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...born Oct. 10, 1930, in Hackney, London, into what he called "a very respectable, Jewish, lower-middle-class family"; his father Jack was a ladies' tailor. At Hackney Downs School, perceptive teachers nurtured Harold's talent for writing. He was also mad for sports, especially cricket, which would prove a lifelong passion. In his 50s he said that his "three main interests" were family, work and cricket...
...confession. As the credits on the TV cop drama roll, three real-life constables, busy devouring the detective series along with their cheese-and-pickle sandwiches in the station canteen, discuss the denouement. Real policing isn't like that, they say. It's messier - and more dramatic. Their boss, Hackney Borough Commander Steve Dann, agrees. That's why he "can't bear to watch police shows," he says. "They drive...
While terrorism attracts most attention, the Met is also responsible for more routine police work, much of which is handled by 32 borough forces. These include Borough Commander Dann's 700 officers in Hackney, a northeast London area of such economic, cultural and ethnic diversity that it throws up just about all the challenges big-city police are ever likely to face: murders, street and domestic violence, burglaries, drugs, teenage gangs and immigrant populations reliving distant conflicts on Britain's streets. Hackney police are distributed across several stations and, as Dann explains with the help of a complex diagram, into...
...Twenty per cent of [our] last academy class was foreign-born," says the NYPD official. "Scotland Yard is pretty much still lily white. They have a different reputation within the population as a result." In Hackney, where about 20% of the population is black and there are large Asian and Turkish communities, only 11% of officers come from ethnic minorities. That's better than the Met as a whole, where minorities account for just 8.3% of police. But, says Dann, "we have independent advisers who are community representatives: Jewish, Turkish, black, faith, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
...Hackney and the rest of the Met have already paddled quite far upstream by pouring additional resources into community policing. "They call us 'tea drinkers,' " says Police Sergeant Andy Port, on patrol with Police Constable Pete Ward in one of the rougher reaches of Hackney. The nickname refers to the amount of time officers working for the Met's Safer Neighborhood Teams spend chatting with locals over cups...