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Violent Crime Drops in Baltimore as Police Narrow Focus, Target Guns
15 May 2010
Washington Post / AP
BALTIMORE -- In a blighted west Baltimore neighborhood, Lt. Ian Dombroski turns his unmarked police car around a corner and sees several men standing outside a liquor store. They scatter immediately.
Dombroski knows they're probably selling drugs, but he keeps driving. Five years ago, he said, officers who happened upon a similar scene wouldn't take such a selective approach.
"We'd all jump out, grab all the junkies, find out who had the drugs on 'em, lock 'em up, and... (GunPolicy.org)