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...Shows like Cops let the American people see what the police are really like." John Cosgrove, a Kansas City, Kans., patrolman who was accompanied by a Cops crew on his midnight shift for two weeks last summer, enjoyed the experience. "Most officers would be apprehensive to have the media ride with them," he says. "But these guys proved themselves to us. They said they wouldn't do anything to undermine us, and that we'd have final discretion about what ran." (Each episode of Cops is reviewed by the police before airing, in part to make sure no investigations...
...have refused cooperation with most of the TV cop shows. A reporter in the patrol car is not only an inconvenience, says San Diego captain Dave Warden, but can "prevent supervisors from doing their work -- whether counseling an officer or reprimanding him." The Los Angeles police department does permit ride-alongs -- an average of 10 a week, ranging from journalists to screenwriters and community activists -- but only with reluctance. Says Lieut. John Duncan: "It has a negative impact on our ability to do police work...
...actually tried to reproduce Shiny Happy C-26 in Harvard's somber libraries. During reading period last semester, John Black caught a ride to Lamont in a coat pocket. We read Freud and Civil War history, and he sat aside patiently, his mouth open wide in an ecstatic grin. He wanted us to do well; we're sure of this. We get loving support from all our little toy pals...
...thing, I just don't think that's the only way. I have raised the gas tax. I am not against the gas tax, but a nickel a year for a decade is too much for people who don't live in urban areas and ride mass transit...
...inclusion of the new album's less impressive material, such as the virtually pointless "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?", seemed unnecessary and frustrating when many of the best U2 songs were left off the set list. The most disappointing and inexcusable omission was the band's failure to perform such classics as "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "New Year's Day," and "Exit...