Boston has already exceeded last year's murder tally. Leadership matters and affirmative action gets people killed.
The NYT had a beautiful article on a NYC precinct yesterday. I loved the unmarked anti-crime unit "Taxicab" vehicle for the precinct. As if that doesn't stand out after awhile. Mostly good stuff. It made the lesbian lieutenant appear a bit unprofessional though, and that's probably not going to be good for her career.
On another note:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-cop09.html
An officer in Chicago gets killed by a drunken driver on saturday night at 5:45 AM in a completely psycho area where there are probably 30 officers on the overnight shift. A friend emails me to note that this is the second time this (drunk driver, dead officer) has happened in this district, on this watch, in 6 years. How ya like them odds?
