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...mother was trying to make a new start. She had a solid job at U-Haul and a duplex in a middle-class neighborhood. She recently told B.J.'s father that she "was finally getting somewhere in life." Patrolmen watched her place last year for a few days, but police say she called them off. It was intrusive and, she reportedly said, conspicuous. In the icy clime of Bridgeport, the coldest truth about these murders may be that there was little that could have been done to prevent them...
...Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, the largest city police union in New England, the Massachusetts Coalition of Police and the International Union of Police Associations endorsed Kerry earlier this year...
This is a significant departure from the service-oriented "community policing'' introduced during the Dinkins administration, when beat cops were encouraged to be problem solvers for a neighborhood. (Now the patrolmen funnel these issues to their precinct commanders.) The Bratton version of community policing is to devise strategies that target specific criminal behavior. Special squads are dispatched to hit high-crime hot spots, while others track down illegal guns. Precinct detectives now interrogate suspects not just about the crimes they may have committed but also about other gun and drug dealers they know. Eventually, Bratton believes, all the policies begin...
...severe curtailment of overtime hours for police officers. who call in sick won't be filled. Instead, patrolmen would cover twice the territory, slowing response times and possibly imperiling security in situations where there is more than one emergency on campus at the same at time...
...officers had storm helmets, most had gas masks. Patrolmen from Somerville carried large metal shields, and several from other forces carried rifles...