‘No One Rested’

It’s hard to recall a more dramatic case of the danger of paroling the murderers of police officers than the astonishing arrests yesterday. Seized in prison were two killers — Herman Bell and Anthony Bottom — who’ve been in prison for 35 years for the 1971 murders of New York Police Department Officers Joseph Piagentini, 28, and Waverly Jones, 33. It was on a Harlem street that Bell and Bottom ambushed the two officers as they responded to a call for help. Bell and Bottom shot Piagentini four times in the back of the head, and Jones 12 times as he begged for mercy. Their pleas for parole have become a cause celebre on the political left here, but so far to little avail.