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Screen cops once were dull pencil-pushers. Then Regan and Carter kicked the doors in, and TV – and policing itself – would never be the same

The self-described ‘people’s policeman’ backed penal labour camps and proposed that violent criminals be flogged until they begged for mercy

As longtime president of Mount Holyoke College, Mary Woolley helped to transform university education for women in the United States. In a new production of “Bull in a China Shop,” the Performing Arts Department will explore Woolley’s groundbreaking career and her decades-long relationship with Jeannette Marks, chair of Mount Holyoke’s English department.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The tenure of Dick, of whom we hoped better, has been an unmitigated shambles following the disgraceful Bernard Hyphen-Howe years.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: After five ignominious years as Britains top police officer, Cressida Dick has dramatically resigned as the Met Commissioner.

The structural and cultural challenges that have long plagued the Met Police will take more than a new commissioner to solve.

There was precedent for a commissioner determined to root out misbehaviour. Failure to follow it cost her the top job, says former Guardian crime reporter Sandra Laville

PLAQUEMINE - A former East Baton Rouge school administrator was sentenced to life in prison for killing a teacher who was pregnant with his child back in 2016.

NEIL DARBYSHIRE: Do these hard-pressed footsoldiers have the quality of leadership and supervision they deserve? As events of the past few days vividly demonstrate, the answer is no.

The purpose of any kind of punishment is to offer specific and general deterrence to future criminal and or delinquent activities.