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...last few hours before the poll closings, the after-work turnout in Montreal itself turned the city into a kind of campaigning pandemonium, with long waits at the polls that are extraordinary and unprecedented in a country that has been used to 85 percent turnouts in precinct elections," McWhirter reports. "At Eddie O'Sullivan College in downtown Montreal, police cars diverted a full block of honking traffic so that voters could stand in freezing sleet waiting to take a number and go inside. They're being cheered on by passers-by just to give them a little solidarity in these...
...Envy and Wrath). Sommerset and Mills start on the first case, Gluttony, together. They find the most obese man they have ever seen ("Somebody call Guinness," says Mills) dead at his dinner table. He has been forced to eat himself to death. It sounds farfetched. It isn't. Their precinct captain wants them to investigate as a team, but Sommerset quickly pulls the plug. He has had a premonition, and not only does he not want to be involved in the case, he doesn't want Mills on it either...
...movie Fort Apache, The Bronx, starring Paul Newman, takes place in the police precinct where I lived. In the movie, the neighborhood is depicted as an urban sinkhole, block after block of burned-out tenements, garbage-strewn streets and weed-choked lots, populated by gangs, junkies, pimps, hookers, maniacs, cop killers and third-generation welfare families. That is not quite the Hunts Point I was raised in, although it was hardly elm trees and picket fences. We kept our doors and windows locked. I remember a steel rod running from the back of our front door to a brace...
...keystone of the strategy is to make each of the city's 76 precinct commanders directly responsible for keeping the peace in a well-defined area--formerly the beat officers' job. When Captain Jose Cordero of the 40th precinct in the South Bronx learned that shootings in his precinct had edged up 15% earlier this year, for example, he authorized sweeping searches of housing projects and mailboxes, two common hiding places for guns and drugs. By blocking off streets, officers denied potential drug buyers access to the neighborhood. The result: a 22% drop in shootings over the next two months...
...executive director of the Christian Coalition, Reed is master of a much more powerful and effective machine than is almost any presidential candidate. By mobilizing eager volunteers down to the precinct (and local church) level and handing out 33 million voter guides -- often in church pews -- prior to last November's election, the Coalition is credited with providing the winning margin for perhaps half the Republicans' 52-seat gain in the House of Representatives and a sizable portion of their nine-seat pickup in the Senate. As a result, Ralph Reed is the man to see among Republican lawmakers...