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...news you don't know how to take--is it reassuring that these people were apprehended or terrifying that they were out there to begin with? The New York Times took the former attitude, dutifully reporting Mayor Rudy Giuliani's boats about the crack police work of the NYPD. Once crucial detail especially worked to Giuliani's advantage: John J. Royster, the man who confessed to a brutal beating in Central Park and a murder on Park Avenue, was caught because he was fingerprinted during an arrest three months ago--for turnstile-hopping. That kind of "quality-of-life" crime...
...excused for feeling a bit like outsiders at a family dinner where all the conversation consists of in-jokes. Ever since the Walt Disney Co. announced its $19 billion purchase of ABC last summer, Hollywood has looked for signs that the network of Home Improvement, Ted Koppel and NYPD Blue is being transformed into a subdivision of the Magic Kingdom. Leave it to Roseanne to get the issue out in the open...
Swift (Jack McCaffrey), the hero of the new drama Swift Justice (UPN, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. est), belongs to another television era, a time before cop shows like NYPD Blue, Homicide and Law & Order grounded the genre in reality with unglamorously complex characters and somber portrayals of urban life. But to all good things must come a backlash. And so Swift Justice harks back to a period of frequent car chases, poorly staged punch-outs and cartoonishly evil bad guys...
...victims-either of Bridges' noncommittal ways or of nasty evildoers from whom they need Y-chromosome-enhanced protection. Prostitutes in danger turn up on both shows, looking not at all as they do on the streets of the grittiest precincts in urban America, or even as they do on NYPD Blue. Waifish and fresh-faced, they resemble well-educated publishing assistants saving up for a smart twin...
...been taken by some poor lad who desperately wanted to race pigeons but lacked the wherewithal to buy his own flock. Alfie was able to imagine the Trafalgar Square pigeons soaring gracefully over the Somerset moors or being pampered by a kindly pigeon fancier like that nice detective on NYPD Blue...