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...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...
...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...
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...
...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...