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...cop to be good? In countries that have recently shed authoritarian rule, the issue is especially pressing. "It is a huge transition for the police to go from protecting the interests of the state to protecting its citizens," says Jim Curran, dean of special programs at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He and his colleagues at the school have developed a course meant to reverse the effects of years of bad police practices. Since 1994, more than 3,000 cops in 50 troubled countries have taken "Human Dignity and Policing," funded by the Department of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: Teaching Cops Right from Wrong | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...burly former New York City street cop, Curran knew he wouldn't reach his students just by preaching to them. "You can't lecture someone into change," he says. So he sought to make the lessons deeply personal. Part group therapy, part confessional, the course asks cops first to talk about how they have been humiliated in their lives. In Bosnia police noted that their superiors strip-searched them at the end of each shift to take whatever bribes they had collected. In Latin America cops complained of being regularly forced to do menial work, like building houses for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: Teaching Cops Right from Wrong | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...this is watchable enough, because Lonergan writes sharp dialogue and has more respect for plot than many playwrights these days. But none of it sticks to the ribs. Some blame goes to the actors (as Dawn, the female cop, Heather Burns has no street cred at all) and to Mark Brokaw's direction, which is too broad. But the fault lies mostly with Lonergan, who betrays his much vaunted realism with contrivance and cheap laughs at every turn. Example: Jeff, the cutely self-aware nincompoop, doesn't want to betray his boss's confidence, so he tells the whole story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway and Beyond | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

History suggests that something--be it a Wayans brother, a pill-popping cop or a fluffy rabbit--should surprise and win over the audience soon. In 1983-84 there was one sitcom--Kate & Allie--in the top 10. The next year The Cosby Show debuted. With the Friends soon to receive their Modern Maturity subscriptions, the right attention-grabbing comic at the right time could end up one lucky bunny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: More Than Yuks Redux | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...enforcement officers pursuing them, Robert De Niro's cop, Eddie Flemming, and Edward Burns' arson investigator, Jody Warsaw, the former is the more interesting. Flemming is a media favorite--a PEOPLE cover boy, always good for a sound bite and, says Herzfeld, based on a real New York City detective. Flemming thinks his celebrity helps him in his work. We may think differently as this bloody story evolves. But he is a novel, disturbing movie character. And his prey, with their fresh, almost innocent, foreigner's insight into how to maneuver the media for their own ends, are too. Best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Visions of False Realities | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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