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...FALLING FROM THE NEW YORK sky, but New York City police captain Thomas Lawrence looks as if he's been out in the sun too long. It's just past 7 on the third morning of the new year, and Lawrence, who runs the 10th Precinct in Midtown Manhattan, is standing on a podium in the command control center at police headquarters--the "war room." His face is bright red and a little clammy. His body is wired up tight. He is surrounded by sheaves of statistics, screens filled with computerized maps and charts and N.Y.P.D. bosses, who, amazingly, seem...
...this organization--a slim, well-tended man who wears his reading glasses slung low on an impressive nose--barely looks up from his papers. Police Commissioner William Bratton designed these Comstat (short for computer statistics) meetings as a way to make his 76 far-flung precinct commanders--and 38,000 cops--accountable for the crime rate. Nobody had ever done it before, and it's working: total felonies in New York City are down 27% in just two years, to levels not seen since the early 1970s...
Eleven counting stations are set up representing each of the city's 11 wards. The vote of each candidate is sorted and separated by precinct. By tomorrow evening, an "Unofficial First Count" tallying the number one votes for each candidate will be posted...
Spectators may lean against a railing to watch as Election Commissioners inspect and stamp each ballot by first choices and by precinct. The entire process is usually completed and published by Friday afternoon. Tallies are broken down by individual candidates and by precinct...
...former governor said political strength in upcoming national elections will lie in grassroot and precinct politics...