Cops vs. Cops

No matter how the lawsuits are resolved, patrol special Steve Russo and assistant Alan Stancombe have had enough. Steve Russo has left town for now, turning his beats over to a couple of other patrol specials. Stancombe has sold his interest in a beat he planned to buy and is taking the LSATs this summer; he may be attending law school in the fall.

Stancombe has no interest in becoming either a beat owner or a regular police officer, and voices disdain for the Police Commission and Geneva Towers affairs.

"When they take police officer power away from me," Stancombe says, "I'm not going to be a security guard.