Word: copse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shooflies Buzz. So far, the cops have not enlisted widespread support for such plaints. For example, the American Bar Association standards for police recommend that "law-enforcement policy not be the subject of collective bargaining." But cops on the street are unconvinced, and they increasingly rank the brass and the...
Anticorruption campaigns within departments are so extensive that one P.B.A. has taken to posting pictures and license plates of "shooflies," as internal investigative officers are called. There are also administrative reviews of many of the important decisions a cop makes while on duty. As a result, says Orlando (Fla.) Police...
The emotional pressure of being second-guessed comes on top of the considerable pressures of the job. Police continue to have an unusually high rate of divorce and suicide. But the macho need to deny any weakness is disappearing. One in every nine Boston police officers has sought counseling from...
"Policemen feel they are more and more just numbers, that they are anonymous figures in society, that they are less and less individuals," says Professor George Kirkham, a criminologist at Florida State University who works part time as a patrolman to test his theories. Cops virtually to a man believe...
Most of these matters cancel each other out, but there is just enough energy remaining to make Two-Minute Warning an amusing time waster. Rowlands and Janssen contrive to make something real and affecting out of their soapy roles, and the closing sequence of the movie-full of determined cops...