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He said that “the dynamics of the shootings” this year have also been different. Usually, and as was the case last summer, the city encounters a series of related “retaliatory” shootings in which perpetrators attack each other, Haas said.
Haas said the police department has taken measures to ensure residents’ safety, including bolstering regular walking patrols and deploying supplemental bike patrols.
“There’s the notion that the police can do it all, but that’s erroneous. Without the partnership of the community, it makes it very difficult to prevent or stop crime from happening,” Haas said.
Pasquarello, the police spokesman, said he suspects this kind of violence would decrease if convicted perpetrators could be retained in jail indefinitely, rather than be released to become repeat offenders. He said that the people involved in the recent incidents were “not strangers” to the...
But Haas added that he is not sure if this was a major factor in this year’s flare-up of violence, and also pointed out that maintaining enough prisons, which are often already overcrowded, can be expensive and impractical.