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...best thing that can be said about Nighthawks is that it's short. Imagine Billy Dee Williams as Sergeant Fox and Sylvester Stallone as Sergeant DaSilva roaming the streets of the Bronx and combing Central Park, as decoy cops in a simpleminded parody of The Supercops and Serpico. We are to believe that the greatest service a policeman can do to stifle crime must be done while he wears a dress. As this dashing duo heroically traipses past Third Avenue, the scene shifts to London, where Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer). The Villian, has just blown up a department store. "There...
Happily, the remedy to his dilemma comes to Nam in a dream: a blue-eyed American sergeant breaks into a bucolic toy community and despoils the place. Animal figurines and little children drive out the invader. So inspired is Nam that he rushes out to the rifle range and knocks off four G.I. targets in a row. As schoolmates cheer, an instructor exclaims, "When you have enough hatred, you can hit them...
Women are crowding into classes on the use of tear gas, contained in tiny canisters that can be hooked on to key chains. One important lesson: how to use the gas before an assailant turns it against the victim. As Los Angeles Police Sergeant John McCarthy puts it: "Being aggressive is kind of hard for a lot of people." After attending one such class, Patricia Sherman, 29, a lawyer, complained: "I think this incites fear in people. I wasn't as scared before as I am now." But another class member, Phillip Heffernan, 30, contends: "If the crooks knew that...
There is little doubt that the police need help, particularly at a time when the fiscal crisis has caused manpower cutbacks. "Police officers feel embattled," says Sergeant Jim Moad, a 16-year veteran of the Los Angeles force. "We're getting it from all sides. The attitude is 'It's me and my partner against the world.' All every cop is trying to do is survive until he can retire." Detective Myron Ludvick of New York's harassed force admits that it is difficult to forget about his own survival. "You have to be able to tune that...
...right of self-defense is a fundamental one, and if I know how to use a gun and feel I need one for self-defense, whose business is it to say that I shouldn't own one?" After eight years of trying to fight crime in Houston, Police Sergeant John Gilbert is one of many law officers who see merit in this view. Says he: "It's getting to the point where it's up to the citizens to protect themselves. And the way to do that is with guns." (Houston has the second highest murder rate...