Word: cops
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Others, including local civil rights leaders, maintain the incident was not about race at all. Black police also threw punches. But, says Jill Nelson, editor of an anthology on police brutality, "that is an easy cop-out." Racism almost never works in simple if-then steps. If a black person is involved, race is not then necessarily moot. "Success [in a department] is designed in white male terms," says Ronald Hampton of the National Black Police Association. "So these guys internalize the racist, oppressive culture of the police department in order to succeed...
...Jones. His record is riddled with cowardly charges--stealing a bike from a 12-year-old, snatching purses from women. But should the punishment be a beating and five bullet wounds? "What I saw was excessive for what was happening at the moment," says Leslie Seymore, a retired Philadelphia cop and president of the local A.C.L.U. chapter...
...nuanced, and often puzzling, tinkering with the names of new series. Every year, through some alchemy, network execs swap one misguided name for an equally misguided one or, more puzzlingly, one bland name for an equally bland, and in fact almost identical, one. Last year, one quickly canceled Fox cop show - "Ryan Caulfield," a.k.a. "The Badland," a.k.a. "Ryan Caulfield: Year One" - had almost as many names as it did airings. And already this year, a good half-dozen new network series have undergone title surgery...
Officer Ken Robinson, 36, drove from Lawrenceburg, Ind., for the Seattle police test. Originally from Washington State, Robinson left a $14.70-an-hour job as a construction worker to become a cop. "I took a 50% cut in pay to come here, where I'm risking my neck for $8.70 an hour," says Robinson, a former Marine and father of two. Before moving in 1994, Robinson had made inquiries with the Seattle police department, but there were no openings. Now the recruiters are coming...
...Charles Robert Carner, the writer-director, blithely shuffles fact and innuendo. Because his idea of cinematic action is to have people walk briskly and talk loudly while the camera jitters like a hophead cadging a handout. Because Gregory Hines and Jim Belushi, as the Spin sleuths, are too good cop-bad cop. And because the white suspects are yokels who'd make John Rocker sound like John Gielgud. Your Honor, please, can we have a little order in this courtroom drama...