Word: cops
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...dusk fell on Tulsa's bustling Memorial Drive, Mike Hall, 14, was playing cop -- but the blue-and-white Gran Fury police car he was sitting in was no toy. The driver, patrolman Rick Coleman, had just hauled over a truck for driving without lights. As Coleman climbed out to question the trucker, his passenger couldn't resist temptation. He flicked on the car's red spotlight and played the beam up and down the side of a darkened warehouse...
Luckily for Hall, Coleman missed the antics. The kid and the cop are buddies, but Mike is also an auto thief who was sentenced to an indeterminate period of probation last year after he and a friend hot-wired an Olds Cutlass and led police on a mile-long chase. For 10 months Mike rode long hours in the cruiser with Coleman as part of an experiment to reform young delinquents. The theory behind the program is that cops can be strong role models for the youths, who get to view crime from the victims' perspective, a shock that courts...
Society's busiest busybodies are in the press, where, under cover of the Constitution, they expose, scold and ridicule public figures, and sometimes win Pulitzer Prizes for it. In the putative national interest, reporters have taken on the roles of mother superior, party boss, neighborhood snoop and cop on the beat. No one knows exactly what the moral code is, but anyone who runs for office, or otherwise pre-empts public attention, violates it at his peril...
...mores of the other's culture. That technique is evident in The Song Dog, the title of which refers to a tribal folkloric figure who speaks in Delphic riddles. Once Kramer formally meets Zondi, halfway through the book -- after assuming he is a Bantu hoodlum, not an undercover cop -- they quickly form a bond. Kramer is not a white of great racial sensitivity, or Zondi a black of great deference. But they respect each other because they keep reaching the same conclusions -- while reflecting cultural differences by getting there through divergent, if equally plausible, chains of reasoning...
...Africa's government engages in constant surveillance, so, in McClure's vision, do its citizens spy on one another, usually out of jealousy or greed. The consequences are often fatal. This peeping and prying is a focus of The Steam Pig and of two other memorable entries: The Caterpillar Cop and The Gooseberry Fool. Fittingly, Zondi and Kramer meet in The Song Dog after surreptitiously trailing each other, each in search of clues to his own case...