Police protection in D.C.: separate and unequal.
Washington Monthly › Vol. 27 Nbr. 3, March 1995
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Unfair police distribution in Washington D.C.
Highly equipped Secret Service police in Washington DC patrol the city's safest neighborhoods, while high crime areas have only poorly managed city police. An 8 mo pilot program that allowed the city to use federal police in bad areas reduced crime by 16%, but was scrapped due to disputes in Congress.See the full content of this document
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Police protection in D.C.: separate and unequal.
Washington's best cops patrol the city's safest neighborhoods
Every once in a while, from the window of Sgt. Brian Hubbard's police cruiser, you can catch a glimpse of the Capitol dome. Only a mile away, proudly lit, the immaculate marble looks like it's meant to--a monument to justice and power. But Hubbard has other things on his mind. He spots a group of young blacks sitting on milk crates and a pile of dirt in an abandoned lot, and he pulls up to tell them to move on. Near a cemetery, he interrupts a woman leaning into a gray, beat-up car and tells her to move on, too; he thinks she's a prostitute, he says, but there's no way he ca...See the full content of this document
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