The new blue

摘要

RAHM EMANUEL, soon to be sworn in as Chicago's new mayor, is making crime a priority. He wants to put1,000 more officers on the streets. He wants to tackle youth violence; nearly half of the victims of last year's 436 murders were between 10 and 25 years old. And he wants to shake up a police department that is demoralised and in need of change. So on May 2nd he tapped Garry McCarthy (pictured), Newark's police director, as the city's new top cop. Mr McCarthy's track record is excellent. Five years ago some police stations in Newark, New Jersey's biggest city, did not even have a computer. Many officers worked only on weekdays, heading home at 5pm. The police department did not have a centralised narcotics division because of fears of police corruption.