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Sr. Supt. Broaster Defends
Thu, September 18, 2014
And now, for two more news items on the police press conference. We know we've already done like ten of them, but it's very rare that we get a chance to grill the entire police command about crime. We're trying to understand, or to see if they understand what really drives crime - which brought us to the Not In My City operation. It was launched with much fanfare on August 12th. and was supposed to make September safe. But with last night's spree of shootings, we wondered, is it effective? Here's what Senior Superintendent Broaster said about it today:..

Jules Vasquez
"Are you concerned that this happened in the middle of an operation that you all I believe in the midst of a quite heavy operation with extra personnel and here you have this outburst of violence and there is no ability to contain it?"

Sr. Supt. Edward Broaster, Deputy Commander, Eastern Division
"Jules, there will always be incidents that occur in any time period or within any operation, but what we intend to do is to ensure that the escalation of this violence does not go any further. We will be implementing other measures that will mitigate the escalation of these violence very shortly."

Jules Vasquez
"I thought you were doing that with the "not in my city" operation."

Sr. Supt. Edward Broaster, Deputy Commander, Eastern Division
"As you notice we have been very successful since "not in my city" operation started. This spike in violence yesterday is one that we have thus contained and will surely de-escalate."

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