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...PHILIP BANKS JR. RETIRED POLICE LIEUTENANT, NEW YORK CITY...
...PHILIP BANKS DEVELOPED HIS BELIEF IN the "long arm of supervision" while growing up in Harlem and Brooklyn. Even when his father, a truck driver, was away on a trip and his mother was off cleaning other people's homes, neighbors would come over to supervise, scold and soothe. "You always felt like someone was watching," recalls Banks, 53. When he became a father of three boys, he kept close watch and joined the neighborhood block association to help others. His strategy for keeping his children out of trouble: Stick close. "I went to school on PTA night. If there...
...thank God he was." While other neighborhood boys in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn saw their futures disintegrate in a haze of drugs, crime and broken homes, the three Banks boys thrived. Today David, 33, is a lawyer who switched careers and became an assistant elementary-school principal; Philip III, 32, has followed his dad into the police force; and Terence, 30, has started a pest-control company. Banks' three sons all live in Queens, not far from their parents' three-bedroom English Tudor home. All four Banks men attended last Monday's march, and all four came away...
...have a father who lives at home. "When you ask, 'Do you miss your father?,' they say, 'Yes,'" explains David, who has three sons and a daughter. "If you say, 'Would you act like this if your father was here?,' they say, 'No.' It breaks your heart." Middle-son Philip, father of a boy and a girl, has a "general fear of being pulled over by the police," despite nine years with the N.Y.P.D. He still bridles when he recalls being stopped by four cops, who ransacked his car and threatened to plant a bag of marijuana on him until...
Like many African-American women, Janice Banks encouraged her husband and three sons to attend the march. She packed Philip's lunch for the bus trip and says she wouldn't have allowed him to miss that day. "Most times," she says, "you can call women together. If it's just coming together to iron out differences, women don't have a problem doing that. But men usually hold back. This was a man thing." In Janice Banks' view, the meaning of the march was simple: "Brothers need to stand together...