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...first moves may have been his best. Realizing he didn't have much experience as a prosecutor, he brought in one of Southern New York U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani's stars from across the river, Michael Chertoff, to serve as his top deputy. Together they decided to shift the office's priorities, going after fewer small drug deals and focusing more on public corruption and Mob cases. "We both agreed we should avoid a lot of rinky-dink cases," Chertoff, who is now the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, told TIME. The result was that Alito prosecuted far fewer drug cases...
...9/11 commission assailed DHS for doling out money with little regard to risk-resulting in Wyoming getting far more antiterrorism funding per person than New York. (See TIME?s investigation " How We Got Homeland Security Wrong," March 29, 2004). Since he took over as secretary in February 2005, Chertoff has promised to be smarter...
...Chertoff is claiming that the formula is much better. ?It?s going to be more robust, it?s going to be more precise,? he said. So this year, 35 metropolitan areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, will get some portion of the total $765 million. Most of those cities got money last year, too. Only Memphis, Tenn., is new to the list. But 11 areas that got money in 2005 are now essentially on probation; they will get more funding only if they convince DHS that they need more money to finish projects they?ve already started...
...tuning,? says Tim Ransdell, executive director of the California Institute for Federal Policy Research, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. ?This was risk-based all along. Maybe now it?s a little more risk-based, maybe not.? Now, as always, the formula is a secret. We just know what Chertoff told us: that it takes into account the threats and vulnerabilities facing a given city, in addition to the consequences of a possible attack. We have no idea why Phoenix and Las Vegas are now on probation and could lose funding altogether-while Milwaukee and Indianapolis remain in good standing...
...Chertoff will soon have another chance to prove himself-when he announces how DHS will allocate the rest of its homeland security funding to states for 2006. Congress has once again mandated that each state get a baseline amount, whether it needs it or not. But DHS has significant discretion to spend the rest more wisely. In other words, revolution...