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a quick note on policing
Chicago is finally on the right track, although far more needs to be done to bring the number down to the range of NYC etc.... So far, January looks like its down 30% or so from last year's homicides.
On an entirely different note, Bostonians should thank former Commissioner Evans if they should ever run into him. The world knows he was world-class, and showed its approval by giving him the top job in the British Home Office's best-practices group, which is sort of like a standard setting body for best-practices worldwide.
And how does his acting replacement stack up? After the SuperBowl, there were less than 60 crowd control officers on the streets with crowd control duties. The narcotics units and one of the mass-response units was on standby, but otherwise performing their normal duties (narcotics and, I suspect, bad neighborhood saturation). The acting replacement was apparently at home phoning it in. In the past few years, every city that has won a championship, including Boston, has seen widescale, or at least mass, disturbances and violence following the championship game. The way 1 newspaper report put it was that the championship game response plan in Boston was 15 pages long (or something like that) while the championship parade the next day was more than 50 pages long (or something like that) with far more officers dedicated to the event.
As I understand it, the actions of the acting replacement are beyond unfathomable. They are truly unexplainable, repugnant, negligent, and horrifying. But hey, the guy doesn't have much experience running the show.
So I'm just saying, if anyone ever sees Evans, please just say something nice. Boston is gonna miss him.
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