His vision, he says, was of "a squad room full of cops, each with different traits, who when put together would form a conglomerate hero".
Two weeks later, there was a counter-demonstration, this one in support of the troops in Vietnam, and when I looked out our window the street was full of cops and firemen and union guys, all waving American flags.
While the network schedules are full of cops, doctors and lawyers, the people on "Friday Night Lights" teach, deliver pizza, sell cars, or if they aren't so lucky, collect welfare.
A sprawling, wry, improbable memoir by a New York City police officer with a Catholic education followed by a Harvard one; his family tree is full of cops, but he chose his career to avoid suits and commutes.
At one counterterrorism-bureau facility, in a darkened room full of cops wearing headphones and silently watching satellite broadcasts on big flat-screen TVs, I met a tall, gaunt officer, whom I'll call Mohamed, taking notes on news reports from Pakistan.
(Riverhead, $26.95.) A sprawling, wry, improbable memoir by a New York City police officer with a Catholic education followed by a Harvard one; his family tree is full of cops, but he chose his career to avoid suits and commutes; what he got was a life full of incident and time to meditate on his observations.
A talky, entertaining novel set in Thailand about two decades after the Vietnam War, full of cops, crooks and prostitutes; its narrator, a Bangkok police detective and son of a respectable prostitute, solves a locked-door murder not through deduction but by meditation and a sensitivity to reincarnation.
"His retirement party is just a bar full of cops," Scott said.
On a block full of cops and contractors, the professors were like visitors from another world.
Cooper dropped off the plate of food and told Suarez that the lobby was full of cops.
