Word: patrolman
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...July 1974, was hired as a patrolman with the Anchorage Police Department...
...they do well - for a time. Then, naturally, they don't do so well. There's a suspenseful and near-horrific incident with a smuggled baby. There's an increasingly nosy state patrolman who may possibly have an inarticulate romantic interest in Ray. There's trouble with the Indians over Lila and her illegitimate baby and, of course, over the fact that she is breaking the law. And Ray's sons, both nice kids, are restive and in need of closer supervision. In the end, rough, but not draconian, justice is meted out to Ray, but a thin...
...avuncular chief (Jim Broadbent) tells him, "You come from a city where there's danger round every corner, and it's driven you round the bend." Nick's only ally is the chief's son Danny (Nick Frost, also from Shaun of the Dead), a Marmaduke-like patrolman whose love of American action films makes him think of Nick as Martin Riggs and Marcus Burnett combined, but with a nicer accent...
...drunken salarymen who, buzzed from a night of office imbibing, threatened to take headers off the platform. "He held the safety of the people in this community as his top priority," says Hiroshi Kawano, a local grocer. Miyamoto was an ordinary omawari-san - Mr. Patrolman - one of thousands of cops who man the kobans, the police booths, found in even the smallest Tokyo neighborhoods and many of which the city, in a cost-cutting measure, may soon shut down...
...tone that Healey’s campaign has taken in recent weeks. The ads under fire attack Patrick, a former Dunster House resident, for his soft stance on crime by drawing on the Democratic candidate’s involvement in the cases of Carl Ray Songer, who killed a patrolman in Florida, and Benjamin LaGuer, a convicted rapist. Specifically, Healey, an alum of South House, now Cabot, has criticized Patrick for overturning Songer’s death sentence when the candidate was a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and for aiding and donating money...