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...Giuliani just say he's sorry? He surely doesn't need to shore up his law-and-order credentials, and by defending virtually every cop no matter how hideous the episode, he does no favor for the 99% of cops who don't shoot first and ask questions later. Giuliani does know how to behave better. When Haitian immigrant Abner Louima was sodomized by a police officer with the handle of a toilet plunger in 1997, Giuliani expressed shock at the brutality and called for a task force to review police-community issues. But that was in the midst...
RUDY GIULIANI Disses unarmed victim of cop shooting. Will NYers develop "zero tolerance" for his antics...
Like components of the college curriculum, the major cop dramas of the past decade represent three different ways of seeing the world. NYPD Blue is policing as social science, fixated on alcoholism, racism, whateverism. Law and Order? Hard science, with its brass-tacks forensic empiricism...
...only The Beat were a bit more different. The leads' personal crises--a commitment problem, a crazy girlfriend--are too familiar; the show makes the NYPD Blue mistake of acting as if tired melodramas take on depth simply because cops experience them. (In fact, its funny take on police grunt work is its true strength.) But it has nicely observed dialogue and fine, understated performances--and if anyone can inject needed life into this genre, it's Fontana. "His instinct is great," says David Zayas, a New York City policeman who acts in the series. "He would have made...
...course no one should be shot for pulling a wallet from his pocket, as Diallo was. But look at the incident from a policeman's point of view. If we are going to put a cop on the street late at night in an area of the city known to have a high crime rate, he has the right to protect himself without fearing that if he does react to a threat he will be put in jail. I sympathize with the Diallo family, but I also feel for the police officers, who put their lives on the line each...