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Coverage of the original impertinent comments eclipsed a summer filled with positive news for the department's crime-fighting efforts. Rape is down 36 percent so far this year. There are fewer robberies, fewer assaults, and no murders. Street robberies, long a thorn in the side of patrol officers, were down 16 percent through June...
...Watson, entering his third year as Cambridge's top cop, is no more popular elsewhere--not with most city officials, not with some residents, and not even with many of his patrol officers...
First, Watson has, according to both patrol officers and Cambridge political officials, been at odds with his top supervisors since he became commissioner in 1996. Though Watson has been an effective manager, his style has clashed with the old guard at the department. Worse, according to some, is that Watson never developed rapport with his patrol officers, due in part to his stormy relationship with the Cambridge Police Patrol Officer's Union...
...Community policing," the department's focus on quality-of-life issues, has been the core of Watson's plan of action. But he and his senior staff have repeatedly butted heads with the patrol officer's union over the best way for it to work...
...Hurricane Floyd turns more than 2 million Americans into refugees and killer mosquitoes patrol the New York skies, we don?t need the U.N. to tell us something is seriously wrong with the environment. But the Geo2000 report released Wednesday by the U.N. Environmental Program has some bad news for anyone who believes they?re saving the planet simply by recycling their trash and voting for politicians who get dewy-eyed about nature: Much of the damage to the planet is irreversible; we?re under increasing threats of flooding, plagues, drought and famine; and ? the hardest part...