Fire Marshals Score Television
Peter Lynch, chief fire marshal of Nassau County, N. Y., and Martin Scott, chief fire marshal of New York City, criticized television programming at a forum on “The Problem of Arson,” sponsored by the Manhattan College Institute for Forensic Research for 200 members of the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Conference, at Manhattan College on last November 7.
Marshal Lynch said that for all the good it has done, “television is the worst thing that ever happened to our children.” He mentioned “death, suffering, sadism, and brutality” as subjects which are treated with callous indifference, and that judges, lawyers and law enforcement officers are too often portrayed as “dishonest, incompetent and stupid.”
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