Word: nypd
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...first thing Paulsen did after she was introduced to Couric by Lilly Tartikoff was line up an A list of celebs to add their limelight to the cause, including NYPD Blue star Dennis Franz, whose father died of colon cancer; St. Louis Cardinal Eric Davis, whose colon cancer was diagnosed when he was 35; and TV's Judge Judy, who lost her mother to the disease. The cash is coming from corporate sponsors. Aetna US Healthcare and others have pledged a total of $10 million, and another $10 million is due from the entertainment industry. But what gets people...
Kabala then points out that Matt Damon might have experienced hardship too; no one doubts that. Everyone experiences hardship at some point in his life. Anyone can be down and out; anyone can be poor; but can anyone be shot 41 times by the NYPD and not see justice served? If you don't think too hard about it, the idea that white males are now the group to be protected can almost sound right. But not quite right. Look around--at Harvard, in the courts, in government and in many other places, white males sit in positions of power...
...impossible to spend millennium eve in Times Square without wanting to make a movie of it. How often are you going to get 2 million extras--not to mention more cops than an episode of NYPD Blue--to assemble for free? Having landed an assignment to be one of the guys who dropped confetti at midnight from the roofs along Broadway, I couldn't resist bringing a digital camcorder along for the ride. Neither could my friend Bill, a reporter at the New York Daily News, who was working the crowds with digicam in hand. I figured our combined footage...
...glorification of the type of policing practiced by Detective Sipowicz on NYPD Blue, where the end always justifies the means, cannot be tolerated. This role model must be changed. Policing is not entertainment. It is real. It is complex. It can be a matter of life or death...
However, from another point of view, blacks should be honoring the NYPD. As Mayor Rudy Giuliani has frequently pointed out, if homicide rates had stayed at 1990 levels (when Mayor David Dinkins, who happens to be black, was in office), thousands more black and Hispanic New Yorkers would be dead. The tactics of squads like the Street Crimes Unit, to which the four officers who shot Diallo belong, have dramatically reduced crime and helped make New York the safest large city in the United States. The greatest tragedy of the Amadou Diallo case is that it has further alienated...