To the Editor: The way the eight NYC Democratic mayoral candidates danced around the conflicting issues of police crime-fighting on one hand and racial profiling and excessive force on the other, I thought I was watching the political version of the moves of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers or the Nicholas Brothers.
Bill Bratton, Jack Maple and John Timoney proved that in order to reduce crime dramatically, the police have to be proactive, they have to focus on criminal patterns, and plainclothes officers are absolutely necessary. Furthermore, the "Broken Windows" strategy of making arrests for minor offenses, especially subway fare-beating, is necessary to prevent more serious crimes and reassure the law-abiding and vulnerable public.
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