Angie Dickinson

When Angie Dickinson is clicking through TV channels these days and she sees Kyra Sedgwick playing Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on TNT’s “The Closer,” she smiles. “It feels like seeing one of my children,” Dickinson says. Okay, as it happens, Sedgwick recently had Dr.  

“I’m proud of what we did,” and there’s no denying that of all the traditional male TV bastions that women have infiltrated, police departments are among the most visible. They’re almost as visible as news anchor seats, and the ...