Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fort Apache, The Bronx must be gratefully received, because it provides Newman with his first opportunity in years for a full-scale star turn. "Fort Apache" is the headquarters of New York City's 41st precinct, which encompasses the toughest black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods of the South Bronx. Newman plays a patrolman who is stuck in grade largely because of an excess of street-bred compassion. When the hard-nosed new precinct commander, Edward Asner, decides to shape up the 41st by launching wholesale arrests to nab suspects in the murder of two policemen, the residents run riot...
...graduated from, MTM Enterprises). In Hill Street Blues (written for MTM by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, and directed by Robert Butler), all is motion and commotion; for Hill Street is part of a nameless inner city, and the Blues are the men and women of the local police precinct. Each episode traces a day in the life of the precinct, as the Blues try to defuse street crime, play social worker at knife point, slip out of an octopus stranglehold of red tape, keep their private lives from ending in a singles bar or the divorce court...
...Sixth precinct detectives released the officers immediately after questioning but held Chen overnight and charged him with menacing. Chinatown residents said the police listened only to the housing officers and refused to believe Chen. The officers charged that Lin and Chen were drunk and that they hit Lin in self-defense after he attacked them...
...have been working in this precinct for 30 years and never before have I seen such an incredible turnout," Althea Merchant, the warden of Precinct 3 in Ward 6, said yesterday. Merchant said she attributed the turnout "to the great publicity that the candidates have received and more significantly, the clear-cut distinctions that distinguish the candidates on so many of the issues...
...this precinct and other polling places in Cambridge, most students said they were casting a vote against one of the candidates...