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Parents like the fact that their kids finally have real role models, not radioactive rock stars and bionic athletes. Being a cop or a fire fighter is now less a trade than a calling. Leaving Shea Stadium after a New York Mets game one summer afternoon, an 8-year-old boy with a baseball glove approaches the cops directing traffic and asks one to sign it. "Don't you want a ballplayer's autograph? Why a cop's?" the officer asks. The boy responds, "Because you helped save the world...
Newman and Patel were developing an enormously effective legal chemistry. They share a gluttonous appetite for work, and they make a natural good cop-bad cop team. "Our personalities fit together. He's the nice one," she admits. "I'm very aggressive. He calms me down." They worked out a division of labor, splitting up the petition into chunks according to who had expertise in what, swapping drafts and editing each other's work. "We've pulled some fairly close to all-nighters," says Patel. "Things where we say, 'We just have to do X, and we don't leave...
...full of sexists is perhaps the most believable part of the whole film.) Kung fu flick aficionados will recognize Mok's character from roles played by Michelle Yeoh in the early 80s and 90s. Mok even does a backflip through glass as Yeoh did in 1985's Super Cop...
Vang is a police officer with the Sacramento police department, assigned to the problem-oriented policing unit. He is also a Laos-born member of the Hmong. The combination--his cop instincts and Hmong sensibility--enables Vang to be an effective negotiator in Hmong cases, including recurring episodes of gang violence between north-side teens and another Hmong gang in the southern part of town. Vang works on cases of all types, and frequently they involve drugs. In Del Paso Heights methamphetamines are the drug of choice. In Sacramento just last week federal authorities indicted 10 people on charges...
...emotional range expands. For all its flashy violence, it has become a work of aching sadness and irony about people who can't say what they feel and so express themselves with bullets and money. In the season premiere, Tony's nephew Christopher (Michael Imperioli) finds an ex-cop who, Tony tells him, killed Chris' father when he was a baby. Chris realizes that Tony--the closest thing he has to a father--may be lying to him, using him, but he sadistically kills the cop anyway. Then he visits his mother, tries fumblingly to talk to her about...