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...after-day, year-after-year, but it defines your place on this planet as much as anything short of your kids. Yet movies remain fixed on growing-pains farce and lurid fantasy. A distant civilization, judging earthlings from their popular films, would think we are the creatures who cop feels and catch serial killers. They'd never guess we spend something like half our waking hours at work...
These days he looks more like Mick Fleetwood than Al Pacino, but FRANK SERPICO hasn't changed much. Instead of being a nonconformist cop obsessed by police corruption, he's a nonvoting, vegetarian artist obsessed by police corruption. After years of reclusiveness, he's emerging to take on his favorite subject again. The 1973 book he wrote with Peter Maas, Serpico, has been rereleased, and last week before a New York city council committee he urged the establishment of an independent agency to monitor police. "I'm still waiting for the day," he said, "when the honest cop is feared...
...Cop Land...
President Clinton wants the FDA to become a global food cop (TIME Daily...
While society does pay appropriate tribute to police officers who sacrifice their lives, Conlon points out that we are clearly deficient in our attention to the less obvious threats that every cop faces on a daily basis. Police are plagued with a suicide rate well above the national average, and the invisible damage to the psyche of people who must run towards mortal danger on a daily basis, under the restraint of a myriad of rules stacked against them, is immeasurable. These considerations do not excuse those who break under the pressure and resort to illegal cruelty, but they should...