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Report to the Commissioner is the story of Bo Lockley, a self-doubting rookie cop who joins the New York City Police Department out of remorse over his brother's death in Vietnam, but also in deference to the wishes of his father, a tough police veteran. Bo had planned to file for C.O. status in the draft prior to his brother's death; in the confusion of becoming a sole surviving son and not having to tell his father of his reticence to enter the army. Bo is moved by conscience to gratify his father and join the force...
...bares the personal ambition and selfishness which seep into law enforcement and often bring those most responsible for the law to circumvent it. He portrays a captain and lieutenant who chance serious reprisals in order to gain a breakthrough which will lead to promotion. In the process, they use Lockley as a pawn to further their plan, and they risk the life of an audacious female undercover agent, Past Butler, whose voluntary role in the scheme is to bed down with a high-rolling black pimp who works Times Square. The irony upon which Mills builds his book is that...
...Mills has the knack of clothing anger in fact, and he is one of the few writers today who understand police work and can make policemen both believable and human. The most interesting thing about his novel is the squaring off between the young cop, whose name is Bo Lockley, and the police establishment. Bo is an inept, unskeptical idealist, "hurt by animals he didn't know were in the jungle." Of course the foolhardy girl agent should not have been allowed to pursue her plan of seducing the pusher in order to get information...
...second enclosure, the Extensive Pen, Lockley put a single buck and two does. With a whole acre of grass and a buck to share between them, the does responded reproductively as rabbits are expected to do. Between December and the following July, they produced 36 young. But even this two-Eve Eden was not happy. "The isolated buck in the Extensive Pen," says Lockley, "although enjoying two wives without competition, nevertheless spent most of his time patrolling the fence between the two pens, endeavoring to break into the Intensive Pen, where he could see other males and females. These males...
Death of Chagrin. The defeated male had been king buck in his own enclosure, so Lockley put him back again to see what would happen. Alas, he found no happiness. Says Lockley: "He found the next dominant buck in the hierarchy in possession of both wife and warren. The physical and psychological effects of being beaten in strange territory were evidently still with him, for as he approached his old home, he moved uncertainly. When the secondary buck rushed to attack, the old king put up a feeble defense, and at last ran away, badly bitten, to die-less...