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CRIME FIGHTING
    On the issue of crime, Hull wants police to crack down on quality-oflife crimes.
    “I operate on the broken window theory. You deal with the small things, like graffiti, as quick as you can,” Hull said.
    The police also need more help, he said, so he wants to reduce administrative tasks so that assistant chiefs and other top brass can spend more time in the fi eld.
    “We have to have more boots on the ground,” Hull said.
    He also wants auxiliary police to watch the camera feeds from dozens of security cameras placed around the city. Those are rarely watched now, but police use the footage to help capture suspects after a crime.
    He also wants to heavily advertise the police department’s tips line and offer rewards.
    McCarthy wants to improve response times and “solve rates” by making the department’s current rates public.
    “Things that are measured tend to improve,” McCarthy said. “I expect the police to be more results oriented.”
    He also wants police to be far more public, making the public a “full partner in our crime-fi ghting efforts.”
    “We’re sometimes overly protective. Whether it’s graffi ti, whether it’s car larcenies, we hold the information internally,” he said. “You might be better off letting people know what’s going on. You may have seen something last night that in your mind was insignifi cant, but you don’t know that three cars a block over were vandalized.”

I suppose offering rewards as Hull proposes might be a way to get around the "no snitching" that is often the mind set in some neighborhoods.

It sounds like Hull thinks that the cops should get out and work, not just the lowest paid ones. They will likely fight him on this.
There is also a problem in the district attorney's office, which the cops have no say over. How many times have we seen an article in the paper where someone commits a crime, the cops do their job and arrest him, only to see the same character back on the streets committing more of the same type of crime shortly afterward? I'm not sure what the mayor's office can do about a separately elected official's office, but I'm hoping if Hull gets in he will look at what's going on.