-Watched most of The Detective (Gordon Douglas, 1968) -- Frank Sinatra plays a proto-Serpico liberal cop doing battle with corruption and bigotry in NYPD. There is also shades of Fort Apache, The Bronx, and Assault on Precinct 13 with the police station becoming somewhat like the Alamo within a larger urban fabric of social breakdown, crisis. Sinatra makes a speech to the district commissioner about the ghetto re: doing something to curb the crisis instead of just managing it. An early case deals with a homosexual murder and Sinatra's tolerance is pitted against the other officer's disdain
-Read a little of Mark Seltzer's article in Urban Culture vol 4. on the relationship btw. the urban pathology of the serial killer and the domestic space in which his crimes are committed.
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