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Bridge': It Takes a Chief From 'Battlestar' to Link Both Sides
of the Badge  Today's cuppa: Breakfast blend coffee, mmmm,
smooth ...  Here's the full text of my feature story from this
week on the new CBS police drama ...
The_Bridge_Aaron_Douglas_1.jpgBeing a police officer may be a
calling for some, but it is also a job -- a union job. And where
there are unions, there are the bosses and the rank and file;
there are negotiations and disputes and sometimes a strike.
And there is always a police officer whose extra job it is to
stand in the middle of all that, to bridge the gap between the
officers and the men, between the police and the people, and
between the police and one another.   With a two-hour episode on
Saturday, July 10, CBS premieres the Canadian-produced drama
"The Bridge," loosely based on the life of Toronto radio
personality Craig Bromell, who also used to be head of the
Toronto police union from 1997 to 2003 and is an executive prod