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...movie follows three interwoven stories concerning a single Brooklyn police precinct situated in the most violent part of the borough, all of which come together in a violent conclusion. In a concurrent storyline, the NYPD attempts to regain the community’s trust after an officer from the precinct shoots and kills an honor student from the projects...
...data-driven policing, and when Bratton was promoted to police commissioner under New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 1994, his ideas went citywide. They evolved into CompStat, a real-time database of crime statistics and other intelligence useful for pinpointing trouble spots and targeting resources. CompStat put precinct captains and district commanders in the hot seat, and results followed. Crime plummeted. The city of fear became one of the safest major cities in America, and Commissioner Bratton landed on the cover of TIME...
...irate Israeli scholars, gouged out "several hundred" trucks' worth of debris, destroying evidence that might shed light on Judaism's holiest site. "This was politically motivated," fumes archaeologist Gabriel Barkay, who leads a team of volunteers that has spent years sifting through large mounds of material from the sacred precinct that was rescued from a city dump. "In places where you should have used a toothbrush, they used a bulldozer...
...Judaism? Palestinian historian and Waqf religious affairs archaeologist Yousef Natsheh believes so. He points out that one of the main triggers of the 2000 Palestinian uprising - which led to the deaths of more than 5,500 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis - was a visit to the Haram al-Sharif precinct by Sharon, then Israel's opposition leader, along with a phalanx of armed police. "The situation now is very, very tense," he warns...
Dukakis said he implemented the same technique of directly targeting voters while running for governor by appointing captains in every precinct to personally contact community members in his gubernatorial pursuits...