Abstract
"Frontline," the award-winnnng WGBH-TV series, is airing a nationally televised special on the war against street drugs. The show, called "Street Cop," takes viewers to Boston's inner city for fifty minutes of heart-pumping violence. We see the police take a sledgehammer to an apartment door in search of drugs as the women and children inside scream in wide-eyed terror. We watch police officers wrestle a young man to the pavement over a suspected drug deal, and we feel the tension mount during a domestic argument until in the confusion a woman is arrested for throwing what an officer thought was a stone. Later, it turns out to have been a shoe. If war is hell, "Street Cop" says that life in Roxbury cannot be far behind.
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Johnson, Kirk A.
(1987)
""Street Cop" is not Street-Smart,"
Trotter Review: Vol. 1:
Iss.
2, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/trotter_review/vol1/iss2/7
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