The NYPD's Newest Comms Coach Is...Patrick Swayze?

Nobody puts the public in a corner.

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No one puts Bodhi in the corner

Few actors ruled the 80’s like Patrick Swayze.

The star of Ghost, Dirty Dancing, and Point Break died tragically of pancreatic cancer in 2009, but his legacy lives on in dance halls, high school reunions, and … the New York Police Department?!

New York’s finest needed some help in terms of relating to its public…and then someone remembered “a skinny little runt named Dalton.”

road house 2The movie from which that quote and so many more like it hail is the 1989 machismo flick Road House.

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