1.   After winning the Pulitzer, Forrest was snapped up by Newsday and assigned to the Nassau County police beat.

2.   Cornwell was assigned to the police beat, one of the most difficult and emotionally draining assignments at any major metropolitan newspaper.

3.   Gore had moved up from the police beat, and begun covering city hall and local politics.

4.   He briefly worked the night police beat, then spent three years as a sportswriter before returning to Style for another three.

5.   He continued at the paper on the police beat after his discharge.

6.   In his eight years at The Star, Groom worked the police beat, covered the courts and wrote features.

7.   She worked police beats, the Legislature, murder trials, tear-jerkers and Hollywood.

8.   Through the police beat, like John Miller of ABC News, who spent years covering the mafia for New York television stations.

9.   Two years of news reporting on the police beat filled me with wonder at the connubial murder rate.

10.   When I covered the police beat, I sometimes had to call relatives and friends of people who had just died, often in some horrible accident or tragedy.