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Dennis J. Kearney '72 likes to talk tough, has a tough handshake, and has, since 1977, held one of the toughest jobs in the city of Boston, sheriff of Suffolk Country...
...interview last week, Kearney outlined a broad series of changes he will make in city government if he is elected come November, and described the strategy he will use to try to break out of the pack of contenders for the throne of King Kevin...
...four most important issues this year, Kearney says, are crime prevention, integrity and honesty in government, education, and municipal finance and taxation...
...issue of crime, Kearney asks, "How is it we've gone to foot patrols only in an election year? This is too important an issue to be politicized." He would like to make fire and police protection a priority in public spending and add police to the force...
...clean up City Hall, Kearney says he will install an office of internal affairs--much like a similar department he says cleaned up a sheriff's office plagued by corruption in the mid-seventies. In fact, it was the resignation of then-sheriff Thomas Eisenstadt in 1977 due to charges of corruption and misuse of office that brought Kearney to the Suffolk Country Courthouse in the first place...