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...focus of both Wyatt's pride and Letteri's ire is the internal reorganization of the Harvard force begun in 1975 by David L. Gorski, former chief of University police. Gorski, a "scientific cop" with a tough-guy image, came to Harvard in late 1974 intending to remake the University force in his own image. Drawing on his municipal experience, Gorski instituted a computer system to analyze crime statistics, a specialized crime-prevention unit, and a special task force assigned to high-crime areas. The new system, however, disrupted the traditional union method of assigning shifts according to seniority, rather...
...settlements in the West Bank (TIME, Sept. 12) and Dayan's patent denials to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis that there is any change in Israeli policy. Said one Washington official in exasperation: "There is at least the appearance of duplicity here-with Sharon playing the bad cop and Dayan the good cop. There's an undercurrent of feeling around here that the Israelis are jerking us around...
...cases--he spends most of the film reading from transcripts and explaining how his words were twisted in court, and what he really said. One of the funniest bits in the monologue is Bruce's imitation of a vice officer imitating Bruce's act for a grand jury. The cop's reaction is typical; all he can remember are dirty words...
...does local District Attorney Carol Vance. Twenty-four times in the past four years, he has developed cases involving murder or attempted murder by policemen on duty, but the county grand jury has returned only one indictment-against an off-duty cop who shot a motorist after an accident. Says Vance: "Citizens here are generally behind the police." He believes "the feds" might eventually have to take on the task of prosecuting lawless Houston cops-iust as in Philadelphia...
CHiPS (premiere: Sept. 15, 8 p.m. E.D.T. on NBC). Since this series about the California highway patrol is the only new cop show of the season, prime time will soon have to live without a new cop show. Up against The Waltons and the Osmonds, CHiPS may not last out the month. Erik Estrada stars as a motorcycle cop named Poncherello ("Ponch" to friends) who bears an all too obvious resemblance to both Baretta and the Fonz. For an hour, he and his partner (Larry Wilcox) ride the Los Angeles freeways arresting or aiding motorists. Occasionally they take a break...