Word: nypd
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...many feel that even if the jurors cannot be held accountable, the New York Police Department (NYPD) should be. The NYPD, with its "stop and frisk" tactics, is infamous for its abuses against minorities, the most famous being the case of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who was sodomized with a toilet plunger while being "interrogated" by the police...
...things are harder to fix than the tarnished image of a police force. The NYPD, for example, recently saw the p.r. efforts that followed the Abner Louima torture case nullified, first when Mayor Giuliani discarded a task force report that called for departmental overhaul and now with the trial of the cops who fired more than 40 bullets into unarmed Amadou Diallo. Mention of the Chicago Police Department, despite the absence of recent major scandals, still evokes images of protesters brutalized and hosed down by rampaging police outside the 1968 Democratic convention. But no American police department has been...
Shue is married to director Davis Guggenheim, who has worked on episodes of ''ER,'' ''NYPD Blue,'' and ''Party of Five...
...think Steven Bochco was the Branch Rickey of American dramatic television. Ever since the announcement of City of Angels (CBS, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.), an urban-hospital drama with a mostly black cast, the powerful producer (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue) has been portrayed like the man who brought Jackie Robinson to the majors: the beneficent white guy who ushered minority talent onto the playing field of TV drama...
...idea of government quietly taking a hand in shaping TV programs is also one of those slippery slopes. If Washington can offer financial incentives to work antidrug dialogue into Drew Carey, why not induce NYPD Blue to have Sipowicz plug gun control every time he plugs a suspect? Even worse, depending on who runs Congress, Buffy the Vampire Slayer could end up pro-life one season and pro-choice the next...