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Curious all these paeans to cop shows. And a reminder maybe of the way TV can surgically remove people's critical faculties as surely most cop shows convey political or social agendas that are of a distinctly right wing character, such as the Hill Street Blues/NYPD family. Some of the British examples attempt artistic respectability, with squiggles of art-cinema camera angles (as in Inspector Morse) and play-length two hour slots. But the reality of them is that Britain still has a pool of repertory character actors who have sufficient skill to convey an illusion of psychology to parts that are little more than bundles of twitching stereotypes. David Bircumshaw Leicester, England A Chide's Alphabet www.chidesplay.8m.com Painting Without Numbers www.paintstuff.20m.com/default.htm http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default.htm