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...entire profession. But there is a fatal flaw that prevents the movie from capturing the meaning of Ciello's "turning." The character even says it himself early in the story, when confronted by two ambitious prosecutors who want to use Ciello to further their careers. "No one understands cops," Ciello screams. "No one understands us except our partners." And, alas, he is right. For all that Prince of the City pretends to unveil the world of the cop, each viewer can leave the film with his preconceptions about cops--whatever they are--entirely unaffected. In short, we don't know...
...words spoken in the attorneys' graceful, paneled office come in a predictable stream of self-serving homilies. But the words are not the important part. It is the tone that matters: these people are in charge, they always will be, and they will care for their own kind. Cops, too, try to shelter their own, but their authority on the street is nothing in the courtroom. For a while, Danny Ciello does indeed seem to be the prince of the city, but in the end everyone realizes that the true monarchs would never yield their power to a cop...
...their trade in addition to the Brattle Square Island. Kalomymus, a bearded young man who presents his own version of the flaming batons routine, says another reason he and his cohorts have had more success recently is that the Cambridge police have refrained from breaking up larger audiences. "One cop did tell me the other night that he'd stick the torches up my ass, but I don't think he was serious, and most of them have been pretty friendly," he says...
...Angeles cop embarks on a dark soliloquy: "If I don't have a piece [a gun], I feel naked. That's why I became a cop, I think, because I got to carry a piece. In Nam, killing was a job, you look at somebody like a piece of hamburger. I just feel like telling someone who's bothering me, 'You know, I could blow your ass away.' I walk away ... What the hell am I doing here? I don't think we lost. Am I weak? What did I do wrong? I did my job ... The concrete we laid...
...hours," he says, adding that the police grow unhappy if the same vendor appears at the same locale too regularly. A technical infraction of one of the city's many complex regulations can always be invoked, and a bust may follow: "If you're unlicensed, the motorcycle cop holds you till the truck comes. Then they take your stuff and hold it all day long at the precinct, until business hours are over. On top of going to court and paying the fines, you get charged $65 for gas and fees for the truck...