Word: closeup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...departments is finding the time and resources to make community policing work. Though some CPOP cops are assigned full time to the job, many cities are trying to rely largely on patrol-car officers' doubling as community police. But the frequency of 911 calls means that their time for closeup patrolling is limited. Houston's Neighborhood Oriented Policing program, known as NOP, is sometimes referred to derisively by police themselves as Nobody on Patrol...
...cover story was written by associate editor Nancy Gibbs, who decided to take a closeup look herself. Gibbs visited E.R.s in New York City and Washington, where she followed Dr. Michael Bourland and his staff through a grueling tour of duty at George Washington University Medical Center. "I can't imagine a tougher job than working in an emergency room," she says. "The pressure is relentless; the stakes are life itself...