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Spring of 1973 was a busy season for Renault Robinson, who spoke at a conference on “Community Control of Police” and, not incidentally, walked a beat in the alley behind Chicago’s police headquarters in the South Loop. “This is retaliation,” Robinson told a Tribune reporter about his assignment. “No one had this job before me.” Robinson, who headed the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League, had .
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He helped start an undercover sting that led to the convictions of judges, lawyers and sheriffs. He also worked on other high-profile cases as a defense lawyer.