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I'm all yours, Leslie.

Questions and answers. Who's up?

- The Post.

- Marx or Sadler?

Sadler.

Then I know what's coming.

"Has probation become

a sentence in this town?"

Judge Stern has a powerful record.

He served six years and meted out

the stiffest punishments in the city.

If the report recommends probation,

then probation it has to be.

After that, they'll start in

on the mandatory crap.

Good morning.

I want to welcome the

Revs. Williams and Birch...

- You got the probation report?

- In the office.

I'll be there in a minute.

- And my dear friend

Reverend Milton Parks...

...of the First Church of Harlem...

...Reverend Chapman

and Reverend Murray.

Thank you

for coming here today.

I know it wasn't easy for you.

Well, what can I say?

How do I start this?

There is one thing, as mayor...

...that I will never get over...

...and that is the death

of a police officer.

There is one thing in life

that I will never get over...

...and that is the death

of an innocent child.

But this is an incident

that won't go away...

Tino Zapatti's probation report.

The whole city...

... all parts of the city...

... Bushwick, Jamaica,

Washington Heights...

... Brownsville, Harlem...

This thing looks okay.

Very okay. But

there is a conviction.

Criminal possession

in the fourth degree.

In the fourth degree. A 4-C.

It's a probational offense.

Practically a misdemeanor.

Kevin, there are 4-Cs,

and there are 4-Cs.

You keep looking at that

as if it weren't kosher.

A cut of meat is kosher.

A piece of fish...

...savory foods are kosher.

But a probation report is not kosher.

A probation report is merely

a probation report.

I am a good Louisiana

lapsed Catholic, Abe.

Don't talk to me about kosher.

Give it to me straight.

What's wrong with this?

It's too kosher.

Translate that for me.

The Virgin looks pregnant to me.

Look. The supervisor signed this.

So what?

That's a lot of weight for a 4-C.

So what happened...

...to the original

little probation officer?

Where is his signature?

Do you know this supervisor?

His name is Schwartz.

- A landsman of yours?

- Landsman...

...landsman.

Stop trying your Yiddish out on me.

You sound like a Shakespearean actor

from a Savannah pogrom.

- But do you know him?

- Sure. But the trial was 2 years ago.

I was long gone from the department.

Hello, Larry.

Good to see you.

This is Deputy Mayor Calhoun.

The first deputy mayor

to set foot on this floor.

We had a commissioner once,

but it was the wrong floor.

- May I have a seat?

- Please sit.

Abe, you're already at home here.

I think I know why you're here.

I've logged 12 calls already.

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