Fort Apache, the Bronx - Corruption and Apathy in the Police Force
Connolly:
Your Precinct has the worst absentee record in the city, the most disability claims, the highest percentage of men on sick call, the least convictions per arrest, and you want me to believe there are no men on the take!
Dugan:
So they toss a numbers runner for a couple of dollars, turn a pimp upside down for a little loose change, there's nobody getting rich up here.
Connolly:
There's nobody doing anything up here that I can see, these men aren't motivated.
Dugan:
Motivated? This is Siberia, Connolly. 65% of the men up here have been transferred. We've got the connivers, the slobs, the shirkers, guys who beat up the wrong Guinea. Gave a diplomat a parking ticket, screwed a big mouth hooker or shook down the wrong peddler.
Connolly:
There are plenty of good police officers under your command. You're the one that's falling down on the job.
Dugan:
Yeah that's right. Blame Dugan! Sure let the politicians and everyone else off the hook, blame Dugan, that's the easy way. You got a 40-block area with 70,000 people packed in like sardines smelling each others farts living like cockroaches, and that's Dugan's fault. You got the lowest income per capita, the highest rate of unemployment in the city and that's my fault! Why aren't I out there getting all these people jobs? Largest proportion of non-English speaking population in the city! Dugan's fault, why aren't he out there teaching them to speak English? 4% Spanish speaking cops on the force! Hey Dugan, get your ass out in the barrio and recruit! Families that have been on welfare for three or four generations. Youth Gangs. Winos. Junkies. Pimps! Hookers. Maniacs. Cop-killers...
Connolly:
You finished?
Dugan:
Yeah, I'm finished. I'm goin to Florida, Connelly. I'm goin fishin'. So you can bring up all your computers and your slide rules and all your psychological techniques. I mean this neighborhood'll bury ya. There's enough dirt in this precinct to bury every smart-ass cop in the city!
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Dog Day Afternoon - The Challenges of Employment and Crime
Sonny:
I'm robbing a bank because they got money here. That's why I'm robbing it.
Anchorman:
No, what I mean is why do you feel you have to steal for money? Couldn't you get a job?
Sonny:
Uh, no. Doing what? You know if you want a job you've got to be a member of a union. See, and if you got no union card you don't get a job.
Anchorman:
What about non-union occupations?
Sonny:
What's wrong with this guy? What do you mean non-union, like what? A bank teller? You know how much a bank teller makes a week? Not much. A hundred and fifteen to start, right? Now are you going to live on that? A got a wife and a couple of kids, how am I going to live on that? What do you make a week?
Anchorman:
Well I'm here to talk to you, Sonny...
Sonny:
Well I'm talking to you. We're entertainment, right? What do you got for us?
Anchorman:
Well, what do you want to get for it? Do you expect to be paid because...
Sonny: [[w:As the World Turns|As the World Turns]
No, I don't want to be paid, I don't need to be paid. Look, I'm here with my partner and nine other people, see. And we're dying, man. You know? You're going to see our brains on the sidewalk, they're going to spill our guts out. Now are you going to show that on television? Have all your housewives look at that? Instead of ]? I mean what do you got for me? I want something for that.
Anchorman:
Sonny, you could give up.
Sonny:
Give up? Right. Have you ever been in prison?
Anchorman:
No!
Sonny:
No! Well. let's talk about something you fucking know about, okay? How much do you make a week? That's what I want to hear. Are you going to talk to me about that?
Anchorman:
Sorry, this has been interrupted.
Sonny:
Hey, what the fuck happened?
Mulvaney:
I guess he didn't appreciate your use of language.
Sonny:
Fuck him.
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Dog Day Afternoon - Conflict Over Alarm and Morality
Sonny:
Hey, wait a minute, what are you trying to do? Trip the alarm? Use the spare key?
Mulvaney:
It must have been on my mind.
Sonny:
Well, you'll get your mind right. I'm a Catholic, and I don't want to hurt anybody, understand?
Mulvaney:
Yes, sir.
Sonny:
No alarms! No alarms!
Mulvaney:
Okay.
Sonny:
No games, alright? Use the other one.
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