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...well known as the neighborhood gang leaders. The blond mane neatly tied back, slender figure and pink lipstick violate the stereotype of guardian of law and order; but Shea, 32, has managed to win the respect of street thugs who usually answer more readily to the slam of a cop's billy club. She speaks softly, raising her voice only as needed. While her record of arrests during her 10 years on patrol is comparable to those of the men in her division, she has been involved in only two street fights, a small number by any cop's standard...
Because female cops are still relatively few in number, a woman answering a police call often evokes a mixed response. Reno officer Judy Holloday recalls arriving at the scene of a crime and being asked, "Where's the real cop?" Detective Burke, who stands 5 ft. 2 in. and has weighed 100 lbs. for most of her 23 years on the force, says she made 2,000 felony arrests and was never handicapped by a lack of physical strength. Burke recalls subduing a 6-ft. 4- in., 240-lb. robbery suspect who was wildly ranting about Jesus Christ. She pulled...
...policies in almost half of all states. "Men tend to come on with a stronger approach to quiet a recalcitrant male suspect," notes Baltimore County police chief Cornelius Behan, whose 1,580-member force includes 143 women. "It gets his macho up, and he wants to take on the cop...
...most Americans, the plea is a cop-out -- a too easy alibi that could allow monsters like Dahmer to return to the streets. In fact, the insanity defense is seldom used and rarely successful. Experts estimate the defense is raised in fewer than 1% of the 13 million criminal cases filed annually in the U.S. On those rare occasions where it succeeds, the offense is usually nonviolent, and the prosecution and defense agree that the accused is deranged. One example: a homeless person with schizophrenia who is charged with disorderly conduct...
These scenes are from Basic Instinct, a cop-and-copulation thriller starring Michael Douglas as a San Francisco detective on the trail of a serial killer and Sharon Stone as a bisexual novelist, a suspect in the case, with whom he has a convulsive affair...