Sentences with phrase «working as cops»

It is concerning that many of the officers disciplined with conduct referred to as «serious» by their own services are still working as cops.

Here's a question for the KIPPs and YES Preps of the world: Would you be happy if, ten years from now, your middle schoolers were working as cops, firefighters, teachers, plumbers, electricians, and nurses?

Often, he was working as a cop at the same time he claimed to be inspecting the bank's ATMs, the IG said.

Flash forward a year and Phil is back at work as a cop, dealing with his grief with the occasional support group meeting and lunches with a friend who lost his daughter (John Leguizamo).

The film has two heroes: an undercover cop working for a gangster, and an undercover gangster working as a cop.

It feels like he's struggled to find what's next but he really works as a cop on the edge in the relatively smart and tense «Den of Thieves,» a movie that's been compared to «Heat» because of its plot and length.

Not exact matches

But the problem fans mostly come from the same mostly working class white and Italian - American South Philadelphia neighborhoods as the cops themselves.

A cop who worked as a bodyguard for Bloomberg was convicted of attempted murder for shooting his girlfriend's ex in the buttocks.

Jeremy Travis, the former president of John Jay College who insiders say is vying for the coveted job of CUNY chancellor, had two retired NYPD cops at his beck and call as chauffeurs, driving him to work everyday as they furnished him with his favorite Starbucks coffee and the day's newspapers for the trip, sources told The NY Post.

Bratton's fascination with cops put him on a path that repeatedly brought him back to New York — where he'll work again following his appointment Thursday as the 42nd commissioner of the NYPD, his second stint in the position.

«It's a political equation,» said Eugene O'Donnell, a John Jay College of Criminal Justice lecturer who worked in the past as a cop and a prosecutor.

Connellan, 50, police department spokesman and leader of the gang task force, falsified hundreds of timesheets claiming he was working for the state when, in fact, he was on - duty as a cop, Scott said in a news release.

City Hall sources point to the mayor's plaudits of individual heroic cops, his framing of the conversation around wearing body cameras as a positive for officers, and his work to put more cops on the streets to civilianization.

A team effort with longtime friend Romano would result in the straight - to - video comedy Grilled in 2006, with subsequent voice work in the animated family comedies Monster House and Barnyard arriving in theaters later that same year.James would maintain his position as a go - to guy for family friendly comedy over the coming years, appearing in films like I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Grown Ups, and Zookeeper and providing a voice in Hotel Transylvania.

Top notch film - making from first to last as three cops work to unravel a bloody crime spree that even leaves dead policemen in it's wake.

Bad Cop / Good Cop is a rotating head figure that using the classic crime drama shtick in an attempt to breakdown Emmett; but seeing as how Emmett barley knows what is going on, the routine fails to work.

Damian Chapa stars as honest but financially strapped cop Angel Alvarez, who makes some quick money — but loses his soul — when he goes to work for a local gangster, Fernando.

Sutherland stars as Buster McHenry, a Philadelphia cop working undercover as a thief in the gang of wealthy, sadistic Marino (Rob Knepper).

Synopsis: The experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a cop from Nebraska, who worked as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and exposed a U.N. sex scandal that was co...

Throughout the»90s Gleason continued to work steadily as a character actor appearing in films as diverse as National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, Running Cool, Maniac Cop 3, and Nothing to Lose.

By that point, the film was almost a decade old (I wasn't even born when it opened in June 1988), part of the Golden Age of Murphy's Hollywood career that included works such as 48 Hrs., Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop.

But Cop isn't the only one chasing Driver; Killer (played by Jackson - Cohen), a self - made millionaire - businessman who works as a hit man on the side just for the fun of it, also accepts the task of hunting Driver down as his last job.

Ben Mendelsohn, now typecast as the shifty working class goon, plays strong support, as does his Killing Them Softly co-star Ray Liotta as a vengeful crooked cop.

You can see how all that plays out in the first Sleepless trailer that debuted last fall, but now a clip from the movie has debuted, showing us the tense, cheeky relationship that Jamie Foxx has with Michelle Monaghan, who works in internal affairs and has no idea that Foxx is just pretending to be a corrupt cop as part of his job, and isn't actually as bad as some of his colleagues.

Smartly - directed action picture stars Jeff Wincott as a cop who risks it all to stop a group of dirty policemen who have worked out a look - the - other - way deal with a drug czar.

One day, while about to get caught in the middle of pulling the same job in the same place twice, another bigger fish named Marcos (Darin, The Secret in Their Eyes) saves his hide by posing as a cop, and later makes him an offer to work as his partner in the game.

That chiseled face made him convincing as both a working class cop and a master of industry and paired nicely with Tierney's sculptured features: scar tissue and smooth glamour brought together by violence.

