Word: sipowicz
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Perhaps the most chilling moment comes when Starr defends his staff for telling Lewinsky she risked 27 years' imprisonment if she called her lawyer. He explains that she was "a felon in the middle of committing another felony." Is she an Uzi-wielding drug dealer? Detective Sipowicz couldn't have put it better...
...criticism of independent counsel Kenneth Starr went largely to his unchecked power. Former Republican independent counsel Joseph diGenova calls the whole setup "a constitutional monstrosity." Now we watch as a prosecutor gunning for a President uses tactics to dig up dirt that would make NYPD Blue's Detective Sipowicz blanch. Starr not only pulled a sting on a former White House intern but reportedly planned to wire her to run one on the President himself, as if he were John Gotti...
...have to have a moment's sympathy for the President to know that this convergence of Jones, Starr and the FBI is not right. No one is worried much about civil liberties when Sipowicz is browbeating the bad guy on NYPD Blue. But the latest Washington drama is for real. As Starr disgraces the Judicial Branch and Clinton the Executive one, things once lost--like respect for privacy, the presidency and proportion--cannot be retrieved. Next up: perhaps the Legislative Branch, to stage a trial blending the worst of Watergate and Melrose Place, a show so repulsive it might even...
There is, in fact, nothing to prevent such guest appearances from people who have their professional credentials from another show. If that perp on Law & Order who's trying to confess is ignored by Detective Briscoe, what if Detective Sipowicz walked in and gave him a couple of quick whacks to focus his attention...
...perp confesses, would that leave Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy with nothing to do? No. Because the Law & Order detectives, unaccustomed to Sipowicz's interrogation techniques, would arrest him for police brutality. Sipowicz would know enough to clam up and call a lawyer. Finally a suspect from NYPD Blue would go to trial...