Word: nypd
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...brunt of the statement is a call to reform the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and to reduce instances of police impropriety...
...right, though, that for the first time in history, it's pretty good to be a creative person. With all these websites looking for shows, even writers are finding gainful employment. Charles Dahlgren, 27, and Sam Music, 25, had been showing their NYPD Blue and Action scripts to every agency in Los Angeles and getting rejected by all of them. So they decided to use their own money to make an Internet version of The Satan Show--a cartoon allegory in which hell is ruled by people who closely resemble the Hollywood execs who had been rejecting...
Like components of the college curriculum, the major cop dramas of the past decade represent three different ways of seeing the world. NYPD Blue is policing as social science, fixated on alcoholism, racism, whateverism. Law and Order? Hard science, with its brass-tacks forensic empiricism...
...only The Beat were a bit more different. The leads' personal crises--a commitment problem, a crazy girlfriend--are too familiar; the show makes the NYPD Blue mistake of acting as if tired melodramas take on depth simply because cops experience them. (In fact, its funny take on police grunt work is its true strength.) But it has nicely observed dialogue and fine, understated performances--and if anyone can inject needed life into this genre, it's Fontana. "His instinct is great," says David Zayas, a New York City policeman who acts in the series. "He would have made...
...Philadelphia Police Department policy unveiled Tuesday that provides women's groups, such as Women Organized Against Rape and the Women's Law Project, with input and oversight pertaining to departmental policies for investigating rape cases. This may not exactly be akin to handing the reins of the NYPD over the NAACP, but law enforcement experts cite it as a revolutionary step in including a disaffected group in a department's policy-making. The Philly PD's sex-crimes unit has been the target of public ire for years, because - as former and current top-level department officials have admitted - since...