Word: nypd
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After Hill Street came a string of dramas that broke with the procedural format to tell complex stories with deeply developed characters: St. Elsewhere, L.A. Law, Wiseguy, thirtysomething, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, NYPD Blue, The X-Files, My So-Called Life, Ally McBeal, The West Wing. This is not to say that the '80s and '90s were some kind of Renaissance--we have not forgotten Models Inc. But these shows believed that drama was first about character--fleshing out a set of people, week after week--and that human behavior was ultimately a more engaging mystery than any murder...
...constituency. And that's what character-driven shows need--to get an audience invested in the people, which happens over a series of episodes." Later this season Bochco will debut Blind Justice, an ABC drama about a sightless cop. It looks to be much less serial than his NYPD Blue (which goes off the air after this season); it also uses nifty visual effects to show how its lead "sees" a crime scene that look a lot like...
...happened during games 6 and 7 in New York and how they were reported to have happened here on Wednesday—along with what I witnessed after attending the first game of the World Series last Saturday—makes me realize how much more in tune the NYPD is with crowd control...
...openly wearing his hat and Curt Schilling shirt in the heart of the Bronx, you’d expect that I would be terrified of harassment from the Yankee fans. But the NYPD was literally everywhere—paddy wagons lined the streets and officers strolled through the crowd both before and after the games. In the stadium, there were at least two police officers in every section. In addition, undercover police officers patrolled the scene outside of the stadium, and I personally saw one accost an out-of-control...
...police officers around the stadium after a sporting event will have an effect on the attitude of the revelers. At Yankee Stadium, the police officers that I encountered calmly acted as if they were in total control of the situation. With cops and undercover officers throughout the stadium, the NYPD took a proactive response to the possibility of drunken escapades...