Word: cops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Long Island lothario Joey Buttafuoco will have to put his budding show business career on hold. He is back in jail after violating his parole four months ago by soliciting an undercover cop posing as a prostitute. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy," says People page editor Belinda Luscombe. "No one likes a recidivist. His 'career' has stayed afloat because of his public appearances. But he can't very well wear his snakeskin boots in prison, can he?" Buttafuoco may be out of jail in 67 days -- just in time for Thanksgiving with the family...
...worst of times for police departments and the citizens they are sworn to protect. News of declines in the rates of violent crime nationwide has been drowned out by the sound of Mark Fuhrman's voice filling a Los Angeles courtroom--swaggering and all too believable as the former cop describes the brutalizing of suspects, fabrication of evidence and abuse of minorities. Although the O.J. Simpson jury will hear only two small snippets of the Fuhrman screed, to the rest of America the tapes provide a profane voice-over to real-life police corruption and brutality dramas that have been...
...themselves. The answer in part lies in the way departments are set up and managed, and also within the hearts of the officers themselves. "The people in a position to do something about brutality and racism are products of the system," explains James Fyfe, a former New York City cop who teaches criminal justice at Temple University." There's a sense that their loyalty should be to the department, not to the public...
...house, his cautious tread accompanied by a few high-pitched notes in the violins, pregnant with mystery and menace. As he reaches the landing, a door flies open in a glint of flashing steel: suddenly the strings shriek rhythmically, as the knife blade slashes down and the stricken cop topples backward to his death in a symphony of pizzicato cellos and basses. We not only see his death; we hear it as well...
...people living on, the ones who profess such shocked surprise at the Mark Fuhrman tapes? Haven't they heard what black people have been telling them all these years: that the ranks of major police departments all across the country are full of Fuhrman-style lying bigots? Not all cops, by any means, not even most of them, but enough to generate a steady stream of racially motivated police misconduct. Most of it never makes the national news--the hundreds of cases in which minority suspects are manhandled, beaten or even killed. But certainly the most outrageous incidents, from...