Word: cops
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...come. The Los Angeles Times reported last week that in 1996 nine Rampart officers took part in a shoot-out that left one suspected gang member dead and two people wounded. A review board said those shootings were justified, but now Perez says they were "dirty"; cops may have planted guns on those suspects as well. Federal authorities have joined the investigation, which could stretch to Las Vegas, where some Rampart officers may have partied with a fellow cop after he committed a bank robbery. "Sooner or later, the truth will come out," says Gloria Romero, grandmother of Ovando...
Zwick, 46, and Herskovitz, 47, met as American Film Institute students in the mid-'70s and cut their teeth churning out genre work. But the only scenes they cared about, says Zwick, were "the ones where the cop's at home with his wife and kids." When their hit 1983 nuclear-scare TV flick Special Bulletin gave them a shot at their own series, Herskovitz recalls, "we said, 'What if we just do the stuff we're interested...
About to be busted when a jewel heist goes awry, Miles Logan hides the loot--a humongous diamond--in a construction site. Released from jail two years later, he discovers the finished building is now a police station. To recover the gem, he impersonates a cop. It's not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing as Logan, who, naturally, has a gift for apprehending burglars. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing, so the star is mostly reduced to pulling faces, yelling obscenities and, when all else fails, pointless juking and jiving as he waits...
...Watson, entering his third year as Cambridge's top cop, is no more popular elsewhere--not with most city officials, not with some residents, and not even with many of his patrol officers...
...disaffected Eastern elite what the Daily Racing Form is to gambling addicts, found Purdy just as cloying and irritating. Among New Yorkers whose daily bread is irony, heavily buttered with sarcasm and ridicule, Purdy's message of earnest civic-mindedness was as welcome as a vice cop at a bachelor party...