Daily News front page August 31, 1970, Headline: COPS

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 31: Daily News front page August 31, 1970, Headline: COPS DOUBLE UP ON FOOT PATROL, Leary Acts After Attack In the Bronx, Patrolman Kenneth Cartwright (left) and Andrew Koehler, of 14th Precinct, walk on 35th St., toward their Seventh Ave., beat after Police commissioner Howard Leary's order directing two-man patrols on all posts covered on foot. Leary acted promptly after the Bronx shotgun blasting of a patrolman - the latest of a series of assaults on police - including 21 shootings and 22 stabbings, so far this year. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)