Word: nypd
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...told TIME, in his first interview since being replaced. "But I understand their decision. The screenplays and production were lagging behind. They have an asset that needs to be protected." Lurie will nominally stay with the show, but the reins will be turned over to veteran producer Steven Bochco (NYPD Blue). "I feel like my baby is being adopted," Lurie says. "But at least it's being adopted by a Rockefeller...
...includes a female soldier with a disturbingly Lynndie England--ish streak. An insurgent is hit by a projectile that vaporizes him from the waist up; his legs totter a few ghastly steps before collapsing. All this was nearly too much even for executive producer Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue) when FX pitched him the idea. The show, he worried, "would by its very nature tend to be political if not politicized." He finally decided that the basic human drama was like that in his cop shows, and the content was ugly but necessary. "Without dramatizing the consequences...
...none approached the popularity of his 87th Precinct series, which, beginning with 1956's Cop Hater, followed the personal and professional lives of a team of utterly human cops solving brutal crimes and paved the way for countless crime writers and hit TV shows like Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue...
...Truck bombs, not hijacked planes, were the subject of an April 8th NYPD vulnerability report that caused developers and politicians, already under fire for rising costs and construction delays, to announce that they would have to reinforce the slender structure or move it further from the street. Experts say the design changes could delay the completion date of the building from 2008 to as late as 2010. Aesthetes worry that the best countermeasure for truck bombs-concrete, and lots of it-will ruin the airy grace of the original tower design and perhaps preclude some of its more symbolic features...
...were the planners, who endowed the Freedom Tower with security features for everything from burning jet fuel to anthrax spores, unprepared for a Ryder Truck filled with explosives? Developers say the NYPD simply ambushed them with shifting demands. Police say they'd been privately raising these concerns for months before their official report. And public watchdogs say the finger-pointing itself is symptomatic of the real problem. "There's a confidence problem here, but it's not about security," says Nikki Stern, executive director of the Families of September 11. "It's about leadership...