BY ED FELIEN Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau has updated the manual on police conduct. She says officers should “reduce their exposure to a potential threat using distance, cover or concealment”; they should “communicate from a safe position intended to gain the subject’s compliance, using verbal persuasion, advisements or warnings”;…
BY ADAM M. SCHENCK “Bars and Measures,” like the emotive Guthrie play “Disgraced,” takes as its theme the intersection of Islam, terrorism and our politics. The characters have their traits and flaws: Bilal (Ansa Akyea) is a hotheaded convert to Islam and a talented jazz bassist. His younger brother Eric…
BY TONY BOUZA The NYPD I entered on 1/1/53 had a Police-woman’s Bureau (adopting the androgynous “police officer” came about 20 years later and the police union is still called “The Patrolman’s Benevolent Association” —a classic anachronism). There were maybe 150 females in a department of over 20,000, and they…
