Word: cops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hoke is a grizzled cop, a down-market Columbo, ill at ease in the new Miami of drug millions and Hispanic flash. Junior, who has stolen Hoke's gun, badge and false teeth, is just the sort of criminal throwback Hoke understands. But Junior's girl Susie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a mystery. A sweet cracker from upstate, this Princess Not-So-Bright is grateful to Junior for the minutest graces: he eats her cooking and doesn't beat her. She and the con are lost souls sharing a postcard vision of Nirvana: a cloudless beach, a dog leaping...
...rush to death leaves Cuomo both angry and sad. "It's the ultimate political cop-out," he says. "It reflects the unwillingness of candidates to propose programs that might actually impact on crime, because that might mean spending money, and that can mean tax increases. It is easier to hold out a quick fix, the idea that all will be well if we just burn people...
...Like a cop on a beat, Mahon patrols the Northside, stopping to chat with anyone who will return her smile. At the Fiesta Mart, the noisy, pinata- bedecked hub of the neighborhood, Mahon stops to urge a security guard to bring his wife to a Madres meeting. Then she walks over to Edith Espinoza, who is wrapping food under a blinking red neon light trumpeting FRESH TORTILLAS. Espinoza, about eight months pregnant, knows Mahon but doesn't know English. So, with some help from the store manager, she informs Mahon that she is going to the hospital the next...
...week conducted Operation Child Watch, a nationwide three-day sweep of 3,400 garment shops, restaurants, supermarkets and other businesses suspected of abusing young workers. In all, the operation uncovered 7,000 minors who were illegally employed, which could result in more than $1.8 million in civil fines. "The cop is on the beat," declared Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole. "Violations, whether motivated by greed or by ignorance, will not be tolerated...
...Silver's bravura creepiness. These two help dramatize the danger any woman can find in the desperate intimacy of a big city. By the climax, Megan has to be thinking of Eugene and every other urban brute when she is again asked, "So what made you become a cop...