Word: copping
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...been very good to the ’hood. With the recent run of popular HBO show “The Wire,” the drama of the American inner-city has earned critical street cred: everyone is talking about it. The recently released “Cop in the Hood” capitalizes on this spike in interest about the worst drug markets of Baltimore, Md., as it brings a sociologist’s eye to the situation that captivated the interest of millions nationwide...
...routine is dealing with aircrafts that have anywhere between two and four hundred people on board, and that are traveling at about 600 miles an hour. They all have an objective - to get the airplane on the ground as quickly as possible. And I have to be the traffic cop. In the high-density terminal environment, there's one individual who has to pull it all together, and that...
...Clearly something wrong happened because an innocent man was killed," Peter Moskos, author of Cop in the Hood, and a professor at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told TIME. "But that's not what the system was testing. They were testing if there was reasonable doubt. I think the verdict is fair, but it doesn't address that this man was killed. The court system is no place to address these problems...
...greeted me with the same big smile and handshake I had gotten 20 minutes earlier. Same pleas to get home: "Please, can't you help me, Scott?" (I gave him the same "We're working on it" cop-out.) He regaled me with a different story about the boys at the club, though, with different details. But no reference to my earlier rounds. When I asked, "Do you remember what we talked about 20 minutes ago?" he was all smiles and familiar reassurances. But when I asked for specifics, they were wrong. That was it. He was confabulating...
...babies to ensure the U.S. a liberal majority. Gessen sees all of modern society as this struggle for power. Nearly every single interaction in the book is framed as a power struggle, and it all reads so true. As Keith’s explains his run-in with a cop, “I could see him trying to think of some way to keep me under his dominion, for just another minute. But I was too old, I was too confident.” When Celeste refuses to leave her boyfriend, Mark consoles himself with the assertion that...