As the months stretch on, Phil (Wilson) attends a grief support group and works with his fellow cops on the case, but Sarah (Wilde) disintegrates, becoming obsessed with neglected kids at the school where she teaches, and making increasingly dangerous choices.

LA Noir stars Jon Bernthal as Joe Teague, an ex-Marine now working as an LAPD cop in an era rampant with police corruption.

This one appears to be full of double crossing since it features Foxx playing an undercover detective named Vincent Downs, posing as a corrupt cop, who gets the raw end of a bad deal when his son is kidnapped by one of the gangsters (Scoot McNairy) Downs has been working with.

While far from perfect and falling into the expected predictable and trite storyline we've seen before in dozens of other buddy cop movies, «Ride Along 2» certainly works as a broad comedy.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

Matthew McConaughey is perfectly cast as a sadistic dallas cop who works as a hit man in «Killer Joe», but at some point I found myself curiously disengaged from this story and didn't care what happened to everyone involved in it.

Final Victory was written by Wong Kar - wai, one of the last screenplays he wrote before his 1988 directorial debut As Tears Go By, and in this intersection of genre film and full - blown romance, it is consistent with his later works, where the primal DNA of films like Days of Being Wild, Fallen Angels and even Chungking Express can be found in Hong Kong cop / gangster sagas (As Tears Go By is explicitly a Triad film).

A chance at romance pops up in the form of Michael McKean (as the father of a friend) and then J.K. Simmons as Zipper, a retired cop working as a security guard.

Meanwhile, another local kid born into a troubled crime family, Billy Costigan (DiCaprio, Catch Me If You Can), also tries to put his past behind him by becoming a cop, but he is quickly tagged and sent to do undercover work as a mole for the police force, working his way up the criminal ladder until he finally arrives as part of Costello's inner sanctum.

That hunt is complicated by Hardy's cop being vilified for his wife's supposed activities as a spy, though trying to make heads or tails of the various plot strands running throughout Daniel Espinosa's film requires significant detective work, so muddied is this grim, grimy saga's storytelling.

He has the type of voice that screams «authority figure» and as such, he has mostly played cops and lawyers in his past series (almost always just for one episode), although he has worked in some criminal roles, as well.

Obviously feeling blue about robbing Denzel Washington for «Malcolm X,» the Academy made it up to him with an Oscar for his work as the corrupt and evil cop in «Training Day.»

This was a heroic action, yet in the movie there's something unnerving about this man, and the main thing is that he's played by Michael Shannon, a character actor who specializes in wild - eyed zeal, whether he's saving cops in World Trade Center, attempting to work as a punk - rock Svengali in The Runaways, hunting down Superman in Man Of Steel, or warning his community about the coming apocalypse in Take Shelter.

Similar to «Hot Fuzz» and «Shaun of the Dead,» each of which works as a genre film (buddy cop for «Hot Fuzz» and zombie movie for «Shaun of the Dead») and a send - up of the genre itself, «You're Next» is a smartly devised horror movie masquerading as a really dumb one.

Frank is feisty, hard - working and intense, but he's got weaknesses aplenty: he drinks too much, as does his elderly father (William Hickey), he's sick of his job, and his ex-wife left him to hook up with his fellow cop, Gruber (Richard Jenkins).

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang works as a buddy cop picture, a noir, and a straight - up comedy.

Unbeknownst to the guys in the neighborhood he grew up with, Terry has pent the last several years as a cop, and is now working undercover to crack down on the organized crime element that they are mostly composed of.

As for what does work, there's plenty of winning banter among the cops, and a couple of funny gags, including just about everything Brian Cox does on screen.

Once more, Katz works with a kinetic and inspired cast, featuring Game of Thrones hunk Nikolaj Coster - Waldau as the ex-cop Joe Denton, veteran heavies Robert Forster and Jacki Weaver as a very bewildered Mr. and Mrs. Denton, House of Cards heroine Molly Parker as an all - too - forgivable nurse, an ever - reliable Blair as an all - too - gullible friend, a supremely terrifying Healy as a mob boss» dickhead son, and the one and only Gary Cole as a dirty cop trying to cover his dirty ass.

If he isn't playing a knowingly extraverted weirdo, it's not going to work, as Tracy Morgan's character could never be believable enough as a cop, a boyfriend, a partner, or even just a normal guy — all things he is supposed to represent in Cop Ocop, a boyfriend, a partner, or even just a normal guy — all things he is supposed to represent in Cop OCop Out.

Glenn Ford is a cop working against his corrupt department, but the parts youíll remember from the film all belong to Gloria Grahame in a supporting role as a beaten - up gangsterís moll.

But even these crutches aren't funny anymore, as tired as everything else in this homage to 80s cop films that is neither consistent enough to work as a satire, nor focused enough to work as a rehash.

Glenn Ford is a cop working against his corrupt department, but the parts you'll remember from the film all belong to Gloria Grahame in a supporting role as a beaten - up gangster's moll.