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Lineups in Blue The scene was unprecedented. Seventy policemen in uniform, all of them white, their faces hard-set, lined up as suspects while four blacks passed from one to the next trying to make identifications. The tension was tangible. "You stink," hissed one cop as one of the Negroes, a woman, peered closely at him. The scene in Buffalo was repeated four times during the past two weeks till 278 cops had appeared before the black quartet. They were the first all-police lineups in memory...
Klute is a sharp, slick thriller about murder, perversion, paranoia, prostitution and a lot of other wonderful things about life in New York City. The eponymous hero (Donald Sutherland) is a small-town Pennsylvania cop come to the big town to trace the disappearance of his best friend, a home-loving executive with a kinky double life. Klute concentrates on his single strong lead, a high-class hooker named Bree (Jane Fonda), who may have spent a night with the missing man two years...
...bags are sold to owners of shooting galleries, of which some 2,000 are thought to exist. Along Mack Avenue there are 25 to 30 in one block. Drugs bought in galleries must be used on the premises so that the seller knows the buyer is not an undercover cop...
...have "helpless" victims (women, children, old people), or at least valorous ones (police, prisoners of war). Unsafe assembly lines, malconstructed bleachers, badly-made cars can claim lives every day, though we'll hear little about it; but let some psychopath carve up a few nurses, or someone shoot a cop over in Brighton and we'll never hear the end of it. Journalism consists of the substitution of an event's dramatic elements for the event itself; newspapers and magazines are drama by other means. Let me entertain...
Favenin's bloody vengeance is solidly based on the standard "Rogue Cop" caper-maligned by the Department, the lonely and disgraced lawman corrects what the courts cannot. The old films implicitly applauded such vigilante tactics, but The Cop is far more ambiguous in its moral stance. It does not discount the failings of a system that allows criminals to prance defiantly through their civil rites. But it also indicts the kind of police who have created an environment about which Raymond Chandler once commented: "When you pass in beyond the lights of a precinct station you pass...