The Bluecoats' Revenge

The police of suburban Yonkers, N.Y. (pop. 152,533) normally hand out an average of 82 traffic tickets a day. But last week, before the election, the cops eased off until the daily total dropped to a soothing average of only 27. There was a reason: the cops were hoping that the townspeople would vote them $500-a-year salary increases. The voters turned them down. On the following day, things were different: Yonkers' policemen issued an all-time record of 458 traffic summonses. The next day they plastered Yonkers' cars with 525. The day after that, despite howls of protest, indignant editorials and black looks from every motorist, they handed out 520. At week's end, heartened perhaps by the news that cops in Bridgeport, Conn, were doing the same thing, they were still "enforcing the laws" with relentless and stony-faced glee.

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