the Jacksonville Police Department. HIS FKIKNDS, he said, "ihought I had taken leave of my senses, but there I was." Kirkham said his experience as a police officer gave him enormous insight into the problems officers face, and that while he has not become a "flaming advocate of 12 (jUUCt'lIlUI ^ I Ig^l llo, lie UIU UtlUlllt' IllUlt* sympathetic to their situation. "One thing that separates the |>olice," Kirkham said, is they face "the worst of human problems as they actually happen." He said he felt smug going in, because he 'II ^ Y%\mt i i 5aMMOr i[}~II ^T\ j. m [\ iTem 11^^ Sweat \ IxVwv for J gm 80 12.00 Don't miss this che v. ^ \ tremendous group Wl^J ffl.n t.RRt.in Rflui ntfa in solids &? stripes. Jnnl( orktough had worked with problems in other situations, but as he encountered situations on me sireei ne oecame worried and anxious. There is, Kirkham said, "a variable few social scientist appreciate the variable of adrenalin". "A police officer's environment is one where there is very little 'ime to makdfr decisions," he said. Forced to make decisions in seconds, Kirkham said, he didn't always act as he would if given more time to think. "This has got to be (he worst society in the world lor being a police officer," Kirkham said. While it is very important to have restraints on police actions for a free society, he said, much of the urge to circumvent these restraints is a result of the ciupuasis piuuuu t>n initiative ar a productivity hy the same society. i /?N lyi/) *> endous ;er Sale runiors % Off 00 tp 36.00 * to 28.80 nice to select from this ) of junior sweaters at | Cardigans &1 du Hovers 1 Hurry for best selectlonl >r World