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Then why are so many police so embittered? The answers start simply enough with money and security. After a few years of pushing up salaries to an average of nearly $13,000 annually for city cops, police negotiators now find municipal treasuries empty. Traditional civil service security has faded after mass layoffs in both Detroit and New York City. The resulting militancy of police unions-or benevolent associations as they are often euphemistically called-has led not merely to demonstrations, "blue flu" job actions and the threat of illegal strikes, but to fights over departmental policies. "Police union leaders have...
Anticorruption campaigns within departments are so extensive that one P.B.A. has taken to posting pictures and license plates of "shooflies," as internal investigative officers are called. There are also administrative reviews of many of the important decisions a cop makes while on duty. As a result, says Orlando (Fla.) Police Officer William Andrew Hutchinson, "some cops don't do a damn thing because as soon as they do something they're going to get themselves written up." It's "civil service with a vengeance," complains Joseph Wambaugh, the bestselling author who quit the L.A. force two years...
...also little pockets of drama in the stands: Will Car Salesman David Janssen stop treating Mistress Gena Rowlands mean and marry her? Will Gambler Jack Klugman, way in the hole and threatened with immediate extinction unless his debts are settled, beat the point spread? Most of all, will Good Cop Charlton Heston and Stadium Manager Martin Balsam be able to neutralize the sniper without having to turn to the dire methods of Tough Cop John Cassavetes and his blood-hungry SWAT team...
...bring charges against their attackers. The police make special arrangements to eliminate the tedium and confusion of court appearances. Detectives also lecture groups of old people on how to survive in the city (e.g., don't go home if you think you're being followed-find a cop). In addition, the police have created a few "safe corridors" for the elderly: thoroughfares in shopping districts that are heavily patrolled. Civic-minded youths, mostly high school students, have helped further by volunteering to escort old people to stores and social clubs...
...hearts and minds of television critics and the other amateur moral philosophers who keep outraged eyes on the tube. Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, its vulgarly nostalgic sitcoms, so far this season rank first and second among regularly scheduled programs, while Baretta, the ethnic undercover cop, and The Bionic Woman are right up there near Charlie's Angels among the leading action-adventure shows...