Word: cops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cleverly built foundation underlies Mallory's Oracle (Putnam; 286 pages; $21.95), by newcomer Carol O'Connell; the author relates that her flamboyant main character, a young cop named Kathleen Mallory, was a Manhattan street kid into her early teens. The experience left her a borderline sociopath, and since she is both gorgeous and unusually bright, she can cause a lot of trouble. Her beloved adoptive uncle, an old police lieutenant, is murdered as the novel begins. She undertakes a lone-wolf investigation, having been forbidden to do so, and wanders like a gun-packing Alice into a mirror world...
...Haitian adventure, the admixture of Carter's mind-set and personality to those of Clinton produced strange effects. Clinton turned himself into the hypermasculine, planes-in-the-air bad cop while Carter fluttered in as the angel of conciliation, the Blanche DuBois of crisis diplomacy...
...Many cops on the street charge that they are being asked to do more with less; just getting the equipment they need requires a major bureaucratic struggle. "A car that breaks down while you're pursuing a suspect? That's stress. A gun that may not work? That's stress," says John Johnston, a 20- year veteran of the Los Angeles police department. The criminals, he takes in stride: "Dealing with bad guys is why I became a cop. What gets you down is the bureaucracy." In his office in the L.A.P.D.'s Northeast division, which includes the grimiest stretch...
...like the fact that the violent criminal doesn't even go to jail." He recalls a thug who attacked a fellow officer a few years ago, wrestled his gun away, jammed it under the officer's bulletproof vest and tried to fire. "He wanted to kill him, but the cop got his hand in between the hammer and the firing pin," Janes says. "I took this guy to jail, and he was joking that he'd do it again if he got the chance. Anyway, 18 months later, I was involved in a car chase. I finally stopped...
...best, being a police officer places terrific stress on a family," says Harvey Schlossberg, the former director of psychological services for the New York City police department and a 20-year veteran himself. Cops "tend to feel very uncomfortable outside the company of other police officers," he observes. "They tend to be very clannish." The hypervigilance that keeps them alive on the street is hard to shed once they're home."It's as if you become a cop 24 hours a day," says the ex-husband of a New Mexico cop. "That's the way you treat everyone -- commanding...