My Rating
“One Slip”
The evening finds Officers Caruso and Donnegan chasing two assailants through a playground near FDR Drive. The men were caught trying to rape a local woman. One of the attackers grabbed the victim’s fourteen-month-old baby to use the child as a hostage. With gun drawn, Jack Caruso begins negotiations with the cornered Skell. The lowlife is given two choices: hand over the child or wait for the police backup and risk being shot.
The next day finds multiple police officers from the 8th Precinct at a familiar apartment complex known as the “Loose Carnations”. Inside Nick and Maureen find an active crime scene investigation. In the upstairs apartment, Luis and Carmen Ruiz — the couple who had been fighting each other over the past couple of weeks, were found in the apartment bathroom. Both are laying dead in the filled bathtub from electrocution. Officer Sears deducts that Carmen had dropped a plugged-in television set into the bathwater, attempting to kill her husband. It appeared that Luis grabbed her in the death struggle pulling her into the water as well. Kill both in the heinous act. The officers wait for CSI to arrive to confirm their suspicions.
Later in the day Officers Heinzucker and Dooley walk in on a 10-31 reported earlier. When they arrived at the scene the men find a low-rent Brownstone breeched from the. The two officers enter the building, but not to investigate, rather they are there to search of leftovers. It has been rumored over the years of the two taking bribes, shaking down drug dealers, and stealing Rookie’s collars. Now it appears Heinzucker and Dooley have graduated to crime scene tampering.
Has Detective Paddy McGopolan finally received enough evidence to charge Judith Bitterman of the Lower East Side Community Action Spearhead in the Eviscerator Slayings? Will Gladys press charges against Felix and Reubin for multiple assaults? Is Heinzucker and Dooley’s burglary scene legit or a elaborate setup by the Police Internal Affairs department? Collect the series to find out!
Reviewer Notes
I guess I should have stated up front in my previous reviews that this series is not for children. If “Cops: The Job” was a move franchise, I imagine would either be rated with a NC-17 or R rating. With that being said, the call log gets even darker in this issue. The officers of the 8th Precinct run into rape, murder/suicide, and even police corruption. All of it ends in a surprise that I won’t ruin for future readers of this mini-series.
There isn’t much more I can say about this series than I already have in past reviews. Joe Jusko and Larry Hama do an excellent job portraying the real life of a New York police officers working in the early 1990s. In the “Letters to the Editor” section, several police officers writing into to praise the series for trying to be as accurate as possible. I’m no cop but I would agree. I’m giving issue number three of “Cops: The Job” five out of five stars.
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