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...television season begins, I can't help wondering whether this will be the year when somebody on NYPD Blue gets to go to trial. In the past, a malefactor who's brought into the station house by detectives on that program ends up confessing. Anyone who wants his day in court has to get arrested by detectives from Law & Order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...Order, in fact, a trial is practically de rigueur. Imagine what would happen if a career criminal who's used to being picked up by NYPD Blue gets busted by the Law & Order detectives instead. I picture him sitting in the interview room saying, "Isn't there anybody around here I can confess to? I'd really like to get this off my chest." Detective Briscoe doesn't even look up. He's dialing one of the assistant district attorneys who will be doing the prosecuting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...house has been bitterly divided as at least two cops came forward to finger their collegues. What lawyers from the Civil Rights Division of Justice intend to investigate is whether this alleged abuse is a freak incident ? or whether it is indicative of a wider racial problem in the NYPD. That's what all New Yorkers would like to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice Comes to Brooklyn | 8/19/1997 | See Source »

YPDN--young people doing nothing. Signifies Seinfeld and Friends. See also: YPDNOAB--young people doing nothing on a beach (for Baywatch) and YPSNB--young people showing naked behinds (for NYPD Blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NTVRSMESFHAF | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

Jones plays the unflappable agent "k", who's apparently never met an E.T. that he couldn't place. Smith, a former NYPD cop, joins him as agent-in-training "J" after running down and almost bagging an alien offender. They're soon confronted with the mother of all diplomatic crises: when the big bad extraterrestrial Bug lands on Earth, assassinates a high-ranking alien and steals a galaxy (don't ask), the assassinated alien's compatriots threaten to destroy Earth if the galaxy isn't recovered...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: KING ALIEN BOOTY | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

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