Word: corruptable
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...YOUR STORY ON CORRUPTION IN THE New Orleans police force [Crime, March 20], you imply that the reason police officer Antoinette Frank killed three people was that she was overworked and underpaid. But that cannot be the reason for triple murder. Here is another example of deviant behavior being "defined down'' to manageable proportions, affording Frank "victim'' status, rationalizing her heinous crime and making it more acceptable. She made a conscious choice to commit murder. She is responsible for that choice, and not the police, however corrupt...
Then there is Kemper Boyd, a corrupt FBI agent from a once illustrious and then bankrupt Tennessee family ("My father went broke and killed himself. He willed me ninety-one dollars and the gun he did it with"). Recognizing an accomplished sneak when he sees one, Director J. Edgar Hoover persuades Kemper to tender a sham resignation from the agency--while retaining his salary--and to hire on with Bobby Kennedy's Senate investigative team as a spy. Hoover hates the Kennedys. But Kemper, who gets the job, takes to the brothers, especially Jack, in whom he recognizes...
...that Talalay seems obliged to package these scenes of glorious heat lightning in the same ol', same ol', bad guy/good guy, action-movie plot. Although spoofing the conventional action movie is hardly original, Talalay's failure to comment on or corrupt the form seems naive, and betrays Tank Girl, forcing upon her the burden of morals. It's ironic that the three dimensional characters of the comic book become flat, at least in their simplistic division between good and evil, in the medium of film...
...Early's daughter--handsome, flaky Burry (short for Berenice)--who, like her father, is totally corrupt. She is good at dancing on tables and at rather taxing bouts of sex. She and her fancy Manhattan friends, "a club of frauds who think they are the center of the universe," love that sort of thing. Jack, a dogged public-interest lawyer, falls hard for Burry. Before long he is doing dirty tricks for Early's henchmen and bungling them: he snaps a photo of an opponent's "mistress" who turns out to be his sister. At the time Jack's only...
...Orleans cops, in particular, so corrupt? Both the Frank case and the drug-ring case suggest part of an answer. Frank and the fellow officer she is charged with killing both worked in that eastern New Orleans restaurant as security guards during their off-duty hours; Davis and his colleagues were also working off-duty security jobs. This sort of moonlighting is known in police jargon as "detail" work and is a fixture of the New Orleans police department. Because police there are among the lowest paid in any major city in America--a fresh recruit makes...