For the past several months the Chicago police have been scrambling to polish their image. Each week, it seems, there are new reports of everything from brutality to deficient officer training. Of late, though, the cops are showing a softer side. Even the Chicago Tribune, which had published a series of negative reports about the department, last week featured the men and women in blue waxing poetic about the beat under soft light at a South Side precinct.
The idea for "Take 5," as it is called, came from Sergeant Regina Evans, who was looking for a nontraditional way to...
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