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Gang unit's main fight
By Brian McGrory, Globe Columnist | April 8, 2007
"It's a little after 6 on a gloomy Friday night when police Commissioner Edward F. Davis and Mayor Thomas M. Menino walk into a small meeting room at the Police Department's gang - unit headquarters for the evening roll call.
About two dozen men, members of the gang unit, circled the small room...
They are the officers on the front lines in the city's battle against violence, the ones who stand closest to danger, and Davis wants to know what's on their minds...
One officer says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, he's seeing far fewer guns than during the violent stretch from the late 1980s into the early 1990s.
"There's more killing going on, but these are hits," the officer said. "There aren't more guns."
Davis quickly chimes in, "They are hits. They're very precise. It's not like there's a lot of random activity out there..."
Gang unit's main fight
By Brian McGrory, Globe Columnist | April 8, 2007
"It's a little after 6 on a gloomy Friday night when police Commissioner Edward F. Davis and Mayor Thomas M. Menino walk into a small meeting room at the Police Department's gang - unit headquarters for the evening roll call.
About two dozen men, members of the gang unit, circled the small room...
They are the officers on the front lines in the city's battle against violence, the ones who stand closest to danger, and Davis wants to know what's on their minds...
One officer says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, he's seeing far fewer guns than during the violent stretch from the late 1980s into the early 1990s.
"There's more killing going on, but these are hits," the officer said. "There aren't more guns."
Davis quickly chimes in, "They are hits. They're very precise. It's not like there's a lot of random activity out there..."