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...skip town. Dealers regard the forfeited bail as merely a cost of doing business. If a prosecutor's case is airtight, money can sometimes pry it open. "We pay for what we need as we need it," one lawyer bragged to TIME. "If we can't bribe the cop, we try to bribe the prosecutor and, if we can't get the prosecutor, we try to buy the judge...
...loss to Penn would also, needless to say, turn the Crimson's slim Ivy title hopes into downright impossibility. As it is, Yale and Dartmouth each has to lose again, and then Harvard has to win--not tie--The Game in order to cop its first crown since 1975. No matter what Dartmouth or Harvard does this week, if Princeton doesn't beat Yale, The Game will not decide the title...
Majeski is a good cop, entirely dedicated to what he calls "the profession." That night he believed the man who had murdered Adan had to be caught "before he killed anyone else." The detective ran into a bit of luck when someone pointed out two stylish young women who had been sitting with Adan's assailant. From them, he got Abbott's name and description. Back at the station, Majeski delved into Abbott's background, trying to figure out where he would go next. Five hours after he fled the scene of the crime, Abbott brazenly kept...
...dragnet zeroed in on four work camps where transient workers often stayed, Majeski predicted that Louisiana police would find Abbott combing his hair in front of a mirror and that he would give up without a fight. The savvy New York cop was uncannily right on both counts...
Maybe the problem is that the show's creators did not follow Sergeant Esterhaus' advice: they weren't careful out there. Writers-Producers Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, Producer Gregory Hoblit and Director Robert Butler devised a "cop show" with no screaming car chases, no shining superheroes or disposable villains, no instant solutions to a ghetto full of predators and wary prey. Each episode tracks a day in the life of the policemen, the "blues," of an inner-city precinct. And at the end of each show, plot strands and predicaments are left hanging to be tied...